Katharine Houghton

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Katharine Houghton (born Katharine Houghton Grant; March 10, 1945) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Joanna "Joey" Drayton, a Caucasian woman who brings home an African-American 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 in real life Houghton's aunt. Description above from the Wikipedia article Katharine Houghton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Filmography

All 18Movies 14TV 4

Sidney

Self

The Last Airbender

Katara's Grandma

A Love Story of Today

Self

A Special Kind of Love

Self

Kinsey

Mrs. Spaulding

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

Self

Let It Be Me

Homeless Woman

The Night We Never Met

Less

Ethan Frome

Mrs. Hale

Billy Bathgate

Charlotte

Mr. North

Mrs. Skeel

The Eyes of the Amaryllis

Isabel

The Adams Chronicles

Abigail Adams II

The Gardener

Ellen Bennett

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Joanna "Joey" Drayton

Judd, for the Defense

1967

ABC Stage 67

Bonnie

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self