Katharine Cornell (February 16 1893-June 9 1974) was a stage actress, writer, and theater owner and producer.

She was born on February 16, 1893 (although most sources cite the incorrect year of 1898) in Berlin, Germany to American parents, and raised in Buffalo, New York.

At the age of 58, she recreated the role of Elizabeth Barrett in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" on live television in 1956, twenty-five years after she first played it in the original 1931 Broadway production.

Born in Germany to U.S. parents, but raised in New York State.

She appeared in only one Hollywood film (playing herself), but she is considered one of the great American stage actresses of the twentieth century.

Won Broadway's 1948 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for a revival of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" - an award shared with Judith Anderson (I) for "Medea" and Jessica Tandy for "A Streetcar Named Desire".