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Elizabeth Alice "Ali" MacGraw (born April 1, 1939)[1][2] is an
American actress. She first gained attention with her role in
Goodbye, Columbus in 1969, for which she won the Golden Globe
Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She reached international
fame in 1970's Love Story, for which she was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe
Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In 1972,
MacGraw was voted the top female box office star in the world[3]
and was honored with a hands and footprints ceremony at
Grauman's Chinese Theatre. She went on to star in the hit films
The Getaway (1972) and Convoy (1978), and the 1983 television
miniseries The Winds of War. In 1991, she published her
autobiography, Moving Pictures.
Contents [hide]
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Film and television
2.2 Yoga
2.3 Other work
3 Animal welfare
4 Personal life
5 Filmography
6 References
7 Sources
8 External links
Early life
Ali MacGraw
MacGraw in the trailer for the 1972 film The
Getaway
Born
Elizabeth Alice MacGraw
April 1, 1939 (age 76)
Pound Ridge, New York, U.S.
Occupation Actress, model, author, animal
rights activist
Spouse(s)
Robin Martin Hoen (1961–1962;
divorced)
Robert Evans (1969–1972;
divorced; 1 child)
Steve McQueen (1973–1978;
divorced)
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Ali MacGraw was born in Pound Ridge, New York, the daughter of commercial artists Frances (née Klein; 19011980)[4] and Richard MacGraw.[1][2] She has one brother, Dick, an artist.[2] Her father was of Scottish descent
and her maternal grandparents were from Hungary. MacGraw's mother was from a Jewish family, but did not
disclose this to MacGraw's father.[2][5][6] MacGraw has described her father as "violent".[7]
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MacGraw is an alumna of Rosemary Hall (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut and Wellesley
College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.[2]
Career
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Beginning in 1960, MacGraw spent six years working at Harper's Bazaar magazine as a photographic assistant
to fashion maven Diana Vreeland.[2] She worked at Vogue magazine as a fashion model, and as a
photographer's stylist. She has also worked as an interior decorator.
Film and television [edit]
MacGraw started her acting career in television commercials, including one for the Polaroid Swinger camera.
MacGraw gained critical notice in the 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus, but real stardom came in 1970 when she
starred opposite Ryan O'Neal in Love Story, one of the highest grossing films in U.S. history.[8] MacGraw was
nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for that performance. Following Love Story, MacGraw was
celebrated on the cover of Time magazine. In 1971, she was on fashion writer Richard Blackwell's worstdressed list.[citation needed]
In 1972, after appearing in just three films, she had her footprints and autograph engraved at Grauman's
Chinese Theatre. She then starred opposite Steve McQueen in The Getaway (1972), which was one of the
year's top ten films at the box office. Having taken a five-year break from acting, in 1978 MacGraw re-emerged
in another box office hit, Convoy (1978), opposite Kris Kristofferson. She then appeared in the films Players
(1979) and Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), directed by Sidney Lumet.
In 1983, MacGraw starred in the highly successful television miniseries The Winds of War. In 1984, MacGraw
joined hit ABC prime-time soap opera Dynasty as Lady Ashley Mitchell, which, she admitted in a 2011 interview,
she did for the money.[9] She appeared in 14 episodes of the show before her character was killed off in the
infamous "Moldavian wedding massacre" cliffhanger episode in 1985.
In 1991, People magazine selected MacGraw as one of its "50 Most Beautiful People" in the World.[10]
In 2015 on Mad Men season 7, episode 9, Harry Crane (Rich Sommer) flatteringly tells Megan Draper (Jessica
Paré) that she looks like the would-be child of Brigitte Bardot and Ali MacGraw.
Yoga [edit]
Having become a Hatha Yoga devotee in her early fifties, MacGraw produced a yoga video with the American
Yoga Master Erich Schiffmann, Ali MacGraw Yoga Mind and Body. This video was a bestseller upon release
and still popular more than a decade later. The video's impact was such that in June 2007 Vanity Fair magazine
credited MacGraw with being one of the people responsible for the practice's recent popularity in the United
States.
