Ali MacGraw

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Ali MacGraw

Birth nameAlice MacGraw
BornMarch 1 1938 (1938--) (age 69)
Pound Ridge, New York
Spouse(s)Steve McQueen (August 31 1973–1978) (divorced)
Robert Evans (October 24 1969–1972) (divorced) 1 child


Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1938 in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe award winning American actress.

Biography

Youth

Born to an Irish-American father, whom she recently described as "violent" [1] and a Jewish mother, she has one sibling, a brother.

Career

An alumna of Wellesley College, she began working in 1960 as a photographic assistant at Harper's Bazaar, as an assistant to the legendary fashion maven, Diana Vreeland, at Vogue, and as a fashion model, and as a photographer's stylist. She gained notice in Goodbye, Columbus, but real stardom came in 1970 with Love Story. MacGraw's keen eye and sense of style was celebrated on the cover of Time. Her minimalist style basically consisted of healthy skin without much makeup, long gleaming hair pulled back simply, and the ever-present brimless woolen hat that became known as the "Ali Cap." She has also worked as an interior decorator.

MacGraw has appeared in other films, such as: Convoy, Players, Just Tell Me What You Want and the television miniseries China Rose and The Winds of War. In 1985, MacGraw appeared in the hit ABC prime time soap opera Dynasty as "Lady Ashley Mitchell."

MacGraw wrote a well-received autobiography, Moving Pictures (which she now states was "not well written"), which described her struggles with alcohol and male dependence. She was treated for the former at the Betty Ford Center. In 1991, People magazine chose her as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.

She had lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico for many years after "fleeing Malibu". Having become a Hatha Yoga devotee in her fifties, she made a tremendously successful Yoga video with the American Yoga Master Erich Schiffmann, Ali MacGraw Yoga Mind and Body, which was a bestseller upon release and was still popular more than a decade later. The video's impact was such that in June 2007 Vanity Fair magazine credited her for being one of the people responsible for the practice's recent popularity in the United States. In keeping with her interests, she narrated a well-received documentary on Yoga, The Fire of Yoga in 2003.

She made her Broadway theatre debut in New York City in 2006 as a dysfunctional matriarch in the drama Festen (The Celebration). She was also included in a Seventeen magazine issue for inspiring hairstyles.

Personal life

On October 24, 1969, she married film producer Robert Evans; their son, Josh Evans, is an actor and producer. They divorced in 1972 after she became involved with Steve McQueen on the set of The Getaway, whom she then married on August 31, 1973 and divorced in 1978.

When her ex-husband, Robert Evans, received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame she accompanied him.

She divided her time living in her homes in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Los Angeles, California.

Academy Award Nomination

Ali MacGraw was unsuccessfully nominated for :

1970 Best Actress - Love Story

She lost to Glenda Jackson who won that year for Women in Love.

References

1. ^ (New York magazine, April 3, 2006, pp. 69-70),

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Awards
Preceded by
Geneviève Bujold
for Anne of the Thousand Days		Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1971
for Love Story 		Succeeded by
Jane Fonda
for Klute


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DATE OF BIRTH1 April, 1938
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Steve McQueen

Birth name Terence Steven McQueen
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Beech Grove, Indiana
Died November 7 1980 (aged 50)
Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico


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Robert Evans (born Robert J. Shapera June 29, 1930 in New York, New York) is an American film producer best known for his work on Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, The Godfather and Chinatown
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Diana Vreeland (July 29, 1903 in Paris, France – August 22, 1989) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion.

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