Katharine Houghton

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Katharine Houghton (born Katharine Houghton Grant; March 10, 1945) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Joanna "Joey" Drayton, a Caucasian woman who brings home an African-American fiancé to meet her parents, in the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Katharine Hepburn, who played the mother of Houghton's character in the film, was in real life Houghton's aunt. Description above from the Wikipedia article Katharine Houghton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Known For

Katara's Grandma

The Last Airbender

Joanna "Joey" Drayton

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Ellen Bennett

The Gardener

Self

Sidney

Mrs. Hale

Ethan Frome

Mrs. Spaulding

Kinsey

Less

The Night We Never Met

Mrs. Skeel

Mr. North

Charlotte

Billy Bathgate

Self

A Special Kind of Love

Self

A Love Story of Today

Isabel

The Eyes of the Amaryllis

Self

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

Homeless Woman

Let It Be Me