Person Details

Birthday: 1907-05-12 13:14:03

Death: 2003-06-29 13:14:03

Aliases: Кэтрин Хепберн , Katherine Hepburn , 캐서린 헵번 , Kate Hepburn , Katie Hepburn

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Hartford, Connecticut, USA

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Movie Involvements: 73

TV Involvements: 5


Most Famous Work

Biography

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Raised in Connecticut by wealthy parents, Hepburn turned to acting after graduation. Favorable reviews of her work on stage in 1932 brought her to the notice of Hollywood. After a few early film successes, including her first Academy Award, for Morning Glory, Hepburn endured a string of flops, which led to her being voted "box office poison". She arranged with playwright Philip Barry to write a play with her in mind, one that smoothed over her prickly public image. This play, The Philadelphia Story, turned out to be a huge success on Broadway. Securing the film rights for herself with the help of Howard Hughes, Hepburn sold them to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on the condition that she reprise her leading role as Tracy Lord. The hit film adaptation revived her flagging career. Throughout her six-decade career, Hepburn co-starred with screen legends including Cary Grant (Bringing Up Baby, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story), Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen), John Wayne (Rooster Cogburn), Laurence Olivier (Love Among the Ruins) and Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond). Her most successful pairing was with Spencer Tracy, with whom she made a string of hit pictures, starting with 1942's Woman of the Year. The last of their nine films together was Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), which was completed shortly before Tracy's death. Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four out of 12 nominations. She won an Emmy Award in 1976 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins, and was nominated for four other Emmys, two Tony Awards and eight Golden Globes. In 1999, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star in the history of American cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Katharine Hepburn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Tony Awards
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5

Tony Awards

(1956) Self - Nominee / Performer
Intimate Portrait
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5

Intimate Portrait

(1993) Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
Average
7
The Oscars
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7

The Oscars

(1953) Self
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
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8
The Lion in Winter
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7

The Lion in Winter

(1968) Eleanor of Aquitaine
The African Queen
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7

The African Queen

(1952) Rose Sayer
Suddenly, Last Summer
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7

Suddenly, Last Summer

(1959) Violet Venable

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Herself
2021 Self (archive footage)
2019 (archive)
2018 Self (archive footage)
2017 Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
2014 Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
2012 (archive footage)
2010 Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self / Rose Sayer (archive footage)
2004 Coco Chanel (segment "Coco")
Self (archive footage)
2003 Self (archive footage)
1997 Self (archive footage)
1996 Self
Self (voice) (uncredited)
Self (archive footage)
1995 Self - Interviewee
1994 Cornelia Beaumont
Mrs. Venable (archive footage)
Ginny
(archive footage)
Marion Bennett
1993 Self
Self
1992 Victoria Brown
Self (voice)
1990 Self
1989 Self
1988 Self
(archive footage)
Self
Laura Lansing
Herself
1987 Herself
Self
1986 Margaret Delafield
Self – Host
1985 Grace Quigley
Self
1981 Ethel Thayer
1979 Miss Lilly Moffat
1978 Self
Miss Pudd
1976 (archive footage)
1975 Eula
Self (archive footage)
Jessica Medlicott
1974 (archive footage) (uncredited)
1973 Amanda Wingfield
Agnes
1972 Self (archive footage)
1971 Self
Hecuba
Self
1969 Contessa Aurelia
1968 Eleanor of Aquitaine
Self - Guest
1967 Christina Drayton
1965 Self
1964 Tracy Lord (archive footage)
1962 Mary Tyrone
1961 Self (voice) (uncredited)
1959 Violet Venable
1957 Bunny Watson
1956 Lizzie Curry
Captain Vinka Kovalenko
Self - Nominee / Performer
1955 Jane Hudson
1953 Self
1952 Patricia "Pat" Pemberton
Rose Sayer
1950 Self (archive footage)
1949 Amanda Bonner
1948 Mary Matthews
1947 Clara Wieck Schumann
Lutie Cameron Brewton
1946 Ann Hamilton
1945 Jamie Rowan
1944 Jade Tan
(archive footage)
1943 Katharine Hepburn
Christine Forrest
1942 Tess Harding
1941 Narrator (voice)
1940 Tracy Lord
Self
Self (archive footage)
1938 Linda Seton
Susan Vance
1937 Terry Randall
Phoebe Throssel
1936 Pamela 'Pam' Thistlewaite
Mary Stuart
1935 Sylvia/Sylvester Scarlett
Alice Adams
Constance Dane Roberti
1934 Barbara 'Babbie'
Trigger Hicks
1933 Jo
Eva Lovelace
Lady Cynthia Darrington
1932 Sydney Fairfield
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Year Character Movie/Tv

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
1993 Cinematography
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1993 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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