Ali MacGraw

{{Infobox person

| name = Ali MacGraw

| image = Ali MacGraw - 1972.jpg

| caption = MacGraw in The Getaway, 1972

| birth_name = Elizabeth Alice MacGraw

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1939|4|1}}{{efn|Some sources incorrectly give 1938 as MacGraw's year of birth.{{cite web|last=Weller|first=Sheila|date=March 2010|title=Once in Love with Ali|work=Vanity Fair|page=5|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/03/ali-macgraw-201003|quote=In the original version of this article, Ali MacGraw's age last April was originally stated as 71. She turned 70 last April. We regret the error.|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110301053716/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/03/ali-macgraw-201003|archive-date= March 1, 2011 | url-status= live}}[https://goldenglobes.com/person/ali-macgraw/]}}

| birth_place = Pound Ridge, New York, U.S.

| years_active = 1960–present

| alma_mater = Wellesley College

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|Robin Hoen|1960|1962|end=divorced}}
{{marriage|Robert Evans|1969|1973|end=divorced}}
{{marriage|Steve McQueen|1973|1978|end=divorced}}

}}

| children = Josh Evans

| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|model|author|animal welfare activist}}

}}

Elizabeth Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1939) is an American actress. For her role in Goodbye, Columbus (1969) she won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She then starred in Love Story (1970), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In 1972, MacGraw was voted the top female film star in the world{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19720120&id=1AQkAAAAIBAJ&pg=4565,306572|title=Poll Names Charles Bronson, Ali MacGraw, Sean Connery|work=Toledo Blade|date=January 20, 1972|via=Google News|access-date=February 1, 2017}} and was honored with a hands and footprints ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre after having made just three films. She went on to star in The Getaway (1972), Convoy (1978), Players (1979), Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), and The Winds of War (1983). In 1991, she published an autobiography, Moving Pictures.

Early life

MacGraw was born in Pound Ridge, New York,{{Cite book|first=Rick|last=Farrant|title=Somewhere Bluebirds Fly|year=2020|publisher= Dorrance Publishing Company|isbn=9781648042935|page=30}} the daughter of commercial artists Frances (née Klein){{cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGB8-J45|work=FamilySearch|title=Person Details for Frances Macgraw|access-date=December 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212093557/https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGB8-J45|archive-date=February 12, 2015}} and Richard MacGraw. She has one brother, Dick, an artist. Her mother was Hungarian Jewish, the daughter of emigrants from Budapest, Hungary. MacGraw's mother chose not to disclose her ancestry to Ali's father, instead professing ignorance about it. "I think Daddy was bigoted," MacGraw has said.{{cite news| last=Kleiner| first=Dick| title=Ingenue Star Ali McGraw Is Selective About Parts| publisher=Tuscaloosa News| date=April 12, 1969| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ayceAAAAIBAJ&pg=5082,2539149|access-date=August 20, 2010}}{{cite news|last=Bykofsky|first=Stuart D.|title=Ali MacGraw: A Star by Chance|work=Philadelphia Daily News|page=60|date=February 4, 1983|url=https://newspapers.com/image/185939211/|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishtampa.com/jews-in-the-news/jews-in-the-news-fred-savage-herman-wouk-and-ali-macgraw|title=Jews in the News: Fred Savage, Herman Wouk and Ali MacGraw|website=JewishTampa.com}}

Her mother was considered a "pioneer" as an artist, who had taught in Paris before settling in Greenwich Village. Her parents married when her mother was nearing 35: "My gorgeous father: a combination of Tyrone Power and a mystery, a brilliant artist and a brain beyond brains." He was born in New Jersey with his childhood spent in an orphanage. He ran away to sea when he was 16 and studied art in Munich. MacGraw adds, "Daddy was frightened and really, really angry. He never forgave his real parents for giving him up." As an adult, he constantly suppressed the rage he built up against his parents. She described her father as "violent".{{cite magazine|magazine=New York|date=April 3, 2006|pages=69–70|url=https://nymag.com/arts/theater/profiles/16516/|title=A Long-Lost Love|first=Meryl|last=Gordon}}

MacGraw attended Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Connecticut and graduated from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1960.

Career

=Early career=

Beginning in 1960, MacGraw spent six years working at Harper's Bazaar magazine as a photographic assistant to fashion maven Diana Vreeland. She worked at Vogue magazine as a fashion model and as a photographer's stylist. She has also worked as an interior designer.[https://www.interiormonologue.com/design/blog-post-title-one-hya5f-7bf67-sfg5a-p7pdh-efnsd-pbzp9-cj6rr-cnajc-s7j3f-3rh37-m4pyt-mgj36-pekdd-gbynr-y89jc-4wgcf "ALI MACGRAW + IBU MOVEMENT"]. Interior Monologue. May 15, 2024.

