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long list of google results all give 1939, I don't know where the editor got 1938. It's my understanding that people often give a wrong birthdate to seem younger. At any rate there's no ref for the statement. Added Golden Globe ref so ppl don't have to do math to get the right year
 
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| caption            = MacGraw in ''[[The Getaway (1972 film)|The Getaway]]'', 1972
| caption            = MacGraw in ''[[The Getaway (1972 film)|The Getaway]]'', 1972
| birth_name        = Elizabeth Alice MacGraw
| 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.<ref name=Weller>{{cite web|last=Weller|first=Sheila|date=March 2010|title=Once in Love with Ali|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|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}}</ref><ref>[https://goldenglobes.com/person/ali-macgraw/]</ref>}}
| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1939|4|1}}{{efn|Some sources incorrectly give 1938 as MacGraw's year of birth.<ref name=Weller>{{cite web|last=Weller|first=Sheila|date=March 2010|title=Once in Love with Ali|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Ali MacGraw | url=https://goldenglobes.com/person/ali-macgraw/ }}</ref>}}
| birth_place        = [[Pound Ridge, New York]], U.S.
| birth_place        = [[Pound Ridge, New York]], U.S.
| years_active      = 1960–present
| years_active      = 1960–present
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==Early life==
==Early life==
MacGraw was born in [[Pound Ridge, New York]],<ref>{{Cite book|first=Rick|last=Farrant|title=Somewhere Bluebirds Fly|year=2020|publisher= Dorrance Publishing Company|isbn=9781648042935|page=30}}</ref> the daughter of [[commercial art]]ists Frances (''née'' Klein)<ref>{{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}}</ref> and Richard MacGraw.<ref name=Weller/> She has one brother, Dick, an artist.<ref name=Weller/> 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.<ref name=Weller/><ref name=asl>{{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}}</ref><ref name="ref11">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
MacGraw was born in [[Pound Ridge, New York]],<ref>{{Cite book|first=Rick|last=Farrant|title=Somewhere Bluebirds Fly|year=2020|publisher= Dorrance Publishing Company|isbn=9781648042935|page=30}}</ref> the daughter of [[commercial art]]ists Frances (''née'' Klein)<ref>{{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}}</ref> and Richard MacGraw.<ref name=Weller/> She has one brother, Dick, an artist.<ref name=Weller/><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/archive/6814566/show-business-ali-macgraw-a-return-to-basics/|title=Show Business: Ali MacGraw: A Return to Basics|magazine=Time|date=January 11, 1971}}</ref> Her mother was Hungarian Jewish, the daughter of emigrants from [[Budapest]], Hungary, while her father had Scottish ancestry.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ali MacGraw - Trivia |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0532298/trivia/ |access-date=2025-10-16 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref> 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.<ref name=Weller/><ref name=asl>{{cite news| last=Kleiner| first=Dick| title=Ingenue Star Ali McGraw Is Selective About Parts| publisher=Tuscaloosa News|via=[[Google News]]|date=April 12, 1969| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ayceAAAAIBAJ&pg=5082,2539149|access-date=August 20, 2010}}</ref><ref name="ref11">{{cite news|last=Bykofsky|first=Stuart D.|title=Ali MacGraw: A Star by Chance|work=[[Philadelphia Daily News]]|via=newspapers.com|page=60|date=February 4, 1983|url=https://newspapers.com/image/185939211/|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>


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."<ref name=Weller/> 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."<ref name=Weller/> As an adult, he constantly suppressed the rage he built up against his parents.<ref name=Weller/> She described her father as "violent".<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|date=April 3, 2006|pages=69&ndash;70|url=https://nymag.com/arts/theater/profiles/16516/|title=A Long-Lost Love|first=Meryl|last=Gordon}}</ref>
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."<ref name=Weller/> 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."<ref name=Weller/> As an adult, he constantly suppressed the rage he built up against his parents.<ref name=Weller/> She described her father as "violent".<ref name=theater>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|date=April 3, 2006|pages=69&ndash;70|url=https://nymag.com/arts/theater/profiles/16516/|title=A Long-Lost Love|first=Meryl|last=Gordon}}</ref>


MacGraw attended [[Rosemary Hall (Greenwich, Connecticut)|Rosemary Hall]] in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]] and graduated from [[Wellesley College]] in [[Wellesley, Massachusetts]] in 1960.<ref name=Weller/>
MacGraw attended [[Rosemary Hall (Greenwich, Connecticut)|Rosemary Hall]] in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]] and graduated from [[Wellesley College]] in [[Wellesley, Massachusetts]] in 1960.<ref name=Weller/>
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===Early 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]].<ref name=Weller/> She worked at ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' magazine as a fashion model and as a photographer's stylist. She has also worked as an interior designer.<ref>[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.</ref>
Beginning in 1960, MacGraw spent six years working at ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'' magazine as a photographic assistant to fashion maven [[Diana Vreeland]].<ref name=Weller/><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Hyland|first=Véronique|url=https://www.thecut.com/2017/06/ali-macgraw-ibu-interview.html|title=Ali MacGraw Does Not Care for the Term ‘It’ Girl|website=[[The Cut (publication)|The Cut]]|date=June 5, 2017}}</ref> She worked at ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' magazine as a fashion model and as a photographer's stylist. She has also worked as an interior designer.<ref>[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.</ref> She was photographed for a [[Chanel]] ad in 1966.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Calkin|first=Jessamy|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/ali-macgrawi-1960s-hollywood-siren-married-sexiest-man-alive/|title=Ali MacGraw: I was a 1960s Hollywood siren married to the sexiest man alive, but I'm happier now I'm 80|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=July 13, 2019}}</ref>


===Film and television===
===Film and television===
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===Stage===
===Stage===
MacGraw made her Broadway theater debut in New York City in 2006 as a dysfunctional [[matriarch]] in the drama ''[[Festen (play)|Festen]]'' (''The Celebration'').
MacGraw made her Broadway theater debut in New York City in 2006 as a dysfunctional [[matriarch]] in the drama ''[[Festen (play)|Festen]]'' (''The Celebration'').<ref name=theater/><ref>{{Cite news|last=Robertson|first=Campbell|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/theater/proving-mortal-lestat-is-to-close.html|title=Proving Mortal, 'Lestat' Is to Close|newspaper=New York Times|date=May 24, 2006}}</ref>


In 2016, MacGraw reunited with Ryan O'Neal in a staging of [[A.R. Gurney]]'s play ''[[Love Letters (play)|Love Letters]]'', which toured the US and UK through 2017.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
In 2016, MacGraw reunited with Ryan O'Neal in a staging of [[A.R. Gurney]]'s play ''[[Love Letters (play)|Love Letters]]'', which toured the US and UK through 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hartigan|first=Patti|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|date=May 17, 2016}}</ref>


===Magazine recognition===
===Magazine recognition===
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===Yoga===
===Yoga===
Having become a [[Hatha Yoga]] devotee in her early 50s, MacGraw produced a [[yoga as exercise|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)|Vanity Fair]]'' magazine credited MacGraw with being one of the people responsible for the practice's recent popularity in the United States.
Having become a [[Hatha Yoga]] devotee in her early 50s, MacGraw produced a [[yoga as exercise|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)|Vanity Fair]]'' magazine credited MacGraw with being one of the people responsible for the practice's recent popularity in the United States.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/06/Planet-Yoga?srsltid=AfmBOoqUbrWvUQ3iU_uKY0hcafLl36DJXepWDXiKWfjXwXMoPyWFMj4Q|title=Planet Yoga|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=June 15, 2007}}</ref>


