{{Infobox actor | name = Katharine Houghton | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birthname = Katharine Houghton Grant | birthdate = March 10, 1945 (1945-03-10) (age 62) | location = Hartford, Connecticut March 10 is the 69th day of the year (70th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945and died 2007 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Nickname: Location in Hartford County, Connecticut Coordinates: , Country United States State Connecticut NECTA Hartford Region Capitol Region Named 1637 Incorporated (city) 1784 Consolidated 1896 Government  - Type Mayor-council  - Mayor Eddie Perez Area  - City  18. ...

Katharine Houghton, an American actress, was born Katharine Houghton Grant on March 10, 1945, in Hartford, Connecticut. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and majored in philosophy. Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year (70th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945and died 2007 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Nickname: Location in Hartford County, Connecticut Coordinates: , Country United States State Connecticut NECTA Hartford Region Capitol Region Named 1637 Incorporated (city) 1784 Consolidated 1896 Government  - Type Mayor-council  - Mayor Eddie Perez Area  - City  18. ... Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college located in metropolitan New York City, about a thirty-minute train ride north of Manhattan. ... The philosopher Socrates about to take poison hemlock as ordered by the court. ...

Katharine Houghton is best known for her role as Joanna "Joey" Drayton, the Caucasian ingenue with an African-American fiancé, whom she brings home to meet her parents, in the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Mary Pickford, a perpetual ingenue The Ingenue is a stock character in literature and film and a role type in the theatre, generally a girl or a young woman who is endearingly innocent. ... Languages Predominantly American English Religions Protestantism (chiefly Baptist and Methodist); Roman Catholicism; Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ... Lauren steiger, born in 1992 at Royal Womens hospital started acting and modelling at the age of 2 and is now currently 15 working in Milan on the catwalks. ... Guess Whos Coming to Dinner is a 1967 Academy Award-winning comedy-drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Houghton. ...

Houghton was named after her aunt, Katharine Hepburn; both women's names came from family matriarch Katharine Houghton, their grandmother and mother, respectively. Katharine Hepburn was instrumental in helping Katharine Houghton launch her career. The acting torch has been passed along in the family to actress Schuyler Grant, Houghton's niece. Schulyer Grant. ...

Houghton has had an extensive career in film and theatre. She is also a playwright and has translated the works of others for the stage. In 1975, she wrote a children's story, "The Wizard's Daughter", which is collected in the book Two Beastly Tales, illustrated by Joan Patchen. Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. ...

In 2004 she portrayed Mrs. Spaulding, one of the trustees of Indiana University, in the feature film Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney. Indiana University, founded in 1820, is a nine-campus university system in the state of Indiana. ... Kinsey film poster Kinsey is a 2004 semi-biographical film written and directed by Bill Condon. ... William John Liam Neeson OBE (born June 7, 1952) is an Oscar-nominated Irish actor. ... Laura Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actress, active in movies, television, and theatre. ...

See also

• Houghton family

The Houghton Family is a prominent New England and Upstate New York business family. ...

External links

• Katharine Houghton at the Internet Movie Database
• Katharine Houghton at the Internet Broadway Database