Biography
Katharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940) is an American film and stage actress. Trained at the San Francisco Workshop, she is perhaps best known for her role as Elaine Robinson in the 1967 film The Graduate, opposite Dustin Hoffman, which won her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as Etta Place in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, opposite Paul Newman and Robert Redford. She has also established herself as an author, publishing several children's ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Attachments
2019
as Eileen
One millennial I.T. nerd plus one computer illiterate senior citizen, equals one unlikely attachment.
The Hero
2017
as Valarie Hayden
Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a life...
Wini + George
2013
as Wini
Wini + George is about an unlikely friendship that will change one young boy's life forever. When George, a shy 8-year-old outcast, first meets Wini, ...
We Grew Wings
2012
as Narrator (voice)
As the infamous 'Men of Oregon' basked in the spotlight, a team of women were running on the same track, vaulting over the same bar and crossing the s...
Eye of the Dolphin
2007
as Lucy
Alyssa is a troubled 14-year old, suspended from school a year after her mother has drowned. Her grandmother Lucy, at wit's end, decides to take Alyss...
The Wild Bunch: The True Tale of Butch and Sundance
2006
as Self
Comparisons between what is known from the real lives of Robert Leroy 'Butch Cassidy' Parker and Harry 'Sundance Kid' Longabaugh, and their lives as t...
All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
2006
as Self
A retrospective on the 1969 classic "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," its impact on the careers of the filmmakers and cast, and how the film made ...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time
2002
as Herself
Documentary feature about the real Butch and Sundance, produced with the DVD release of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Don't Let Go
2002
as Charlene Stevens
Scott Wilson plays Jimmy Ray in 'Don't Let Go'. He's a Rockabilly star who's a legend both because of his great hits and because he gave up music very...
Donnie Darko
2001
as Dr. Lilian Thurman
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series ...
The Stepford Life
2001
as Herself
A documentary about the making of The Stepford Wives (1975).
Home Before Dark
1997
It's 1963 in rural Massachusetts, and Nora James has the usual worries of an eleven year-old girl:lipstick, first crushes, staying out of trouble at s...
'The Graduate' at 25
1992
as Self
A 1992 featurette on the making of "The Graduate."
A Climate for Killing
1991
as Grace Hines
Shortly before a rodeo festival week in Yuma County a body is found in the desert. It seems that it's Ria Paris, who was assumed to be killed by her h...
Conagher
1991
as Evie Teale
Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is an honest, hardworking cowboy...
Conagher
1991
Teleplay
Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is an honest, hardworking cowboy...
Tattle: When To Tell On A Friend
1988
as Maggie's Mother
The tale of four friends who are members of a high school swimming team, and the threat to those bonds when two of them experiment with cocaine.
Red Headed Stranger
1986
as Laurie
Reverend Julian Shay (Willie Nelson) strode into the saloon, pulled out his six-shooter, and killed his adulterous wife (Morgan Fairchild) and the man...
Reel Horror
1985
as Miss Macy (archive footage)
Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.
Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
1983
as Ava Pryce
A widowed mother, Ava Pryce (Katharine Ross) and daughter Susan Decker (Linda Hamilton) clash over the same man, a West Coast restaurant the owner nam...
Travis McGee
1983
as Gretel Howard
Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, re...
The Shadow Riders
1982
as Kate Connery / Sister Katherine
After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L...
Wait Until Dark
1982
as Suzy Hendrix
A videotaped production of the Frederick Knott play in which three criminals play an elaborate scam on a blind woman who is in possession of a doll th...
Wrong Is Right
1982
as Sally Blake
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in th...
Marian Rose White
1982
as Nurse Bonnie MacNeil
Marian Rose White is placed in a State Home for the feeble-minded by her uncaring mother when her father dies. She is a young teenager and there is no...
Rodeo Girl
1980
as Sammy Garrett
Sammy Garrett, the wife of a champion rodeo performer, is tired of her subsidiary role at home as a housewife. So she becomes an aspiring rodeo rider ...
The Final Countdown
1980
as Laurel Scott
During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in tim...
Murder by Natural Causes
1979
as Allison Sinclair
An elaborate mystery involving a famous mentalist, his unfaithful wife who is trying to literally scare him to death, the best friend of the family, a...
The Legacy
1978
as Margaret Walsh
A couple attempts to unravel a sinister plot within the English countryside estate of a dying man who has gathered an eclectic and notable group of ho...
The Swarm
1978
as Capt. Helena Anderson
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have...
The Betsy
1978
as Sally Hardeman
Ruthless patriarch Loren hires racecar driver Angelo to build a more efficient vehicle against the wishes of his grandson. But things get even messier...
Inside 'the Swarm'
1978
as Self
A behind-the-scenes/Making of documentary short focused on Irwin Allen's all-star disaster flick The Swarm.
Voyage of the Damned
1976
as Mila Hauser
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
Wanted: The Sundance Woman
1976
as Etta Place
Katharine Ross repeats her portrayal of Etta Place (from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") in this adventure of the fugitive who, alone and desper...
The Stepford Wives
1975
as Joanna Eberhart
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all...
Chance and Violence
1974
as Docteur Constance Weber
A sociologist specialising in criminology moves to a peaceful residence on the Côte d’Azur so that he can concentrate on writing a thesis. When he is...
They Only Kill Their Masters
1972
as Kate Bingham
An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by the local sheriff uncovers a complex web of relation...
Get to Know Your Rabbit
1972
as Terrific-Looking Girl
A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, b...
Fools
1970
as Anais Appleton
A horror actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
1970
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the classic western about the lives of two of America's most famous outlaws. Director George Roy Hill narrat...
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
1969
as Lola
While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kills the man in self-defense, triggering a massive m...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
as Etta Place
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in ho...
Hellfighters
1968
as Tish Buckman
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the worl...
The Graduate
1967
as Elaine Robinson
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Games
1967
as Jennifer Montgomery
A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.
The Longest Hundred Miles
1967
as Laura Huntington
During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier, an Army nurse, a priest and a group of ...
Mister Buddwing
1966
as Janet
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
The Singing Nun
1966
as Nicole Arlien
Belgian nun Sister Ann is sent to another order where she's at first committed to helping troubled souls, like Nichole and little Dominic. When Father...
Shenandoah
1965
as Mrs. Ann Anderson
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his ...