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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 1,554,651 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Katharine Houghton is the 4,921st most popular actor (down from 1,898th in 2019), the 7,202nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,158th in 2019) and the 2,214th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Katharine Houghtons by language

Over the past year Katharine Houghton has had the most page views in the with 282,239 views, followed by Italian (14,891), and German (9,856). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (148.36%), English (86.32%), and Spanish (85.59%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Katharine Houghton ranks 4,921 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 7,202 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 2,214. 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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Television and Movie Roles

Kinsey
Mrs. Spaulding
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.
Sep 4o 20046.622 / 10
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Joanna "Joey" Drayton
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Dec 11o 19677.563 / 10
The Last Airbender
Katara's Grandma
The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
Jun 30o 20104.659 / 10