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| Birth Name(s) : Alice MacGraw |
Date of Birth: April 1, 1938 |
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Single
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| Profession:
Actor |
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Full Ali MacGraw Biography
"Love means never having to say you're sorry," went the early 1970s pop homily that originated with the phenomenally popular Love Story (1970). But along with that catchy little phrase we also got Ali MacGraw, whose star shone briefly but brightly. This darkhaired, olive-skinned beauty, an art-history student at Wellesley before joining "Harper's Bazaar" in 1960 as a photographer's assistant, found working in front of the camera much more rewarding; her exotic features and inviting smile soon made her a top fashion model. A bit role in a 1968 thriller, A Lovely Way to Die didn't exactly set the screen on fire, but MacGraw's film career ratcheted up a notch the following year with Goodbye, Columbus and she won surprisingly good notices for her portrayal of a spoiled, immature suburban girl headed for marriage. Love Story an unabashed three-handkerchief weepie that cast MacGraw as a college student whose tragic illness disrupts her rapturous romance, catapulted her to international stardom and earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
MacGraw played opposite future husband Steve McQueen in The Getaway (1972), a gritty thriller directed by Sam Peckinpah, before bowing out of the Hollywood scene; although she ostensibly retired to devote time to her marriage, MacGraw has revealed that she was plagued by serious personal problems as well. She returned to the screen in 1978's Convoy a lackluster trucker opus also directed by Peckinpah, and followed that with Players (1979), a dreadful misfire in which she portrayed a kept woman. Just Tell Me What You Want (1980) gave MacGraw an opportunity to display a hitherto unsuspected flair for comedy, playing the mistress of obnoxious tycoon Alan King. Her work in two well-received TV miniseries, "China Rose" and "The Winds of War," kept her in the public eye, but her big-screen career fizzled again. In 1991 she resurfaced, this time as spokesperson for a line of cosmetics, and as the author of a candid memoir, "Moving Pictures." MacGraw's son Josh Evans is also an actor. |
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Born to an Irish-American father, whom she recently described as "violent" and a Jewish mother, she has one sibling, a brother.
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.
When her ex-husband, Robert Evans, received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame she accompanied him. |
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