=Film and television=

File:Ali MacGraw-Richard Benjamin in Goodbye, Columbus trailer.jpg in Goodbye, Columbus (1969)]]

MacGraw began her acting career in television commercials, including one for the Polaroid Swinger camera.{{cite magazine|title=Meet the Swinger|last=Lippert|first=Barbara|magazine=Advertising Age|date=June 25, 2018|page=32}} In one commercial for International Paper, she was on a beach in a bikini made of Confil and went for a swim underwater to prove its strength and durability. MacGraw gained widespread attention with Goodbye, Columbus (1969), her first leading role, but real stardom came when she starred opposite Ryan O'Neal in Love Story (1970), one of the highest-grossing films in U.S. history.{{cite news|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm|title=Domestic Grosses|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628045843/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm|archive-date=June 28, 2012|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=June 25, 2012}} The film, and MacGraw's performance in particular, received widespread critical acclaim, and earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, in addition to a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Following Love Story, MacGraw was celebrated on the cover of Time.

File:Ali MacGraw placing her hand prints in cement at Chinese Theater.jpg in 1972]]

In 1972, after appearing in just three films, she had her footprints and autograph engraved at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. She then starred opposite Steve McQueen in The Getaway (1972), which was one of the year's top ten films at the box office. Having taken a five-year break from acting, in 1978 MacGraw re-emerged in another box office hit, Convoy (1978), opposite Kris Kristofferson. She then appeared in the films Players (1979) and Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), directed by Sidney Lumet.

In 1983, MacGraw starred in the highly successful television miniseries The Winds of War. In 1985, MacGraw joined hit ABC prime-time soap opera Dynasty as Lady Ashley Mitchell, which, she admitted in a 2011 interview, she did for the money.{{cite web |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/01/15/ali-macgraw-reflects-on-her-career-in-front-of-the-camera/ |url-access=subscription |title=Ali MacGraw Reflects on Her Career in Front of the Camera |first=Todd |last=Gilchrist |date=January 15, 2011 |work=Speakeasy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110118014124/http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/01/15/ali-macgraw-reflects-on-her-career-in-front-of-the-camera |archive-date=January 18, 2011 |url-status=live}} She appeared in 14 episodes of the show before her character was killed off in the "Moldavian Massacre" cliffhanger episode in 1985.

File:Alimacgraw.jpg, 1972]]

She also hosted segments for the Encore Love Stories premium cable network in the late 1990s and 2000s.

In February 2021, MacGraw and O'Neal were honored with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 50 years after the release of Love Story.{{cite news |title='Love Story' stars Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal honored on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-film-love-story-walk-of-fame/love-story-stars-ali-macgraw-ryan-oneal-honored-on-hollywoods-walk-of-fame-idUSKBN2AD01F |access-date=February 14, 2021 |work=Reuters |date=February 13, 2021}}

=Stage=

MacGraw made her Broadway theater debut in New York City in 2006 as a dysfunctional matriarch in the drama Festen (The Celebration).

In 2016, MacGraw reunited with Ryan O'Neal in a staging of A.R. Gurney's play Love Letters, which toured the US and UK through 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2016/01/28/for-macgraw-and-neal-been-years-between-love-stories/Wvee6C387zAcF2IKgIRQDJ/story.html|title=For Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, 45 years between love stories |work=The Boston Globe}}

=Magazine recognition=

In 1991, People magazine selected MacGraw as one of its "50 Most Beautiful People" in the World.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20122069,00.html |title=Beautiful Through the Years |date=May 12, 1997 |volume=47 |number=18 |magazine=People |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602084013/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20122069,00.html |archive-date=June 2, 2009}}

In 2008, GQ magazine listed her in their "Sexiest 25 Women in Film Ever" edition.{{cite web|url=http://boxwish.com/blog/view/375-gq-magazine-names-the-sexiest-25-women-in-film-ever|title=GQ magazine names the sexiest 25 women in film ever|publisher=Boxwish|access-date=June 9, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090406063939/http://boxwish.com/blog/view/375-gq-magazine-names-the-sexiest-25-women-in-film-ever|archive-date=April 6, 2009}}

=Yoga=

Having become a Hatha Yoga devotee in her early 50s, MacGraw produced a yoga video with the American Yoga Master Erich Schiffmann, Ali MacGraw Yoga Mind and Body. The impact of this bestselling video was such that in June 2007, Vanity Fair magazine credited MacGraw with being one of the people responsible for the practice's recent popularity in the United States.

