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Katharine Ross
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If there was no other credit in her filmography, Ross would forever be remembered for her role as Elaine Robinson, the object of Benjamin Braddock's romantic obsession in The Graduate (1967). Her look was just right for this role: cool and pretty, detached but not so much so that only the Campus Jock could win her. This performance earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination and thrust her into the spotlight. She'd already appeared in Shenandoah The Singing Nun (both 1965), and Mister Buddwing (1966), and was window dressing in John Wayne's action saga Hellfighters (1969). She then played third fiddle to Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (also 1969), and Robert Blake's girlfriend in Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (also 1969), but her budding stardom diminished during the 1970s. Among her credits: Fools (1970), Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972), The Stepford Wives (1975), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Swarm, The Betsy (both 1978), The Final Countdown (1980), Wrong Is Right (1982), and Red-Headed Stranger (1986). Her career took an upturn at the time of her marriage to actor Sam Elliott; they have appeared together in The Legacy (1979), Murder in Texas (1981, TV movie), Louis L'Amour's "The Shadow Riders" (1982, made for TV), and Travis McGee (1983, made for TV), and produced the telefilm adaptation of Louis L'Amour's Conagher (1991) in which they starred. |
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