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KATHARINE HEPBURN MOST OSCAR WINS OF ANY ACTOR

FULL NAME: Katharine Houghton Hepburn

BORN: MAY 12, 1907, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, U.S.A.

DIED: JUNE 29, 2003, FENWICK, CONNECTICUT, U.S.A.

NATIONALITY: AMERICAN

During her 60-plus-year career of four Oscar wins, Katharine Hepburn attended the ceremony only once—to give an award to someone else!

SPARKLING 60-YEAR CAREER

With her first public performance at the age eight as part of a rally for women’s right to vote, Katharine Hepburn embarked on a sparkling career that lasted more than 60 years. In that time, she acted in 52 feature films and was nominated for 12 Academy Awards (Oscars). Katharine is the winner of the most Oscars—four—of any actor in history. The first she won in 1933, at the age of 25, for Morning Glory; her final three were won after she had turned 60.

FABULOUS FIRSTS
	FIRST (AND ONLY) ACTOR TO WIN FOUR OSCARS

Katharine’s parents supported the women’s suffrage (right to vote) movement and instilled in Katharine the belief that she could do anything.

U.S. postage stamp, circa 2010, commemorating the great Hollywood actress

GREATEST SCREEN LEGEND

One of Hollywood’s great screen beauties, Katharine was considered a tomboy from an early age. She is even known to have referred to herself as “Jimmy” in her childhood. Katharine’s parents were very progressive and fought hard for women’s rights. They filled the young Katharine with determination and fierce independence. In the difficult world of Hollywood, this sense of self-assurance would serve her well in managing her career exactly as she chose. She was known for refusing to conform to Hollywood’s expectations of women. She was a modern woman: she wore pants at a time when it was hugely unfashionable for women to do so, and she was assertive and lived her life to her own design.

Katharine’s first movie was the 1932 hit drama A Bill of Divorcement, and it made her an overnight star. She was adept at everything from literary drama to comedy. Her performance as Jo March in Little Women (1933) is considered one of her finest, and her role in The Philadelphia Story (1940) is the one for which she is best known. Katharine is considered by many, including the American Film Institute, to be the greatest female screen legend of all time.