Ali MacGraw, 85, Steps Out in New York City, 55 Years After “Love Story”

Ali MacGraw is stunning at 85!

The actress was photographed on Wednesday, Feb. 12, looking fantastic in a sleek black suit on the streets of New York City. MacGraw wore her striking gray hair swept back and accessorized with a simple black handbag and elegant kitten heels.

It's hard to believe it's been more than half a century since MacGraw rose to fame as the star of romantic films like Goodbye, Columbus (1969) and Love Story (1970).

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The actress was 30 when she won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for 1969's Goodbye, Columbus. One year later, she took on what is probably her most iconic role as Jenny Cavilleri, a working class college student who falls for wealthy classmate Oliver Barrett IV (Ryan O'Neal) in 1970's Love Story.

The film was a box office smash as well as critically well-received. MacGraw's performance earned her another Golden Globe and a 1971 Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Love Story went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of all time and remains a romance classic. In 2021, Paramount+ announced it was developing a series based on the film.

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Despite having "absolutely nothing in common," as she told PEOPLE around the release of a 50th anniversary edition of the film in 2021, MacGraw and O'Neal "just clicked."

"Suddenly I was a movie star and that's a shocking experience," she added of Love Story's success. "I think the biggest accomplishment of my life has been that I survived [being] flavor of the year."

More hits followed for MacGraw, including 1972's The Getaway, on the set of which she met third husband Steve McQueen, and 1978's Convoy. In 1985, she appeared in a 14-episode arc on Dynasty.

MacGraw and O'Neal remained friends in the decades after Love Story's release, reuniting in 2016 in a touring production of A.R. Gurney's play Love Letters. In 2021, the former costars received side-by-side stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

"Working with Ryan, all those years ago, was one of the great experiences of my film career," she told PEOPLE in a statement following O'Neal's 2023 death. "I know that a huge part of my success was due to his generosity as my costar."

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