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  • 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
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Ali MacGraw
Born Alice MacGraw
April 1, 1938 (1938-04-01) (age 71)
Pound Ridge, New York
Spouse(s) Robin Hoen (1961-1962)
Robert Evans (1969–1972)
Steve McQueen (1973–1978)

Alice "Ali" MacGraw (born April 1, 1938)[1] is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actress.

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Early life

MacGraw was born in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York, the daughter of commercial artists.[2] MacGraw has described her father as "violent."[3] MacGraw's maternal grandfather, Maurice Klein, was a Jewish immigrant from Budapest, Hungary.[4] She has one brother.

Career

An alumna of Rosemary Hall and 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, as a fashion model, and as a photographer's stylist. She has also worked as an interior decorator. MacGraw also appeared in several television commercials including the one for the Polaroid Swinger camera.

She gained notice in Goodbye, Columbus, but real stardom came in 1970 with Love Story, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Following this, MacGraw was featured on the cover of Time magazine. In 1971, she also appeared on Richard Blackwell's worst-dressed list.[5]

In 1972, after appearing in only four films, she had her footprints and autograph engraved at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. In 1972, she co-starred in the action adventure film The Getaway with Steve McQueen, whom she married in 1973. Taking a break from acting, she re-emerged in the 1978 film Convoy, Players (1979), Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), and then the 1983 television miniseries China Rose and The Winds of War. In 1984, MacGraw joined the hit ABC prime-time soap opera Dynasty as "Lady Ashley Mitchell". She appeared in 14 episodes of the show before her character became one of the few casualties of the infamous "Muldavian wedding massacre" cliffhanger in 1985.

MacGraw wrote an 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.

Since 1994, she has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after "fleeing Malibu".[6] 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 documentary, 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.

In 2008, GQ magazine lister her in their Sexiest 25 Women in Film Ever for her 1972 role with Steve McQueen in The Getaway.[7][8]

Animal welfare

In July 2006, MacGraw filmed a public service announcement for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), urging residents to take their pets with them in the event of wildfires.[9] In 2008, she wrote the foreword to the book Pawprints of Katrina[10] by author Cathy Scott about Best Friends Animal Society and the largest pet rescue in U.S. history.[11] An animal rights advocate throughout her life, she was given the Humane Education Award by Animal Protection of New Mexico for speaking out about animal issues.[12]

Personal life

MacGraw admitted to having an illegal abortion when she was in her early 20s.[13] From 1961 to 1962, she was married to banker Robin Hoen. On October 24, 1969, MacGraw married film producer Robert Evans, becoming the third of his seven wives. Their son, Josh Evans, was born on January 16, 1971. The couple divorced in 1972 after she became involved with Steve McQueen on the set of The Getaway. Despite being divorced from him, she and Evans are on good terms and have since made several public appearances together. MacGraw married McQueen on July 13, 1973. McQueen filed for divorce in 1978 after he became involved with another woman. MacGraw has not since remarried. Her daughter-in-law is actress Charis Michelsen.

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

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1968 A Lovely Way to Die Melody
1969 Goodbye, Columbus Brenda Patimkin Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Female
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer
1970 Love Story Jennifer Cavalleri David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
1972 The Getaway Carol McCoy
1978 Convoy Melissa
1979 Players Nicole Boucher
1980 Just Tell Me What You Want Bones Burton
1983 The Winds of War Natalie Jastrow TV mini-series
China Rose Rose (TV)
1985 Dynasty Lady Ashley Mitchell (14 episodes)
1986 Murder Elite Diane Baker
1992 Survive the Savage Sea Claire Carpenter TV movie
1993 Gunsmoke: The Long Ride Uncle Jane Merkel (TV)
1994 Natural Causes Fran Jakes
1997 Glam Lynn Travers
1999 Get Bruce Herself
2002 The Trail of the Painted Ponies Narrator
2005 Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah Herself
2007 Do You Sleep in the Nude? Herself

References

  1. ^ Ali MacGraw at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ "Ali MacGraw Biography (1939-)". Filmreference.com. 1939-04-01. http://www.filmreference.com/film/25/Ali-MacGraw.html. Retrieved on 2009-06-09. 
  3. ^ New York magazine, April 3, 2006, pp. 69–70
  4. ^ Bykofsky, Stuart D. (1983-02-04). "ALI MACGRAW: A STAR BY CHANCE". Philadelphia Daily News. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=0EB294FFE6B123DF&p_docnum=1&s_accountid=AC0108041902563326437&s_orderid=NB0108041902542625544&s_dlid=DL0108041902564126499&s_ecproduct=DOC&s_ecprodtype=&s_username=mikelll222&s_accountid=AC0108041902563326437&s_upgradeable=no. Retrieved on 2008-04-19. 
  5. ^ [1][dead link]
  6. ^ Ali MacGraw, Defining Beauty]
  7. ^ "GQ magazine names the sexiest 25 women in film ever". Boxwish. http://boxwish.com/blog/view/375-gq-magazine-names-the-sexiest-25-women-in-film-ever. Retrieved on 2009-06-09. 
  8. ^ "25 Sexiest Women". Men.style.com. http://men.style.com/gq/features/25sexiestwomen. Retrieved on 2009-06-09. 
  9. ^ "PETA Offers Southern California Residents Urgent Information for Safeguarding Animals During Evacuations". People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. http://sev.prnewswire.com/publishing-information-services/20071025/AQW25324102007-1.html. Retrieved on 2009-06-09. 
  10. ^ "PAWPRINTS OF KATRINA tells stories of animal recues in the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina". Wileyptnews.com. 2008-07-28. http://wileyptnews.com/2008/07/28/scott-pawprints_of_katrina/. Retrieved on 2009-06-09. 
  11. ^ "Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned". Prweb.com. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1035454.htm. Retrieved on 2009-06-09. 
  12. ^ "Animal Protection of New Mexico, Inc. - 2001 Accomplishments". Apnm.org. http://www.apnm.org/about/2001_accomplishments.php. Retrieved on 2009-06-09. 
  13. ^ By Ali MacGraw (1985-08-05). "When Abortion Was Illegal - Personal Tragedy, Coping and Overcoming Illness". http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20091435,00.html. Retrieved on 2009-06-09. 

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Awards and achievements
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
v • d • e
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama

Geraldine Page (1961) · Geraldine Page (1962) · Leslie Caron (1963) · Anne Bancroft (1964) · Samantha Eggar (1965) · Anouk Aimée (1966) · Edith Evans (1967) · Joanne Woodward (1968) · Geneviève Bujold (1969) · Ali MacGraw (1970) · Jane Fonda (1971) · Liv Ullmann (1972) · Marsha Mason (1973) · Gena Rowlands (1974) · Louise Fletcher (1975) · Faye Dunaway (1976) · Jane Fonda (1977) · Jane Fonda (1978) · Sally Field (1979) · Mary Tyler Moore (1980)

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