Blonde, blue-eyed silent screen star of romantic melodramas in the 1920's, a former model. She was one of the first actresses to set up her own production company, 'Katherine MacDonald Pictures' (1919-1921). She was a significant box-office earner for First National and B.P. Schulberg, starring opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Thomas Meighan and William S. Hart. After her retirement from acting, she ran a cosmetics business.