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Katharine Houghton

1945 - Today

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Katharine Houghton (born Katharine Houghton Grant; March 10, 1945) is an American actress and playwright. She portrayed Joanna "Joey" Drayton, a white woman who brings home her black 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 Houghton's aunt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Katharine Houghton has received more than 1,726,148 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Katharine Houghton is the 4,924th most popular actor (down from 1,898th in 2019), the 7,203rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,158th in 2019) and the 2,215th most popular American Actor.

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  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Katharine Houghton ranks 4,924 out of 13,578. Before her are Elçin Sangu, Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Jenny McCarthy, Rasim Balayev, Florence La Badie, and Patricia Wettig. After her are Vincent Spano, Ed Skrein, China Zorrilla, Im Yoon-ah, Melvil Poupaud, and Herbert Marshall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Katharine Houghton ranks 446. Before her are Eric Stewart, Enrique Borja, Lloyd Kaufman, Masahiro Hasemi, Gennady Burbulis, and Michael Cristofer. After her are Gloria Jones, Sylvia Vrethammar, Betty Davis, June Gable, Philip Pettit, and Zurab Sakandelidze.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Katharine Houghton ranks 7,203 out of 20,380. Before her are Ken Carpenter (1913), Monte Hellman (1932), Florence La Badie (1888), Neal E. Miller (1909), Patricia Wettig (1951), and Harry Reid (1939). After her are Frederick Seitz (1911), Vincent Spano (1962), Charles Sheeler (1883), Elaine May (1932), Gloria Jones (1945), and Michael E. Brown (1965).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Katharine Houghton ranks 2,215. Before her are Phoebe Cates (1963), Miles Teller (1987), Alison Arngrim (1962), Jenny McCarthy (1972), Florence La Badie (1888), and Patricia Wettig (1951). After her are Vincent Spano (1962), Jocelyn Brando (1919), Taylor Kinney (1981), Ginnifer Goodwin (1978), Kevin Tighe (1944), and Robert Armstrong (1890).

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