Katharine Houghton (born
Katharine Houghton Grant; March 10, 1945) is an American
actress and
playwright. She is best known for playing Joanna "Joey" Drayton, a white American woman who brings home her black American fiancé to meet her parents, in the
1967 film
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Katharine Hepburn, who played the mother of Houghton's character in the film, was in real life Houghton's aunt.