Animal welfare

In July 2006, MacGraw filmed a public service announcement for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), urging residents to take their pets with them in the event of wildfires.{{cite press release |url=http://sev.prnewswire.com/publishing-information-services/20071025/AQW25324102007-1.html |title=PETA Offers Southern California Residents Urgent Information for Safeguarding Animals During Evacuations |publisher=People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals |via=PR Newswire |date=October 24, 2007 |access-date=June 9, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415230859/http://sev.prnewswire.com/publishing-information-services/20071025/AQW25324102007-1.html |archive-date=April 15, 2009 }} In 2008, she wrote the foreword to the book Pawprints of Katrina{{cite web|url=http://wileyptnews.com/2008/07/28/scott-pawprints_of_katrina|title=Pawprints of Katrina tells stories of animal rescues in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina |work=Wiley PT Press Room |date=July 28, 2008|access-date=June 9, 2009| url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415094638/http://wileyptnews.com/2008/07/28/scott-pawprints_of_katrina/ |archive-date=April 15, 2009}} by author Cathy Scott and photography by Clay Myers about Best Friends Animal Society and the largest pet rescue in U.S. history.{{cite press release |url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1035454.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415185832/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1035454.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 15, 2009 |title=Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned |via=PRWeb |date=June 20, 2008 |access-date=June 9, 2009}} MacGraw is also a U.S. Ambassador for animal welfare charity Animals Asia. She has been a life long lover of Scottish Terriers, now having her sixth.{{Cite web|url=https://www.animalsasia.org/us/about-us/patrons-ambassadors-and-celebrities/|title=Patrons, Ambassadors and Celebrities|website=AnimalsAsia.org}} An animal welfare advocate throughout her life, she received the Humane Education Award by Animal Protection of New Mexico for speaking out about animal issues.{{cite web |url=http://www.apnm.org/about/2001_accomplishments.php |title=2001 Accomplishments |publisher=Animal Protection of New Mexico |website=APNM.org |access-date=June 9, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415203005/http://www.apnm.org/about/2001_accomplishments.php|archive-date=April 15, 2009|url-status=dead}}

Personal life

While in college, MacGraw met German Canadian Robert "Robin" Martin Hoen, a Harvard-educated banker, and the couple married on October 29, 1960.{{cite book|author=MacGraw, Ali|title=Moving Pictures|year=1991|publisher=Bantam|isbn=0553072706}} They divorced in July 1962.{{cite magazine |title=Ali MacGraw Hopes War Finally Will Bring Her Peace |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20084281,00.html |first=Chet |last=Flippo |author-link=Chet Flippo |magazine=People |date=February 14, 1983 |volume=19 |number=6 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222045853/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20084281,00.html |archive-date=February 22, 2014 |url-status=dead}} Hoen died on September 13, 2016.{{cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/robert-hoen-obituary?pid=181446295 |title=Obituary of Robert "Robin" Martin Hoen |website=Legacy.com |date=September 17, 2016 |access-date=April 10, 2019}}

Following her first divorce, MacGraw had a string of relationships and one abortion; the procedure was still illegal at the time.{{cite web |last=MacGraw |first=Ali |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20091435,00.html|title=When Abortion Was Illegal – Personal Tragedy, Coping and Overcoming Illness|work=People |date=August 5, 1985 |volume=24 |number=6 |access-date=June 9, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090406075653/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20091435,00.html |archive-date=April 6, 2009}} In 1979, MacGraw's mother, who was 38 when she gave birth to her, revealed that she had an abortion of her own in the early 1920s.

File:Ali MacGraw & Robert Evans Majalah Varianada Edisi 87 Tahun 1972.jpg

On October 24, 1969, MacGraw married film producer Robert Evans.{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/10/28/774171143/the-kid-bows-out-movie-producer-robert-evans-dies-at-89 |title=The Kid Bows Out: Movie Producer Robert Evans Dies At 89 |work=National Public Radio |date=October 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200116024559/https://www.npr.org/2019/10/28/774171143/the-kid-bows-out-movie-producer-robert-evans-dies-at-89 |archive-date=January 16, 2020 |url-status=live}} Their son, Josh Evans, is an actor, director, producer and screenwriter. They separated in 1972 after she became involved in a public affair with Steve McQueen on the set of The Getaway. MacGraw's divorce from Evans was finalized on June 7, 1973, and on July 12, she married McQueen in Cheyenne, Wyoming. They divorced in August 1978.Windeler, Robert (July 24, 1978). "[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20071340,00.html Ali's Back!]". People.