==Animal welfare==
==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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> In 2008, she wrote the foreword to the book ''[[Pawprints of Katrina]]''<ref>{{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}}</ref> by author [[Cathy Scott]] and photography by [[Clay Myers (photographer)|Clay Myers]] about [[Best Friends Animal Society]] and the largest pet rescue in U.S. history.<ref>{{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}}</ref> MacGraw is also a U.S. Ambassador for animal welfare charity [[Animals Asia Foundation|Animals Asia]]. She has been a life long lover of [[Scottish Terrier]]s, now having her sixth.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.animalsasia.org/us/about-us/patrons-ambassadors-and-celebrities/|title=Patrons, Ambassadors and Celebrities|website=AnimalsAsia.org}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> In 2007, she advocated to ban cock fighting in New Mexico.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kormann|first=Carolyn|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/ali-macgraw-why-i-gave-up-my-career-for-steve-mcqueen-pr0rv9clk|title=Ali MacGraw: Why I gave up my career for Steve McQueen|newspaper=The Times|date=September 26, 2017}}</ref> In 2008, she wrote the foreword to the book ''[[Pawprints of Katrina]]''<ref>{{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}}</ref> by author [[Cathy Scott]] and photography by [[Clay Myers (photographer)|Clay Myers]] about [[Best Friends Animal Society]] and the largest pet rescue in U.S. history.<ref>{{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}}</ref> MacGraw is also a U.S. Ambassador for animal welfare charity [[Animals Asia Foundation|Animals Asia]]. She has been a life long lover of [[Scottish Terrier]]s, now having her sixth.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.animalsasia.org/us/about-us/patrons-ambassadors-and-celebrities/|title=Patrons, Ambassadors and Celebrities|website=AnimalsAsia.org}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
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[[File:Ali MacGraw & Robert Evans Majalah Varianada Edisi 87 Tahun 1972.jpg|thumb|upright|With Robert Evans in 1972]]
[[File:Ali MacGraw & Robert Evans Majalah Varianada Edisi 87 Tahun 1972.jpg|thumb|upright|With Robert Evans in 1972]]
On October 24, 1969, MacGraw married film producer [[Robert Evans (film producer)|Robert Evans]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> Their son, [[Josh Evans (film producer)|Josh Evans]], is an actor, director, producer and screenwriter. They separated in 1972 after she became involved in a public affair with [[Steve McQueen (actor)|Steve McQueen]] on the set of ''[[The Getaway (1972 film)|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.<ref>Windeler, Robert (July 24, 1978). "[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20071340,00.html Ali's Back!]". ''People''.</ref>
On October 24, 1969, MacGraw married film producer [[Robert Evans (film producer)|Robert Evans]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> Their son, [[Josh Evans (film producer)|Josh Evans]], is an actor, director, producer and screenwriter. They separated in 1972 after she became involved in a public affair with [[Steve McQueen (actor)|Steve McQueen]] on the set of ''[[The Getaway (1972 film)|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.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Windeler|first=Robert|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20071340,00.html|title=Ali's Back!|magazine=People|date=July 24, 1978|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922174950/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20071340,00.html|archive-date=September 22, 2008}}</ref>


In the nearly half-century since her divorce from McQueen, MacGraw has never remarried. She dated [[Warren Beatty]], [[Rick Danko]], [[Bill Hudson (singer)|Bill Hudson]], [[Ronald Meyer]], [[Rod Stryker]], [[Fran Tarkenton]], [[Peter Weller]], [[Henry Wolf]] and [[Mickey Raphael]].<ref name=Flippo/><ref>{{Cite book|first=Bill|last=Hudson|title=2 Versions: The Other Side of Fame and Family|year=2011|publisher=Dailey Swan Publishing|isbn=9780983809005}}</ref>
In the nearly half-century since her divorce from McQueen, MacGraw has never remarried. She dated [[Warren Beatty]], [[Rick Danko]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/483011825/|title=Ali MacGraw bags Rick Danko|newspaper=NY Daily News|via=Newspapers.com|date=January 26, 1978}}</ref>, [[Bill Hudson (singer)|Bill Hudson]], [[Ronald Meyer]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/books/review/powerhouse-creative-artists-agency-james-andrew-miller.html|title=Power, Ambition and Betrayal in Hollywood: James B. Stewart on ‘Powerhouse’|newspaper=New York Times|date=August 9, 2016|quote=The actress Ali MacGraw packed her suitcase and walked out of a passionate romance with Meyer when he wouldn’t get off the phone with a client early one Saturday morning}}</ref>, [[Rod Stryker]], [[Fran Tarkenton]], [[Peter Weller]]<ref name=Weller/>, [[Henry Wolf]]<ref name=Weller/> and [[Mickey Raphael]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-08-vw-4845-story.html|title=The root beer -colored Chevy convertible with...|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=February 8, 1985|quote=Ali MacGraw bought her boyfriend Mickey Raphael a necklace}}</ref><ref name=Flippo/><ref>{{Cite book|first=Bill|last=Hudson|title=2 Versions: The Other Side of Fame and Family|year=2011|publisher=Dailey Swan Publishing|isbn=9780983809005}}</ref>


MacGraw's autobiography, ''Moving Pictures'', revealed her [[alcoholism|struggles with alcohol]] and [[sex addiction]]. She was treated for the former at the [[Betty Ford Center]].
MacGraw's autobiography, ''Moving Pictures'', revealed her [[alcoholism|struggles with alcohol]] and [[sex addiction]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sherrill|first=Martha|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/06/18/the-regrets-of-the-real-ali-macgraw/216f74d4-80b0-4452-b076-56827480dfb6/|title=The Regrets of the Real Ali Macgraw|newspaper=Washington Post|date=June 18, 1991}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{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}}</ref> Evans told ''Vanity Fair'' in 2010 that MacGraw had been a close friend of his despite their divorce.<ref name=Weller/>
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]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{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}}</ref> Evans told ''Vanity Fair'' in 2010 that MacGraw had been a close friend of his despite their divorce.<ref name=Weller/>


