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Born in Pound Ridge, NY. The daughter of artists, she majored in art history at Wellesley College. After graduation, in 1960, she joined Harper's Bazaar as an editorial assistant, later becoming a fashion photographer's helper. She gradually moved in front of the camera and by 1967 was a top fashion model, her fresh-scrubbed all-American face decorating the covers of leading women's magazines. She made her film debut in 1968, playing a bit role in A LOVELY WAY TO DIE, and was catapulted to stardom the following year in the role of Brenda Patimkin, the screen incarnation of the "Jewish-American Princess," in GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. She became established as a leading new personality of the American screen with her next role, as the dying heroine of LOVE STORY (1970), but has made only rare screen appearances since. In the 1980s, she appeared for a time in the immensely popular TV series "Dynasty."
In her autobiography, Moving Pictures (1991), Miss MacGraw spoke candidly of her career-stifling problems of alcoholism and an addiction to men. Her second husband (1969-72) was Paramount's then-production chief Bob Evans and her third (1973-78) actor Steve McQueen. Her son by the former is screen actor Josh Evans.
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