Chiselled beauty Katharine Hepburn, lover of Spencer Tracy and a feminist icon with views ahead of her time, has died aged 96.

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(From Irish Independent)

KATHARINE Hepburn, an icon of feminist strength and spirit who brought a chiseled beauty and patrician bearing to such films as 'The Philadelphia Story' and 'TheAfrican Queen', died last night.

She was 96 and had been in declining health in recent years.

During her 60-year career, she won a record four Academy Awards and was nominated 12 times, which stood as a record until Meryl Streep surpassed her nomination total in2003.

Her Oscars were for 'Morning Glory' (1933), 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner', 1967, 'A Lion in Winter' (1968) and 'On Golden Pond' (1981).

Despite her success, Hepburn always felt she could have done more.

"I could have accomplished three times what I've accomplished," she once said. "I haven't realised my full potential. It's disgusting."

But, she said, "Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy -and then death. Acting's just waiting for the custard pie. That's all."

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