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Ali MacGraw comes from a wealthy family, her father was the owner of a chain of gas stations, her mother an artist.
In 1957 she was elected to the most beautiful hotel waitress of the season in Atlantic City, where during her college time job there. She studied art history and literature at Wellesley College in 1960 and worked as a photo assistant at the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar, as well as a stylist and interior designer. Finally she was discovered as a fashion model, and in 1968 the film: Already in her first strip, the quickest way to the beyond (A Lovely Way to Die, directed by David Lowell Rich) she played alongside world star Kirk Douglas, but in a very small role, the film was a flop.
With its sleek, long black hair and her little painted, natural-looking face, Ali MacGraw the late 1960s and early 1970s in the U.S. as a new type of unused "College Girls was.
In 1969, she was known for her role in the comedy For Richer or innocence (directed by Larry Peerce) known to a wider audience and won the Golden Globe Award as Most Promising Actress. In the same year she married the film producer Robert Evans, who with the movie Love Story (directed by Arthur Hiller), built in 1970 Star. As a result, she received awards as Worst Actress (Harvard Lampoon's Worst Actress of the Year, 1970 and 1972), but again won) a Golden Globe Award (out of three in her career and was nominated for an Oscar. Because of its popularity in Germany, she received in 1972 and 1973 in the readers' choice three times the Bravo Otto of the youth magazine BRAVO.
After her divorce from Robert Evans in 1972, with whom she has a son Josh Evans, 1973, she married Steve McQueen, her co-stars in Sam Peckinpah's film Getaway (The Getaway) (1972). In 1978, the turbulent marriage was divorced. In the same year she starred alongside Kris Kristofferson, the female lead role in Convoy (directed) Sam Peckinpah. 1979 was followed by a few successful tennis Opus game of love (The Players, directed by Anthony Harvey) with others Maximilian Schell and a year later, the flop Tell me what you want (Just Tell Me What You Want, directed by Sidney Lumet) Altstar with Myrna Loy. Thus Ali MacGraws was finished film career in Hollywood.
In television, however, they remained a presence, and played leading and supporting roles, especially in thrillers, but also in series. 1985 MacGraw was seen for a season in the television series The Dynasty as Lady Ashley Mitchell on. Their hopes for a continued role for the next season was made by Aaron Spelling to naught, she had to die in the success of the series Serientod. In 1993 she played Uncle Jane Merkel in the Gunsmoke - remake of Gunsmoke - He is the law (Gunsmoke: The Long Ride) alongside Matt Dillon James Arness and James Brolin.
In 2001, she reappeared in a movie and had a bizarre appearance on a directing her son, Joshua Evans, Glam, intended as a satire on the Hollywood establishment was savaged by the critics and is considered a particularly good example of trash.
In 1991 she was taken around the world by the magazine People in a list of 50 most beautiful people.
In the 1980s, MacGraw was not only professionally, but also privately crashed: She consumed in excess of alcohol and cocaine, and went through numerous love affairs talked about. After a stay in the famous Betty Ford Center for substance abuse, she began again, and lived as an interior designer in Malibu, where she houses her former colleagues in the film, including the designed by Nick Nolte and Faye Dunaway, new. During that time she lived in a hut on the beach. She wrote her autobiography, Moving Pictures, in which she wrote openly about her addiction and promiscuity.
Later she turned to the esoteric and the yoga and 1994, published successfully, together with the renowned yoga teacher Erich Schiffmann in Santa Monica one video. Today, Ali MacGraw lives mostly retired to New Mexico.
Born Alice MacGraw
April 1, 1938 (age 71)
Pound Ridge, New York
Occupation Actor, author, animal activist
Spouse(s) Robin Hoen (1961-1962)
Robert Evans (1969–1972)
Steve McQueen (1973–1978)
Filmography
1968: The fastest way to the afterlife
1969: Goodbye, Columbus
1970: Love Story
1972: Getaway
1978: Convoy
1979: game of love
1980: Tell me what you want
1983: The Winds of War (TV miniseries)
1983: The drug syndicate (TV detective film)
1985: The Denver-Clan (Dynasty) (TV series, one season)
1992: Sailing Tour of Horror (TV-thriller)
1993: Gunsmoke - He is the law
1994: Ali MacGraw: Yoga (also a producer, video)
2001: Glam
