Birthday: May 12, 1907
"I'm a personality as well as an actress," Katharine Hepburn once declared. "Show me an actress who isn't a personality, and you'll show me a woman who isn't a star." Hepburn's bold, distinctive personality was apparent almost from birth. She inherited from her doctor father and suffragette mother her three most pronounced traits: an open and ever-expanding mind, a healthy body (maintained ...more- 1982
- British Academy of Film and Television
- Best Actress
- On Golden Pond
- win
- 1981
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Actress
- On Golden Pond
- win
- 1981
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- On Golden Pond
- nom
- 1975
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy
- Love Among the Ruins
- win
- 1968
- British Academy of Film and Television
- Best Actress
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- win
- 1999
- The Hidden Army: Women in World War II
- Narrator
- 1994
- Love Affair
- Ginny
- 1994
- This Can't Be Love
- Marion Bennett
- 1994
- One Christmas
- Cornelia Beaumont
- 1993
- The Man Upstairs
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