Cast & creator
Katharine Houghton
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, American Playhouse, Judd, for the Defense
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.
Also known as: Katharine Houghton Grant
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1962–2022 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (19)
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
American Playhouse
Mrs. Hale
1982
Judd, for the Defense
1967
The Adams Chronicles
Abigail Adams II
1976
The Last Airbender
Katara's Grandma
2010
ABC Stage 67
Bonnie
1966
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Joanna "Joey" Drayton
1967
Sidney
Self
2022
Billy Bathgate
Charlotte
1991
Kinsey
Mrs. Spaulding
2004
Let It Be Me
Homeless Woman
1995
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Self
2002
Mr. North
Mrs. Skeel
1988
Ethan Frome
Mrs. Hale
1993
The Night We Never Met
Less
1993
A Special Kind of Love
Self
2008
A Love Story of Today
Self
2008
The Eyes of the Amaryllis
Isabel
1982
The Gardener
Ellen Bennett
1974