MacGraw has lived in [[Tesuque, New Mexico]], since 1994, after the house she rented in [[Malibu, California|Malibu]] was destroyed by a fire.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> She was originally intended to make a cameo as herself in the ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' episode "[[Grey Matter (Breaking Bad)|Grey Matter]]" as a guest at the birthday party of character [[List_of_Breaking_Bad_and_Better_Call_Saul_characters#Gretchen_and_Elliott_Schwartz|Elliott Schwartz]], set in [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]], but her appearance did not make the final cut of the episode.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
MacGraw has lived in [[Tesuque, New Mexico]], since 1994, after the house she rented in [[Malibu, California|Malibu]] was destroyed by a fire.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1993/more/news/fires-hit-celeb-homes-115634/|title=Fires hit celeb homes|magazine=Variety|date=November 3, 1993}}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref> She was originally intended to make a cameo as herself in the ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' episode "[[Grey Matter (Breaking Bad)|Grey Matter]]" as a guest at the birthday party of character [[List_of_Breaking_Bad_and_Better_Call_Saul_characters#Gretchen_and_Elliott_Schwartz|Elliott Schwartz]], set in [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]], but her appearance did not make the final cut of the episode.<ref>{{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}}</ref>


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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[1] 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,[2] the daughter of commercial artists Frances (née Klein)[3] and Richard MacGraw.[4] She has one brother, Dick, an artist.[4][5] Her mother was Hungarian Jewish, the daughter of emigrants from Budapest, Hungary, while her father had Scottish ancestry.[6] 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.[4][7][8][9]

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."[4] 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."[4] As an adult, he constantly suppressed the rage he built up against his parents.[4] She described her father as "violent".[10]

MacGraw attended Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Connecticut and graduated from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1960.[4]

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.[4][11] She worked at Vogue magazine as a fashion model and as a photographer's stylist. She has also worked as an interior designer.[12] She was photographed for a Chanel ad in 1966.[13]

Film and television

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With Richard Benjamin in Goodbye, Columbus (1969)

MacGraw began her acting career in television commercials, including one for the Polaroid Swinger camera.[14] 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.[15] 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.

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Ali MacGraw placing her hand prints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre 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.[16] She appeared in 14 episodes of the show before her character was killed off in the "Moldavian Massacre" cliffhanger episode in 1985.

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Ali MacGraw in The Getaway, 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.[17]

Stage

MacGraw made her Broadway theater debut in New York City in 2006 as a dysfunctional matriarch in the drama Festen (The Celebration).[10][18]

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.[19]

Magazine recognition

In 1991, People magazine selected MacGraw as one of its "50 Most Beautiful People" in the World.[20]

In 2008, GQ magazine listed her in their "Sexiest 25 Women in Film Ever" edition.[21]

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.[22]

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.[23] In 2007, she advocated to ban cock fighting in New Mexico.[24] In 2008, she wrote the foreword to the book Pawprints of Katrina[25] by author Cathy Scott and photography by Clay Myers about Best Friends Animal Society and the largest pet rescue in U.S. history.[26] 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.[27] 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.[28]

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.[29] They divorced in July 1962.[29][30] Hoen died on September 13, 2016.[31]

Following her first divorce, MacGraw had a string of relationships and one abortion; the procedure was still illegal at the time.[32] 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.[32]

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With Robert Evans in 1972

On October 24, 1969, MacGraw married film producer Robert Evans.[33] 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.[34]

In the nearly half-century since her divorce from McQueen, MacGraw has never remarried. She dated Warren Beatty, Rick Danko[35], Bill Hudson, Ronald Meyer[36], Rod Stryker, Fran Tarkenton, Peter Weller[4], Henry Wolf[4] and Mickey Raphael.[37][30][38]

MacGraw's autobiography, Moving Pictures, revealed her struggles with alcohol and sex addiction.[39] 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.[40][41] 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."[42] Evans told Vanity Fair in 2010 that MacGraw had been a close friend of his despite their divorce.[4]

MacGraw has lived in Tesuque, New Mexico, since 1994, after the house she rented in Malibu was destroyed by a fire.[43][44] 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.[45]

Filmography

Feature films

Year Title Role 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

Year Title Role Notes
1983 The Winds of War Natalie Jastrow Miniseries
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

Documentaries

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

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