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Ali Mcgraw [Photos] - Elizabeth Alice "Ali" MacGraw is an American actress. She first gained attention for her role in Goodbye, Columbus in 1969, for which she won a Golden Globe Award, followed by Love Story in 1970, for which she received an Academy Award nomination and won a second Golden Globe. She married actor Steve McQueen in 1973, after appearing with him in the 1972 film The Getaway. After that, MacGraw did not make another film for six years and later retired altogether from show business.


Ali MacGraw was born in Pound Ridge, New York, the daughter of commercial artists Frances (née Klein) and Richard MacGraw.She has one brother, Dick, an artist.Her father was of Scottish descent and her maternal grandparents were from Hungary.

MacGraw's mother was from a Jewish family, but did not disclose this to MacGraw's father.MacGraw has described her father as "violent".

MacGraw is an alumna of Rosemary Hall (now Choate Rosemary Hall, class of 1955) in Wallingford, Connecticut and Wellesley College (class of 1960), Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_MacGraw