{"id":3144,"date":"2025-10-05T22:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T22:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2025-10-05T22:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T22:49:31","slug":"from-love-story-to-timeless-star-ali-macgraw-shines-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=3144","title":{"rendered":"From Love Story to Timeless Star: Ali MacGraw Shines at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ali MacGraw\u2019s journey is one of brilliance, resilience, and reinvention. Once a Hollywood superstar, she captivated audiences with her beauty and talent before choosing a quieter, more meaningful life. Now 84, she thrives in a small town near Santa Fe, New Mexico, embracing simplicity, advocacy, and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born Elizabeth Alice MacGraw in 1939, she grew up in modest circumstances with artist parents whose struggles left a lasting impression. After graduating from Wellesley, Ali entered the fashion world, first as an assistant at Harper\u2019s Bazaar and later as a model. Her striking looks led to acting, and she quickly rose to fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her breakthrough came with Goodbye, Columbus (1969), followed by her iconic role in Love Story (1970), which earned her an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe. At the height of her fame, Ali epitomized Hollywood glamour. But her personal life, including marriages to producer Robert Evans and actor Steve McQueen, often overshadowed her career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lifepress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/22-240x300.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifepress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/22-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/lifepress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/22.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"339\"><br>By the late 1970s, she stepped away from acting and later sought help for addiction, finding strength and purpose through recovery. After losing her California home to a wildfire in 1993, she moved to New Mexico, where she devoted herself to yoga, animal rights, and community work.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lifepress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11-200x300.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifepress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/lifepress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11.jpg 683w\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"413\"><br>Though retired, Ali remains an icon of grace and resilience. She shares a close bond with her son, actor-director Josh Evans, and embraces life as a devoted grandmother. Her story is a reminder that reinvention\u2014and true beauty\u2014comes from within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali MacGraw\u2019s journey is one of brilliance, resilience, and reinvention. Once a Hollywood superstar, she captivated audiences with her beauty and talent before choosing a quieter, more&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}