Other work [edit]
MacGraw made her Broadway theatre debut in New York City in 2006 as a dysfunctional matriarch in the drama
Festen (The Celebration). In 2008 GQ magazine listed her in their "Sexiest 25 Women in Film Ever" edition.[11]
Animal welfare
[edit]
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.[12] In 2008, she wrote the foreword
to the book Pawprints of Katrina[13] by author Cathy Scott and photography by Clay Myers about Best Friends
Animal Society and the largest pet rescue in U.S. history.[14] An animal rights advocate throughout her life, she
received the Humane Education Award by Animal Protection of New Mexico for speaking out about animal
issues.[15]
Personal life
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MacGraw has acknowledged having had an abortion in her early twenties when the procedure was illegal.[16]
After college, she married Harvard beau Robin Hoen, a banker, but they divorced after a year and a half.[17]
On October 24, 1969, MacGraw married film producer Robert Evans; their son, Josh Evans, is an actor,
director, producer and screenwriter. 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.
MacGraw's autobiography, Moving Pictures (which she describes as "not well written"), revealed her struggles
with alcohol and sex addiction. She was treated for the former at the Betty Ford Center.
When former husband Evans received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2002, she accompanied him.
Their grandson Jackson was born in December 2010 to Josh and his wife, singer Roxy Saint.[18]
Since 1994 she has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after "fleeing Malibu" when a house she was renting burned
down.[19]
Filmography
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Year
1968
1969
1970
Title
Role
Notes
A Lovely Way to Die
Melody
Goodbye, Columbus
Brenda
Patimkin
Golden Globe Award for Most Promising
Newcomer - Female
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best
Newcomer
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
Year
The Getaway Title
Carol
McCoy
Role
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
1983
China Rose
Rose
(TV)
1985
Dynasty
Lady Ashley
Mitchell
TV series (14 episodes)
1986
Murder Elite
Diane Baker
1992
Survive the Savage Sea
Claire
Carpenter
TV film
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
2009
Split Estate
Herself
Notes
Made two appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, once in 1990, then in the farewell season in 2011.
References
^a b
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1.
"Ali MacGraw Biography (1939-)" . Film Reference. Advameg. Retrieved June 9, 2009.
2. ^ a b c d e f Weller, Sheila (March 2010). "Once in Love with Ali" . Vanity Fair. p. 5. Archived from the original on
1 March 2011. Retrieved January 23, 2011. "In the original version of this article, Ali MacGraw's age last April was
originally stated as 71. She turned 70 last April. We regret the error."
3. ^ Poll Names Charles Bronson, Ali MacGraw, Sean Connery
4. ^ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGB8-J45 accessed 2/12/2015
5. ^ Kleiner, Dick (1969-04-12). "Ingenue Star Ali Mcgraw Is Selective About Parts" . Tuscaloosa News. Retrieved
2010-08-20.
6. ^ Bykofsky, Stuart D. (1983-02-04). "ALI MACGRAW: A STAR BY CHANCE" . Philadelphia Daily News.
Retrieved 2008-04-19.
7. ^ New York magazine, April 3, 2006, pp. 69–70
8. ^ "DOMESTIC GROSSES" . Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
9. ^ http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/01/15/ali-macgraw-reflects-on-her-career-in-front-of-the-camera/ Ali
MacGraw Reflects on Her Career in Front of the Camera
10. ^ "Beautiful Through the Years" , people.com, May 12, 1997.
11. ^ "GQ magazine names the sexiest 25 women in film ever" . Boxwish. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
12. ^ "PETA Offers Southern California Residents Urgent Information for Safeguarding Animals During Evacuations" .
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
13. ^ "PAWPRINTS OF KATRINA tells stories of animal recuse in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina" .
Wileyptnews.com. 2008-07-28. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
14. ^ "Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned" . Prweb.com. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
15. ^ "Animal Protection of New Mexico, Inc." . Apnm.org. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
16. ^ Ali MacGraw (1985-08-05). "When Abortion Was Illegal - Personal Tragedy, Coping and Overcoming Illness" .
People. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
17. ^ Ali MacGraw Hopes War Finally Will Bring Her Peace
18. ^ Internet Movie Database: Josh Evans - Biography
19. ^ "Ali MacGraw, Defining Beauty" . CBS News. 2007-12-05.
Sources
[edit]
"Ali MacGraw's Definition of Love (Love Story Reunion Show)" . The Oprah Winfrey Show. October 11,
2010.
External links
[edit]
Ali MacGraw at the Internet Movie Database
Artists Direct biography
People magazine interview, February 14, 1983
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