Biography
Actress Katharine Ross was trained at the San Francisco Workshop, barely completing her apprenticeship before landing leading roles on television. She made her TV debut as a spoiled teenager implicated in a fatal auto accident in Are There Any More Out There Like You?, a 1963 installment of the NBC anthology Kraft Suspense Theatre. Ross was Oscar nominated for her second film role as
Dustin Hoffman's
amour in
The Graduate (1967). After successfully teaming with
Paul Newman and
Robert Redford in
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, she became mired in a series of steadily worsening films. She staged a comeback as Francesca in the 1985 nighttime TV serial
The Colbys. At that time, Ross was married to actor
Sam Elliott. Together, Ross and Elliot scripted and starred in an above-average Western TV movie
Conagher (1991). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide