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 Alice "Ali" MacGraw (born April 1, 1938)[1] is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actress.

An alumna of Rosemary Hall and Wellesley College, she began working in 1960 as a photographic assistant at Harper's Bazaar, as an assistant to the legendary fashion maven, Diana Vreeland, at Vogue, as a fashion model, and as a photographer's stylist. She has also worked as an interior decorator. MacGraw also appeared in several television commercials including the one for the Polaroid Swinger camera.

She gained notice in Goodbye, Columbus, but real stardom came in 1970 with Love Story. MacGraw was nominated for the 1970 Academy Award for Best Actress for Love Story. She lost to Glenda Jackson, who won that year for Women in Love. MacGraw's keen eye and sense of style were celebrated on the cover of Time. Her minimalist style basically consisted of healthy skin without much makeup, long gleaming hair pulled back simply, and the ever-present brimless woolen hat that became known as the "Ali Cap." In 1971, she was on Richard Blackwell's worst-dressed list.

In 1972, she had her footprints and autograph engraved at Grauman's Chinese Theatre after only four films. One of her most notable films was the action adventure The Getaway, which starred future husband Steve McQueen. She also starred in Convoy, Players, Just Tell Me What You Want, and the television miniseries China Rose and The Winds of War. In 1985, MacGraw appeared in a brief-but-well received 14-episode stint on the hit ABC prime-time soap opera Dynasty as "Lady Ashley Mitchell."

MacGraw wrote a well-received autobiography, Moving Pictures (which she now states was "not well written"), which described her struggles with alcohol and male dependence. She was treated for the former at the Betty Ford Center. In 1991, People magazine chose her as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.

Since 1994, she has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after "fleeing Malibu". Having become a Hatha Yoga devotee in her fifties, she made a tremendously successful Yoga video with the American Yoga Master Erich Schiffmann, Ali MacGraw Yoga Mind and Body, which was a bestseller upon release and was still popular more than a decade later. The video's impact was such that in June 2007 Vanity Fair magazine credited her for being one of the people responsible for the practice's recent popularity in the United States. In keeping with her interests, she narrated a well-received documentary on Yoga, The Fire of Yoga in 2003.

She made her Broadway theatre debut in New York City in 2006 as a dysfunctional matriarch in the drama Festen (The Celebration). She was also included in a Seventeen magazine issue for inspiring hairstyles.

In 2008, GQ magazine named the sexiest 25 women in film ever and included MacGraw for her 1972 role with Steve McQueen in The Getaway.