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Ali MacGraw

  • Born: Apr 01, 1938 in Pound Ridge, New York
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '70s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Drama, War
  • Career Highlights: Just Tell Me What You Want, Love Story, The Getaway
  • First Major Screen Credit: Goodbye, Columbus (1969)

Biography

The daughter of artists, actress Ali MacGraw prepared for an art career of her own at Wellesley College. At 22, MacGraw entered the world of high fashion as assistant editor at Harper's Bazaar and went on to work as a photographer's assistant, at least until someone decided that her looks were far too dazzling to be kept behind the camera. Before long, she was adorning magazine covers worldwide and appearing in TV commercials (she's the beach girl in the "Polaroid Swinger" camera ads of the mid-'60s). After an unremarkable movie debut in 1968, she became a full-fledged star in 1969's Goodbye Columbus. Perhaps no one was more impressed by MacGraw's charms than Paramount executive Robert Evans, who fell in love with her and began guiding the destinies of her career (Evans became MacGraw's second husband in 1971). Her next film role was unquestionably the best: Jenny Cavilleri, the charmingly foul-mouthed, slowly dying heroine of the 1970 smash hit Love Story, which earned her an Oscar nomination. Evans continued promoting MacGraw's career even after she'd left him in favor of actor Steve McQueen, whom she'd met while filming Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway (1973), and to whom she was married from 1973 to 1978. After losing the role of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (1974) to Mia Farrow, MacGraw took a four-year sabbatical from films. Her 1978 comeback picture was Convoy, which reunited her with Sam Peckinpah; inspired by a CB radio craze, the film was regarded as a great step backward for all concerned. After playing Alan King's long-suffering lady friend in Just Tell Me What You Want, MacGraw confined her infrequent acting appearances to the small screen. She was briefly a regular as Lady Ashley Mitchell on the weekly Dynasty, and starred in the miniseries The Winds of War (1983) and China Rose (1985). MacGraw also appeared in the TV movies Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (1992), playing a character named Uncle Jane, and Natural Causes (1994). In 1991, Ali MacGraw published Moving Pictures, her autobiography. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

 
 
Wikipedia: Ali MacGraw
Ali MacGraw
Birth name Alice MacGraw
Born April 1 1938 (1938--) (age 69)
Flag of New York Pound Ridge, New York
Spouse(s) Steve McQueen (August 31 1973–1978) (divorced)
Robert Evans (October 24 1969–1972) (divorced) 1 child

Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1938 in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe award winning American actress.

Biography

Youth

Born to an Irish-American father, whom she recently described as "violent" [1] and a Jewish mother, she has one sibling, a brother.

Career

An alumna of Wellesley College, she began working in 1960 as a photographic assistant at Harper's Bazaar, as an assistant to the legendary fashion maven, Diana Vreeland, at Vogue, and as a fashion model, and as a photographer's stylist. She gained notice in Goodbye, Columbus, but real stardom came in 1970 with Love Story. MacGraw's keen eye and sense of style was celebrated on the cover of Time. Her minimalist style basically consisted of healthy skin without much makeup, long gleaming hair pulled back simply, and the ever-present brimless woolen hat that became known as the "Ali Cap." She has also worked as an interior decorator.

MacGraw has appeared in other films, such as: Convoy, Players, Just Tell Me What You Want and the television miniseries China Rose and The Winds of War. In 1985, MacGraw appeared in the hit ABC prime time soap opera Dynasty as "Lady Ashley Mitchell."

MacGraw wrote a well-received autobiography, Moving Pictures (which she now states was "not well written"), which described her struggles with alcohol and male dependence. She was treated for the former at the Betty Ford Center. In 1991, People magazine chose her as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.

She had lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico for many years after "fleeing Malibu". Having become a Hatha Yoga devotee in her fifties, she made a tremendously successful Yoga video with the American Yoga Master Erich Schiffmann, Ali MacGraw Yoga Mind and Body, which was a bestseller upon release and was still popular more than a decade later. The video's impact was such that in June 2007 Vanity Fair magazine credited her for being one of the people responsible for the practice's recent popularity in the United States. In keeping with her interests, she narrated a well-received documentary on Yoga, The Fire of Yoga in 2003.

She made her Broadway theatre debut in New York City in 2006 as a dysfunctional matriarch in the drama Festen (The Celebration). She was also included in a Seventeen magazine issue for inspiring hairstyles.

Personal life

On October 24, 1969, she married film producer Robert Evans; their son, Josh Evans, is an actor and producer. They divorced in 1972 after she became involved with Steve McQueen on the set of The Getaway, whom she then married on August 31, 1973 and divorced in 1978.

When her ex-husband, Robert Evans, received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame she accompanied him.

She divided her time living in her homes in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Los Angeles, California.

Academy Award Nomination

Ali MacGraw was unsuccessfully nominated for :

1970 Best Actress - Love Story

She lost to Glenda Jackson who won that year for Women in Love.

References

  1. ^ (New York magazine, April 3, 2006, pp. 69-70),

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Awards
Preceded by
Geneviève Bujold
for Anne of the Thousand Days
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1971
for Love Story
Succeeded by
Jane Fonda
for Klute


Persondata
NAME MacGraw, Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacGraw, Alice
SHORT DESCRIPTION Actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1 April, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Pound Ridge, New York
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

 
 

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