Hilda Plowright (November 29, 1890 - October 9, 1973) was an actress born in Swaffham, Norfolk.
 Following a career on the stage in Britain she came to the United States and obtained work and a Social Security number in New York.
 She died in San Diego, California following a career in film, theater and television, primarily playing older women in assorted small roles.
 She had over 50 film and television appearances between 1938 and 1965.
 She also appeared in at least 13 theater productions on Broadway between 1925 and 1940.
María de Navas Bocos (18 March 1678 – 5 March 1721), was a Spanish stage actress born in Milan, known as La Milanesa.
Alexandra Susanna Rapaport (born 26 December 1971) is a Swedish film and stage actress born in Bromma.
 She studied at the Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm, from which she graduated in 1997.
Eliza Newton (1837–7 February 1882) was a Scottish stage actress born in Dumfries, Scotland.
 She was personally attractive, intelligent, and vivacious.
Marjorie Kane (April 28, 1909 – January 8, 1992) was an American film and stage actress born in Chicago, Illinois.
 She appeared in 68 films between 1929 and 1951, occasionally under the name Babe Kane.
Katharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940) is an American film and stage actress.
 She starred in three of the most popular films of the 1960s and 1970s: as Elaine Robinson in "The Graduate" (1967), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress; as Etta Place in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress; and "The Stepford Wives" (1975).
 She won a Golden Globe for "Voyage of the Damned" (1976).
Adelina Abranches (August 15, 1866 – November 21, 1945) was a Portuguese stage actress born in Lisbon.
 She was considered a child prodigy, performing roles on state at the age of four.
 She is notable for her acting career in Rio de Janeiro.
Alice Fischer (January 16, 1869 – June/or July 23, 1947) was an American stage actress born in Indiana.
 Her one film appearance was the now lost 1917 "National Red Cross Pageant".
 She was a great beauty as a young woman at the turn of the 20th Century.
Alice Harrison (1852 – May 3, 1896) was an English stage actress born in London.
The Legacy is a 1978 British-American horror film directed by Richard Marquand and starring Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, and The Who's Roger Daltrey.

Question: The Legacy stars which American film and stage actress born on January 29, 1940?
Answer: Katharine Ross