Katharine Ross | 80

Katherine Ross is both beautiful and talented, these two were her investments when she joined the film industry. This paved the way for her to do more prominent roles because of her great acting skills. She managed to earn multiple accolades for these. In 1967, she gained fame as “The Graduate” and won the Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for the Most Promising Newcomer awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. In 1969, she won the Best Actress Award in 1970 by the American Academy of Film and Television for her two films, “The Sharpshooter and the Chidoo” and “Tell Them Willie Is Here”.

The roles that made her earned the prestigious awards were Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Voyage of the Damned. Her career and her life is certainly a colorful one. These days, however, she’s living comfortably with her husband Sam Elliott. Ross is now 80 years old, but still has no plans when it comes to retiring.

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