Katharine Hepburn's biography

Katharine Hepburn is 96 years old film actor born at Hartford. She was born on Sunday 12th of May 1907. She is often nicknamed as First Lady of CinemaKateThe Great KateKathy. According to year of birth 1907 she belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 12th of May means she is Taurus. Taurus is most stable sign of Zodiac, that is the reason it is also included in the earthy sign of the Zodiac Belt. One born with this Moon Sign (Not a Rising Sign) is very stable and balanced through their mind.

She is native english speaker. She is citizen of United States of America. She is an adherent of atheism. Her primary profession is to be film actor. You can know her also as autobiographer, stage actor, television actor. She is recently known as actor. She received Academy Award for Best Actress Morning Glory in 1934

Katharine Hepburn's dad

Katharine Hepburn's father's name is Thomas Norval Hepburn.

Katharine Hepburn's mom

Katharine Hepburn's mother's name is Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn.

Katharine Hepburn's schools

We found 2 schools She attended. Complete list of schools: Bryn Mawr College, Kingswood-Oxford School.

Detailed informations about her schools

Graduated from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1928, with a degree in history and philosophy.

Katharine Hepburn's career

Her main focus is to be film actor and actor. You could see her also in Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, On Golden Pond and many more. She is also a member of Committee for the First Amendment.

How did Katharine Hepburn die

She died on on Sunday 29th of June 2003 when he was 96 years old at Old Saybrook. Katharine Hepburns death was caused by natural causes. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Katharine Hepburn's Awards

Was nominated for two Tony Awards: in 1970 as Best Actress (Musical), for playing the title character, Coco Chanel in "Coco," and in 1982 as Best Actress (Play), for "The West Side Waltz." She lost both times.
Holds the Guiness World Record as the only movie star to win four Academy Awards, all for her leading roles in Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981).
Was the 6th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Morning Glory (1933) at The 6th Academy Awards on March 16, 1934.
Received academy awards for her first as well as her final three nominations, with 34 years between her first and second win.
Won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her last three nominations for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981).

Katharine Hepburn's Rankings

Ranked #1 woman in the AFI's "50 Greatest Movie Legends." [June 1999]
Ranked #68 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Her performance as "Eleanor of Aquitaine" in The Lion in Winter (1968) is ranked #13 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
Her performance as "Tracy Lord" in The Philadelphia Story (1940) is ranked #54 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
Her performance as "Rose Sayer" in The African Queen (1951) is ranked #94 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
Her performance as "Susan Vance" in Bringing Up Baby (1938) is ranked #21 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Katharine Hepburn's Nominations

She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Alice Adams in 1935
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress

What Katharine Hepburn has done for a first time

Made nine films with Spencer Tracy, the first of which was Woman of the Year (1942).
When Cate Blanchett won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Aviator (2004), Hepburn became the first previous Oscar winner to become an Oscar-winning movie role.
Her first name is often misspelled as Katherine, it is actually spelled Katharine with a second A. She was known for correcting those who spelled it wrong.
Received academy awards for her first as well as her final three nominations, with 34 years between her first and second win.

Katharine Hepburn's quotes

People have grown fond of me, like some old building.
I'm a personality as well as an actress. Show me an actress who isn't a personality, and you'll show me a woman who isn't a star.
Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
I don't regret anything I've ever done; As long as I enjoyed it at the time.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
I often wonder whether men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
There are no laurels in life . . . just new challenges.
[on Hollywood] They didn't like me until I got into a leg show.
I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.
Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.
Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. "Beat it", I said, "go sit on a tack!" "We made you", they said. "Like hell you did", I told them.
[on fashion] I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all.
[on marriage] It's bloody impractical. "To love, honor, and obey". If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.
At my age, you don't get much variety - usually some old nut who's off her track.
With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.
I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.
I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.
Life is full of censorship. I can't spit in your eye.
Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and at the same time selling yourself.
It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good - or because they're lucky.
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior.
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy. Acting's just waiting for a custard pie. That's all.
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.
Enemies are so stimulating.
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!
I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other.
I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.
Listen to the song of life.
Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.
"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
1993] I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.
[1993] In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.
[1993] The lack of work destroys people.
[Describing Cary Grant] He is personality functioning.
[asked what star quality is] It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.
[When Barbara Walters asked her if she owned a skirt] I have one, Ms. Walters. I'll wear it to your funeral.
[pn Marlon Brando] I don't think he's a limited actor at all - I think he's a very gifted actor. Although I'm afraid he may be a limited person.
[on director George Cukor] He has the ability to make me trust myself.
[on Humphrey Bogart] Bogart was like Henry Fonda -- proud and happy to be an actor.
[on Humphrey Bogart] He was a real man -- nothing feminine about him. He knew he was a natural aristocrat -- better than anybody.
[on Peter O'Toole] He can do anything. A bit cuckoo, but sweet and terribly funny.
[1954 comment on Judy Holliday] My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so -- so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.
Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
On personal power: As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
On work: Without discipline, there's no life at all.
On art: I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or they're because they're lucky. If they have time to think.
What makes you a star is horsepower.
[1991] I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.
If you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy and if you live for yourself then you will not be happy and you won't be able to sleep or do anything else.
[Observation, 1967] I think they're beginning to think I'm not going to be around much longer. And what do you know. They'll miss me like an old monument. Like the Flatiron Building.
[on remaining childless] I had such a wonderful upbringing that I had a very high standard of how a father and mother should behave. I couldn't be that way and carry on a movie career.
[on Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire] She gave him sex. He gave her class.
I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
[reflecting on her performances] I think I'm always the same.
I never played with a sort of fancy accent of any kind. So, was I an actor? I don't know.
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Katharine Hepburn's body shape

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