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Katharine Houghton

Acting Born Mar 10, 1945 Hartford, Connecticut, USA 18 credits

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Katharine Houghton (born Katharine Houghton Grant; March 10, 1945) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Joanna "Joey" Drayton, a Caucasian woman who brings home an African-American fiancé to meet her parents, in the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Katharine Hepburn, who played the mother of Houghton's character in the film, was in real life Houghton's aunt.

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Known for

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self
Film

The Last Airbender

as Katara's Grandma

Full filmography

  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
  • The Last Airbender (2010) as Katara's Grandma
  • Judd, for the Defense (1967)
  • ABC Stage 67 (1966) as Bonnie
  • Ethan Frome (1993) as Mrs. Hale
  • The Adams Chronicles (1976) as Abigail Adams II
  • Kinsey (2004) as Mrs. Spaulding
  • Billy Bathgate (1991) as Charlotte
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) as Joanna "Joey" Drayton
  • Mr. North (1988) as Mrs. Skeel
  • The Night We Never Met (1993) as Less
  • Sidney (2022) as Self
  • Let It Be Me (1995) as Homeless Woman
  • AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories (2002) as Self
  • The Gardener (1974) as Ellen Bennett
  • The Eyes of the Amaryllis (1982) as Isabel
  • A Love Story of Today (2008) as Self
  • A Special Kind of Love (2008) as Self