In the nearly half-century since her divorce from McQueen, MacGraw has never remarried. She dated Warren Beatty, Rick Danko, Bill Hudson, Ronald Meyer, Rod Stryker, Fran Tarkenton, Peter Weller, Henry Wolf and Mickey Raphael.{{Cite book|first=Bill|last=Hudson|title=2 Versions: The Other Side of Fame and Family|year=2011|publisher=Dailey Swan Publishing|isbn=9780983809005}}

MacGraw's autobiography, Moving Pictures, revealed her struggles with alcohol and sex addiction. She was treated for the former at the Betty Ford Center.

When ex-husband Evans received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2002, she accompanied him. Their grandson Jackson was born in December 2010 to Josh and his wife, singer Roxy Saint.{{cite web |url=https://fabiosa.com/ctentlfs-rsafr-auimk-pbimk-phisl-ali-macgraw-s-only-son-is-her-favorite-human-being/ |title=Ali MacGraw's Only Son Is Her "Favorite Human Being" And Is Doing Great Things in Hollywood |first=Francie |last=Hogg |date=February 6, 2020 |access-date=February 14, 2021 |archive-date=May 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515235541/https://fabiosa.com/ctentlfs-rsafr-auimk-pbimk-phisl-ali-macgraw-s-only-son-is-her-favorite-human-being/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://en.newsner.com/celebrity/ali-macgraws-son-josh-evans-is-all-grown-up-at-49-he-looks-just-like-his-celebrity-mother/ |title=Ali MacGraw's son Josh Evans is all grown up – at 49, he looks just like his celebrity mother |first=Rasmus |last=Senator |date=November 27, 2020 |access-date=February 14, 2021}} After Evans' 2019 death, MacGraw told The Hollywood Reporter, "Our son, Joshua, and I will miss Bob tremendously, and we are so very proud of his enormous contribution to the film industry."{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-evans-dead-obit-paramount-chinatown-250797|title=Robert Evans, Producer Who Brought Paramount Back From the Brink, Dies at 89|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=October 28, 2019 |author1=Barnes, Mike |author2=Byrge, Duane |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101023858/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-evans-dead-obit-paramount-chinatown-250797 |archive-date=November 1, 2019 |url-status=live}} Evans told Vanity Fair in 2010 that MacGraw had been a close friend of his despite their divorce.

MacGraw has lived in Tesuque, New Mexico, since 1994, after the house she rented in Malibu was destroyed by a fire.{{cite news |last=Faber |first=Judy |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ali-macgraw-defining-beauty/ |work=CBS News |title=Ali MacGraw, Defining Beauty |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227054509/https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/05/entertainment/main3576429.shtml|archive-date=February 27, 2009|url-status=live | date=December 5, 2007 }} She was originally intended to make a cameo as herself in the Breaking Bad episode "Grey Matter" as a guest at the birthday party of character Elliott Schwartz, set in Santa Fe, but her appearance did not make the final cut of the episode.{{cite web |title="Grey Matter" screenplay |first=Patty |last=Lin |author-link=Patty Lin |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/31911748/breaking-bad-1x04-grey-matterpdf |website=Yumpu}}

Filmography

=Feature films=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1968

|A Lovely Way to Die

|Melody

1969

|Goodbye, Columbus

|Brenda Patimkin

|Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer

1970

|Love Story

|Jennifer Cavilleri

|Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress

1972

|The Getaway

|Carol McCoy

1978

|Convoy

|Melissa

1979

|Players

|Nicole Boucher

1980

|Just Tell Me What You Want

|Bones Burton

1985

|Murder Elite

|Diane Baker

1994

|Natural Causes

|Fran Jakes

1997

|Glam

|Lynn Travers

1999

|Get Bruce

|Herself

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1983

|The Winds of War

|Natalie Jastrow

|Miniseries

1983

|China Rose

|Rose

|TV movie

1985

|Dynasty

|Lady Ashley Mitchell

|14 episodes

1992

|Survive the Savage Sea

|Claire Carpenter

|TV movie

1993

|Gunsmoke: The Long Ride

|Uncle Jane Merkel

|TV movie

=Documentaries=

class="wikitable sortable unsortable"
Year ! Title
2002 \|The Trail of the Painted Ponies
2005 \|Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
2007 \|Do You Sleep in the Nude?
2009 \|Split Estate
2010 \|Landscapes of Enchantment
2012 \|Valles Caldera: The Science

class="wikitable sortable unsortable"

Year

! Title

2002

|The Trail of the Painted Ponies

2005

|Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

2007

|Do You Sleep in the Nude?

2009

|Split Estate

2010