Date of Birth : Apr 1st 1938
She gained notice in Goodbye, Columbus, but real stardom came in 1970 with Love Story, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Following this, MacGraw was featured on the cover of Time magazine. In 1971, she also appeared on Richard Blackwell’s worst-dressed list.
In 1972, after appearing in only four films, she had her footprints and autograph engraved at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. In 1972, she co-starred in the action adventure film The Getaway with Steve McQueen, whom she married in 1973. Taking a break from acting, she re-emerged in the 1978 film Convoy, Players (1979), Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), and then the 1983 television miniseries China Rose and The Winds of War. In 1984, MacGraw joined the hit ABC prime-time soap opera Dynasty as “Lady Ashley Mitchell”. She appeared in 14 episodes of the show before her character became one of the few casualties of the infamous “Muldavian wedding massacre” cliffhanger in 1985.
MacGraw wrote an autobiography, Moving Pictures (which she now states was “not well written”), which described her struggles with alcohol and male dependence. She was treated for the former at the Betty Ford Center. In 1991, People magazine chose her as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. Since 1994, she has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after “fleeing Malibu”. Having become a Hatha Yoga devotee in her fifties, she made a tremendously successful Yoga video with the American Yoga Master Erich Schiffmann, Ali MacGraw Yoga Mind and Body, which was a bestseller upon release and was still popular more than a decade later. The video’s impact was such that in June 2007 Vanity Fair magazine credited her for being one of the people responsible for the practice’s recent popularity in the United States. In keeping with her interests, she narrated a documentary, The Fire of Yoga, in 2003.
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Convoy ( 1978 )
Love Story ( 1971 )