Editing Ali MacGraw (section)

==Career==

===Early career===
Beginning in 1960, MacGraw spent six years working at ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'' magazine as a photographic assistant to fashion maven [[Diana Vreeland]].<ref name=Weller/> She worked at ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' magazine as a fashion model and as a photographer's stylist. She has also worked as an interior designer.<ref>[https://www.interiormonologue.com/design/blog-post-title-one-hya5f-7bf67-sfg5a-p7pdh-efnsd-pbzp9-cj6rr-cnajc-s7j3f-3rh37-m4pyt-mgj36-pekdd-gbynr-y89jc-4wgcf "ALI MACGRAW + IBU MOVEMENT"]. ''Interior Monologue''. May 15, 2024.</ref>

===Film and television===
[[File:Ali MacGraw-Richard Benjamin in Goodbye, Columbus trailer.jpg|thumb|With [[Richard Benjamin]] in ''Goodbye, Columbus'' (1969)]]
MacGraw began her acting career in television commercials, including one for the [[Polaroid Swinger]] camera.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Meet the Swinger|last=Lippert|first=Barbara|magazine=[[Advertising Age]]|date=June 25, 2018|page=32}}</ref> In one commercial for [[International Paper]], she was on a beach in a bikini made of [[Confil]] and went for a swim underwater to prove its strength and durability. MacGraw gained widespread attention with ''[[Goodbye, Columbus (film)|Goodbye, Columbus]]'' (1969), her first leading role, but real stardom came when she starred opposite [[Ryan O'Neal]] in ''[[Love Story (1970 film)|Love Story]]'' (1970), one of the highest-grossing films in U.S. history.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm|title=Domestic Grosses|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628045843/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm|archive-date=June 28, 2012|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=June 25, 2012}}</ref> The film, and MacGraw's performance in particular, received widespread critical acclaim, and earned her the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama]], in addition to a nomination for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]]. Following ''Love Story'', MacGraw was celebrated on the cover of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''.

[[File:Ali MacGraw placing her hand prints in cement at Chinese Theater.jpg|thumb|upright|Ali MacGraw placing her hand prints in cement at [[Grauman's Chinese Theatre]] in 1972]]
In 1972, after appearing in just three films, she had her footprints and autograph engraved at [[Grauman's Chinese Theatre]]. She then starred opposite [[Steve McQueen]] in ''[[The Getaway (1972 film)|The Getaway]]'' (1972), which was one of the year's top ten films at the box office. Having taken a five-year break from acting, in 1978 MacGraw re-emerged in another box office hit, ''[[Convoy (1978 film)|Convoy]]'' (1978), opposite [[Kris Kristofferson]]. She then appeared in the films ''[[Players (1979 film)|Players]]'' (1979) and ''[[Just Tell Me What You Want]]'' (1980), directed by [[Sidney Lumet]].

In 1983, MacGraw starred in the highly successful television miniseries ''[[The Winds of War (miniseries)|The Winds of War]]''. In 1985, MacGraw joined hit [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] prime-time soap opera ''[[Dynasty (1981 TV series)|Dynasty]]'' as Lady [[Ashley Mitchell (Dynasty character)|Ashley Mitchell]], which, she admitted in a 2011 interview, she did for the money.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/01/15/ali-macgraw-reflects-on-her-career-in-front-of-the-camera/ |url-access=subscription |title=Ali MacGraw Reflects on Her Career in Front of the Camera |first=Todd |last=Gilchrist |date=January 15, 2011 |work=Speakeasy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110118014124/http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/01/15/ali-macgraw-reflects-on-her-career-in-front-of-the-camera |archive-date=January 18, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> She appeared in 14 episodes of the show before her character was killed off in the "[[Dynasty (1981 TV series)#"Moldavian Massacre"|Moldavian Massacre]]" cliffhanger episode in 1985.

[[File:Alimacgraw.jpg|thumb|Ali MacGraw in ''[[The Getaway (1972 film)|The Getaway]]'', 1972]]
She also hosted segments for the Encore Love Stories premium cable network in the late 1990s and 2000s.

In February 2021, MacGraw and O'Neal were honored with stars on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]], 50 years after the release of ''Love Story''.<ref>{{cite news |title='Love Story' stars Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal honored on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-film-love-story-walk-of-fame/love-story-stars-ali-macgraw-ryan-oneal-honored-on-hollywoods-walk-of-fame-idUSKBN2AD01F |access-date=February 14, 2021 |work=Reuters |date=February 13, 2021}}</ref>

===Stage===
MacGraw made her Broadway theater debut in New York City in 2006 as a dysfunctional [[matriarch]] in the drama ''[[Festen (play)|Festen]]'' (''The Celebration'').

In 2016, MacGraw reunited with Ryan O'Neal in a staging of [[A.R. Gurney]]'s play ''[[Love Letters (play)|Love Letters]]'', which toured the US and UK through 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2016/01/28/for-macgraw-and-neal-been-years-between-love-stories/Wvee6C387zAcF2IKgIRQDJ/story.html|title=For Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, 45 years between love stories |work=The Boston Globe}}</ref>

===Magazine recognition===
In 1991, ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine selected MacGraw as one of its "50 Most Beautiful People" in the World.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20122069,00.html |title=Beautiful Through the Years |date=May 12, 1997 |volume=47 |number=18 |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602084013/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20122069,00.html |archive-date=June 2, 2009}}</ref>

In 2008, ''[[GQ]]'' magazine listed her in their "Sexiest 25 Women in Film Ever" edition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://boxwish.com/blog/view/375-gq-magazine-names-the-sexiest-25-women-in-film-ever|title=GQ magazine names the sexiest 25 women in film ever|publisher=Boxwish|access-date=June 9, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090406063939/http://boxwish.com/blog/view/375-gq-magazine-names-the-sexiest-25-women-in-film-ever|archive-date=April 6, 2009}}</ref>

===Yoga===
Having become a [[Hatha Yoga]] devotee in her early 50s, MacGraw produced a [[yoga as exercise|yoga]] video with the American Yoga Master [[Erich Schiffmann]], ''Ali MacGraw Yoga Mind and Body''. The impact of this bestselling video was such that in June 2007, ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' magazine credited MacGraw with being one of the people responsible for the practice's recent popularity in the United States.