Who is Katharine Houghton and in what famous movie has she appeared?”
Katharine Houghton (born 10 March 1945) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Joanna “Joey” Drayton, the European-American ingenue, who brings home an African-American fiancĂ© to meet her parents, in the 1967 film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Houghton has had an extensive career onstage and in films. In 2004, she portrayed Mrs. Spaulding, one of the trustees of Indiana University, in the feature film Kinsey. Houghton is rumored to be playing the role of Gran-Gran in The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan’s film adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon series, Avatar: The Last Airbender.