Ali MacGraw

Elizabeth Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1939) is an American actress. For her role in Goodbye, Columbus (1969) she won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She then starred in Love Story (1970), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In 1972, MacGraw was voted the top female film star in the world and was honored with a hands and footprints ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre after having made just three films. She went on to star in The Getaway (1972), Convoy (1978), Players (1979), Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), and The Winds of War (1983). In 1991, she published an autobiography, Moving Pictures.

Early life

MacGraw was born on April 1, 1939, in Manhattan, New York City. She is the daughter of commercial artists Frances (née Klein) and Richard MacGraw. She has one brother, Dick, an artist, and grew up in the suburb of Pound Ridge, New York. Her mother was Hungarian-Jewish, the daughter of emigrants from Budapest, Hungary, while her father had Scottish ancestry. MacGraw's mother chose not to disclose her ancestry to Ali's father, instead professing ignorance about it. "I think Daddy was bigoted," MacGraw has said.