Katharine Ross
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Katharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-nominated American movie and stage actress. Her prominent film roles include:
- Shenandoah, as James Stewart's daughter-in-law.
- The Graduate, as Elaine Robinson, a college student who discovers that her mother and boyfriend have had an affair
- PIGS
- Get to Know Your Rabbit, as a nameless woman who falls in love with a tap-dancing magician
- Hellfighters, as Tish Buckman, playing John Wayne's daughter
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as rural schoolteacher Etta Place in the 1890s involved with the eponymous outlaws
- They Only Kill Their Masters (1972) as a murder suspect
- The Stepford Wives (1975)
- The Legacy (film) (1978)
- The Final Countdown, as the secretary to a U.S. Senator in the 1940s
- Donnie Darko, as a psychiatrist treating the title character, a teen with disturbing visions
She also starred in the 1980s television series The Colbys playing opposite Charlton Heston as Francesca Colby.
She has been married to actor Sam Elliott since 1984.