Inger McCabe Elliott (February 23, 1933 – January 29, 2024) was a Norwegian-born American businesswoman, photographer, artist, and socialite.
[1] A fictionalized version of her life involving the 1983 encounter she had with con artist David Hampton was chronicled in the film Six Degrees of Separation, in which she was portrayed by Stockard Channing, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.
Her father was a prominent psychoanalyst who became blacklisted during World War II and the family was forced to leave the country.
She next became a photographer for Rapho Guillumette, traveling around the world and living in Hong Kong during the 1960s, when her pictures appeared in magazines like Vogue.
[9] Elliott was a member of the New York City Council on Foreign Relations,[10] and a trustee for the American Scandinavian Foundation.
In October 1983, Hampton came to the Elliott's New York apartment saying he was the son of Sidney Poitier and a friend of her daughter Marit, and needed a place to stay.
In both the play and film, actress Stockard Channing portrayed a fictionalized version of Elliott named "Ouisa Kittredge".