Katharine Hepburn
A true iconoclast known for her intelligence, determination and fierce demeanor Katharine Hepburn demonstrated remarkable staying power in a screen career that spanned more than six decades, winning three of her four Best Actress Oscars after the age of 60. An overnight sensation upon winning her first Academy Award for "Morning Glory" (1933), the headstrong actress soon chafed under the constraints of the male-dominated studio system. Brash and outspoken - she was one of the first American female celebrities to wear trousers - her prickly public image and a series of poor project choices earned her a reputation as "box office poison" until "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) allowed her to take control over her career as few actresses had before. From then on, Hepburn carefully cultivated roles that were largely reflections of her own unique persona. She perfected the battle-of-the-sexes comedy formula with the love of her life, Spencer Tracy, in such films as "Woman of the Year" (1942) and "Adam's Rib" (1949), then entered a second phase of her career with the prim "spinster" roles first seen in "The African Queen" (1951). For many, these iconic performances would eventually outshine her earlier triumphs. Hepburn's final film with Tracy in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967) won her another Oscar, as did her pairing with Peter O'Toole in "The Lion in Winter" (1968) and Henry Fonda in "On Golden Pond" (1981). An unrepentantly private person, Hepburn maintained a reclusive, yet deeply satisfying life up until her passing at the age of 96.
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Katharine Hepburn
Filmography
Movies
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84% | No Score Yet | Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes | Self | - | 2024 |
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Call Me Kate | Self | - | 2023 |
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One Christmas | Cornelia Beaumont (Character) | - | 1994 |
28% |
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Love Affair | Ginny (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | This Can't Be Love | Marion Bennett (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Upstairs | Victoria Brown (Character) | - | 1992 |
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Laura Lansing Slept Here | Laura Lansing (Character) | - | 1988 |
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Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry | Margaret Delafield (Character) | - | 1986 |
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The Ultimate Solution of Grace Quigley | Grace Quigley (Character) | - | 1984 |
91% |
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On Golden Pond | Ethel Thayer (Character) | - | 1981 |
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The Corn Is Green | Miss Lilly Moffat (Character) | - | 1979 |
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Olly, Olly, Oxen Free | Miss Pudd (Character) | - | 1978 |
45% |
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Rooster Cogburn | Eula Goodnight (Character) | - | 1975 |
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Love Among the Ruins | Jessica Medlicott (Character) | - | 1974 |
67% |
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A Delicate Balance | Agnes (Character) | - | 1973 |
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The Glass Menagerie | Amanda Wingfield (Character) | - | 1973 |
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The Trojan Women | Hecuba (Character) | - | 1972 |
11% |
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The Madwoman of Chaillot | Countess Aurelia (Character) | - | 1969 |
91% |
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The Lion in Winter | Eleanor of Aquitaine (Character) | $17.9K | 1968 |
71% |
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Christina Drayton (Character) | - | 1967 |
95% |
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Long Day's Journey Into Night | Mary Tyrone (Character) | - | 1962 |
68% |
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Suddenly, Last Summer | Mrs. Venable (Character) | - | 1959 |
100% |
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Desk Set | Bunny Watson (Character) | - | 1957 |
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The Iron Petticoat | Captain Vinka Kovelenko (Character) | - | 1956 |
80% |
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The Rainmaker | Lizzie Curry (Character) | - | 1956 |
92% |
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Summertime | Jane Hudson (Character) | - | 1955 |
85% |
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Pat and Mike | Patricia 'Pat' Pemberton (Character) | - | 1952 |
96% |
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The African Queen | Rose Sayer (Character) | - | 1951 |
96% |
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Adam's Rib | Amanda Bonner (Character) | - | 1949 |
80% |
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State of the Union | Mary Matthews (Character) | - | 1948 |
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Song of Love | Clara Wieck Schumann (Character) | - | 1947 |
14% |
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The Sea of Grass | Lutie Cameron Brewton (Character) | - | 1947 |
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Undercurrent | Ann Hamilton (Character) | - | 1946 |
83% |
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Without Love | Jamie Rowan (Character) | - | 1945 |
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Dragon Seed | Jade Tan (Character) | - | 1944 |
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Stage Door Canteen | Self | - | 1943 |
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Keeper of the Flame | Mrs. Christine Forrest (Character) | - | 1942 |
83% |
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Woman of the Year | Tess Harding (Character) | - | 1942 |
100% |
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The Philadelphia Story | Tracy Samantha Lord (Character) | - | 1940 |
100% |
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Holiday | Linda Seton (Character) | - | 1938 |
97% |
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Bringing Up Baby | Susan Vance (Character) | - | 1938 |
96% |
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Stage Door | Terry Randall (Character) | - | 1937 |
67% |
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Quality Street | Phoebe Throssel (Character) | - | 1937 |
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A Woman Rebels | Pamela "Pam" Thistlewaite (Character) | - | 1936 |
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Mary of Scotland | Mary Stuart (Character) | - | 1936 |
89% |
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Alice Adams | Alice Adams (Character) | - | 1935 |
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Break of Hearts | Constance Dane Roberti (Character) | - | 1935 |
73% |
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Sylvia Scarlett | Sylvia Scarlett, aka Sylvester Scarlett (Character) | - | 1935 |
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The Little Minister | Babbie (Character) | - | 1934 |
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Spitfire | Trigger Hicks (Character) | - | 1934 |
83% |
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Christopher Strong | Lady Cynthia Darrington (Character) | - | 1933 |
89% |
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Little Women | Jo (Character) | - | 1933 |
60% |
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Morning Glory | Eva Lovelace (Character) | - | 1933 |
60% |
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A Bill of Divorcement | Sydney Fairfield (Character) | - | 1932 |