Katharine Houghton Grant Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Katharine Houghton (born Katharine Houghton Grant; March 10, 1945) is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for playing Joanna "Joey" Drayton, a white American woman who brings home her black 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.
GMA Dove Award for Traditional Gospel Recorded Song of the Year
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Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance/Song
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(When asked if she had ever been compared to her Aunt Katharine as an actress) "All the time - Once I even considered being a veterinarian!"
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(when asked what she thought of Kate Hepburn) 'Oh, she was a wonderful aunt. I mean, before she became my mother, she was a wonderful aunt. Always coming back at holidays. And I really didn't know her that well as a child because she was so busy. But she'd come back at holidays laden with beautiful gifts. And a fairy tale godmother, really she was.'
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Starred with her real-life aunt Katharine Hepburn in the 1967 film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" In the film, they portrayed mother and daughter.
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performing her play 'The best kept secret' based on her love affair with a soviet artist in the 1960s [2003]
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She was in a play. Lettice & Lovage, at the Ivoryton Playhouse in Ivoryton, Ct, close to her Aunt's home in Old Saybrook [July 2002]
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In LA working on a new musical she hopes to have out in January. [July 2004]
She was nominated for a 1973 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Guest Artist for her performance in the play, "Suddenly Last Summer" at the Ivanhoe Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
$3 Million
