Age: 86
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Katharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940)[1] is an American film, stage, and television actress. Her accolades include one Academy Award nomination, one BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. A native of Los Angeles, Ross spent most of her early life in the San Francisco Bay Area. After attending Santa Rosa Junior College for one year, Ross joined The Actors Workshop in San Francisco, and began appearing in theatrical productions. Ross made her film debut in the Civil War-themed drama Shenandoah (1965), and had supporting parts in Mister Buddwing (1965) and The Singing Nun (1966) before being cast in Curtis Harrington's Games (1967), a thriller co-starring James Caan and Simone Signoret. At Signoret's recommendation, Ross was cast as Elaine Robinson in Mike Nichols' comedy-drama The Graduate (1967), which saw her receive significant critical acclaim, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, a BAFTA nomination, and Golden Globe win for New Star of the Year. In (1968) Ross co-starred in the John Wayne movie "Hellfighters" playing his daughter Tish Buckman. She garnered further acclaim for her roles in two 1969 western films: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, for both of which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress. In the 1970s, Ross had a leading role in the horror film The Stepford Wives (1975), for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Actress, and won her second Golden Globe Award for her performance in the drama Voyage of the Damned (1976). Other roles during this period included in disaster film The Swarm (1978), the supernatural horror film The Legacy (1978), and the science fiction film The Final Countdown (1980). Ross spent the majority of the 1980s appearing in a number of television films, including Murder in Texas (1981) and The Shadow Riders (1982), and later starred on the network series The Colbys from 1985 to 1987. Ross spent the majority of the 1990s in semiretirement, though she returned to film with a supporting part in Richard Kelly's cult film Donnie Darko (2001). In 2016, she provided a voice role for the animated comedy series American Dad!, and in 2017 starred in the comedy-drama The Hero, opposite her husband, Sam Elliott.
Katherine Ross
Elizabeth Ross (1974)
for Elizabeth Ross (1974) in Marvels: The Incredible Hulk (1973-1988)
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Before the existence of Kenneth Johnson's The Incredible Hulk, Universal wanted to bank on the idea of the Hulk being in Live Action. Bill Bixby later produced the two later Marvelsverse Hulk films before finishing his journey as David Banner in the late 80s TV Movies. After Phase 1, Sam Waterston would not reprise the role of Bruce Banner, who by the time of the release of The Incredible Hulk: Return of the Beast would have been 44 years old, chose to retire from the role. Marvel confirmed they let him go from the role after finishing the Avengers, They would suggest Mark Harmon as the Scientist. Another person who would not return in the role during the Hulk casting is Katherine Ross as Betty Ross and was replaced by Karen Allen and Luke Perry replacing Robby Benson for Rick Jones.
