Elizabeth Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1939)[a] is an American
actress. She gained attention with her role in the film Goodbye,
Columbus (1969), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Most
Promising Newcomer. She gained an international profile for her role
in the film Love Story (1970), for which she was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best
Actress in a Motion Picture â€" Drama. In 1972, MacGraw was voted the
top female box office star in the world and was honored with a hands
and footprints ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre after having been
in just three films. She went on to star in the popular action films
The Getaway (1972) and Convoy (1978) as well as the romantic sports
drama Players (1979), the comedy Just Tell Me What You Want (1980),
and the historical novel-based television miniseries The Winds of War
(1983). In 1991, she published an autobiography, Moving
Pictures.MacGraw was born in Pound Ridge, New York, the daughter of
commercial artists Frances (née Klein; 1901â€"1980) and Richard
MacGraw. She has one brother, Dick, an artist. Her mother was Jewish,
the daughter of emigrants from Budapest, Hungary. MacGraw's mother
chose not to disclose her ancestry to her father, instead professing
ignorance about it. "I think Daddy was bigoted," MacGraw has said.Her
mother was considered a "pioneer" as an artist, who had taught in
Paris before settling in Greenwich Village. Her parents married when
her mother was nearing 40: "My gorgeous father: a combination of
Tyrone Power and a mystery, a brilliant artist and a brain beyond
brains." He was born in New Jersey with his childhood spent in an
orphanage. He ran away to sea when he was 16 and studied art in
Munich. MacGraw adds, "Daddy was frightened and really, really angry.
He never forgave his real parents for giving him up." As an adult, he
constantly suppressed the rage he built up against his parents. She
described her father as "violent". Ali MacGraw Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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