# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katharine-houghton
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:17:46.937Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katharine-houghton"
name: "Katharine Houghton"
slug: "katharine-houghton"
description: "Katharine Houghton 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. Houghton was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance. She is also known for her role as Kanna, the grandmother of Katara and Sokka in the film The Last Airbender (2010)."
tagline: "American actress, playwright"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katharine_Houghton_Judd_for_the_Defense_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1945-03-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.76760666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396455/"
    handle:    "nm0396455"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump