Kate O'Toole (actress)
Kate O'Toole | |
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| Born | Kate Eurwen O'Toole 26 February 1960 Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Parent(s) | Peter O'Toole Siân Phillips |
Kate Eurwen O'Toole (/ˈɛərwɛn/ AIR-wen, Welsh: [ˈɛiruːɛn]; born 26 February 1960) is an English actress.
Early life and education
[edit]O'Toole was born on 26 February 1960 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. She is the daughter of actors Peter O'Toole and Siân Phillips.
Career
[edit]O'Toole appeared in a 2006 West End production of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke at the Apollo Theatre, London, and was cast in Channel 4's Forgiven. She appeared in the first and third season of the Showtime series The Tudors as Lady Salisbury.
She was nominated for Best Actress at the Irish Times Theatre Awards for her role as Eleanor in Rough Magic Theatre Company's production of Terry Johnson's Dead Funny. She won Best Actress UK in the Barclays/Arts Council Theatre Awards for her performance as 'B' in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women (Lyric theatre, Belfast).
Filmography
[edit]In 2010 she filmed a remake of Patrice Leconte's classic L'homme du Train with Donald Sutherland and U2's Larry Mullen.
Her other film credits include The Confusion of Tongues (2014), Hideaways (2011), Possession (2002), Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), Get Well Soon (BBC TV series), Eden, Laughter in the Dark, 32A and John Huston's last film, The Dead, his critically acclaimed adaptation of James Joyce's short story. She appeared in RTÉ One's reality cookery programme The Restaurant where she succeeded in winning four out of a possible five stars.
She was executive producer of the short film Good Luck, Mr Gorski.
Minister for Arts, Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan, appointed her to the Irish Film Board in 2013. She is chairwoman of Ireland's highly acclaimed film festival, the Galway Film Fleadh.[1]
Personal life
[edit]She was named after American actress Katharine Hepburn,[2] whom her father admired and would later work with in The Lion in Winter.
In November 2008, O'Toole was convicted of driving while drunk and disqualified from driving for three years. Her blood sample showed that she was three times over the legal drink-drive limit.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Board of Directors". Galway Film Fleadh. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ Peter O'Toole Discusses Katharine Hepburn / 2011, archived from the original on 15 December 2021, retrieved 15 December 2019
- ^ Irish Times, 28 November 2008, report by John Fallon, retrieved 5 November 2020
External links
[edit]- Kate O'Toole at IMDb
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| National | |
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- 1960 births
- Living people
- 20th-century English actresses
- 21st-century English actresses
- Actresses from Warwickshire
- Circle in the Square Theatre School alumni
- English people of Irish descent
- English people of Scottish descent
- English people of Welsh descent
- People educated at North London Collegiate School
- Actors from Stratford-upon-Avon
- David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni