• Name: Katharine Hepburn
  
• Birth Name: Katherine Hounghton Hepburn
  
• Height: 5' 7"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: May 12, 1907
  
• Birth Place: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
  
• Profession: actress, writer
  
• Education: Hartford School for Girls in Hartford, Connecticut
  
•   : Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (B.A., Drama, 1928)
  
• Place of Death: June 29, 2003 at 2:50 p.m
  
• Death Date: Connecticut, USA
  
• Husband/Wife: Ludlow Ogden Smith (aka S. Ogden Ludlow; married in 1928; divorced in 1934)
  
• Relationship: Leland Hayward (agent), Howard Hughes (producer, businessman), Spencer Tracy (actor; born on April 5, 1900)
  
• Father: Thomas N. Hepburn (surgeon; died in 1962)
  
• Mother: Katharine Hepburn (nee Houghton; a suffragette, birth-control activist)
  
• Sister: Peg Hepburn and Marianne Hepburn Grant
  
• Brother: Robert Hepburn and Richard Hepburn
  
• Niece: Katharine Houghton (actress)
  
• Claim to fame: as Eva Lovelace/Ada Love in Morning Glory (1933)
  

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• About her parents: "My parents were much more fascinating, as people, than I am."
• "I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical to love, honor and obey. If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract."
• In a 1990 interview: "I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven."
• Hepburn died at her home in Connecticut at the age of 96, police in her hometown said on Sunday. (June 30, 2003)
• On her failed marriage, she says she spent years "using" her husband: “I am looking back and realizing what the truth was. The motives back of the action. I don't think that it was all as cold-blooded as it sounds. I hope not. But the truth has to be that I was a terrible pig. My aim was ME ME ME. All the way — up — down — all about.”
• On her parents: “They were indeed amazing, these two. The door of our house was always open. Come In. Well, tell us about it. Come with us — spend the night — stay to lunch. No no, there's plenty of room, always. And I think, How I miss you two. I was so used to turning to you. It was heaven. Always to have you two to turn to in despair, in joy. There you were: strong — funny. Two rocks. What you did for me — wow! What luck to be born out of love and to live in an atmosphere of warmth and interest.”

• American Comedy Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy (1989)
• British Academy Award: Best Actress Leading, ON GOLDEN POND (1983)
• People's Choice Awards: Favorite Motion Picture Actress (1983)
• Academy Awards: Best Actress, ON GOLDEN POND (1982)
• American Movie Awards: Best Actress, ON GOLDEN POND (1982)
• Golden Apple Awards: Female Star of the Year (1981)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Life Achievement Award (1980)
• SAG Awards: Past Life Achievement Award 1979
• People's Choice Awards: Favorite Motion Picture Actress (1976)
• Emmy Awards: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy, LOVE AMONG THE RUINS (1975)
• Golden Apple Awards: Female Star of the Year (1975)
• Laurel Awards: Star - Female (1971)
• Laurel Awards: Female Star (1970)
• Laurel Awards: Female Dramatic Performance, THE LION IN WINTER (1970)
• Academy Awards: Best Actress, THE LION IN WINTER (1969)
• British Academy Award: Best Actress Leading, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1969)
• British Academy Award: Best Actress Leading, THE LION IN WINTER (1969)
• Academy Awards: Best Actress, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1968)
• Montréal World Film Festival: Special Prize of the Jury, GRACE QUIGLEY (1963)
• Cannes Film Festival: Best Actress, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (1962)
• Cannes Film Festival: Best Actress, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (1962)
• Hasty Pudding Theatricals: Woman of the Year (1958)
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Actress, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
• Venice Film Festival: Golden Medal - Best Actress, LITTLE WOMEN (1934)
• Academy Awards: Best Actress, MORNING GLORY (1934)

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