Kate Fahy
Encyclopedia
Katherine "Kate" Fahy is an English
stage
and film
actress from Birmingham
. She studied drama at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
, and then joined its "Young Vic Theatre Company". Later on she joined the Everyman Theatre Liverpool Company
, where she met actor Jonathan Pryce
. She made her theatre directorial debut on January 2010 with Wet Weather Cover, a play written by Oliver Cotton
.
She and Pryce have three children: Patrick (born 1983), Gabriel (born 1986) and Phoebe (born 1990).
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
stage
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
actress from Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
. She studied drama at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, opened by Laurence Olivier in 1946, is an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, an organisation securing the highest standards of training in the performing arts, and is an associate school of the Faculty of Creative Arts of the University of the...
, and then joined its "Young Vic Theatre Company". Later on she joined the Everyman Theatre Liverpool Company
Everyman Theatre
The Everyman Theatre stands at the north end of Hope Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Established in 1964 in a former cinema, it encouraged local talent and played a part in the development of new artistes and writers. The theatre was rebuilt between 1975 and 1977, and was closed again for...
, where she met actor Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce, CBE is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his longtime partner English actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s...
. She made her theatre directorial debut on January 2010 with Wet Weather Cover, a play written by Oliver Cotton
Oliver Cotton
Oliver Cotton is an English actor, known for his work on stage, TV and film.After training at the Drama Centre London, he has worked extensively at the Royal National Theatre playing in many productions including The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Much Ado About...
.
She and Pryce have three children: Patrick (born 1983), Gabriel (born 1986) and Phoebe (born 1990).
Filmography
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1975 | The Nearly Man The Nearly Man The Nearly Man was a UK TV series from the mid-1970s created by Arthur Hopcraft about a middle-class Labour MP. Originally screened on ITV on 4 August 1974, the series won the Broadcasting Press Guild award for the best single play on British television in 1974. The series was filmed in London by... |
Millie Dutton | TV series (3 episodes) |
1980 | Life for Christine | Rose | TV movie |
1981 | Bognor | Coriander Cordingley | TV series (6 episodes) |
ITV Playhouse ITV Playhouse ITV Playhouse was a UK comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a... |
Angela Birley | TV series (1 episode: "Sin with Our Permission") | |
Roger Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Rose | TV series (6 episodes) | |
1984 | Bergerac Bergerac (TV series) Bergerac was a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and screened on BBC1, it starred John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in "Le Bureau des Étrangers" Bergerac was a British television show... |
Fleur Ewell | TV series (1 episode: "House Guests") |
Oxbridge Blues Oxbridge Blues Oxbridge Blues is a British television mini-series, produced by the BBC and first shown in 1984. It is an anthology of seven 75-minute teleplays, most of which focus on relationships of one kind or another... |
Eileen/Lizzie | TV series (2 episodes) | |
1985 | Storyboard | Deidre Aitken | TV series (1 episode: "King & Castle") |
1986 | Screenplay | The Mozart Inquest | TV series |
1991 | The House of Elliot The House of Eliott The House of Eliott is a British television series produced and broadcast by the BBC in three series between 1991 and 1994. The series starred Stella Gonet and Louise Lombard as two sisters in 1920s London who establish a dressmaking business and eventually their own haute couture fashion house... |
Alice Burgoyne | TV series (11 episodes: 1991-1993) |
1996 | Frontiers | Diane Lightfoot | TV series |
1997 | Trial & Retribution | Meg Richards | TV series (2 episodes) |
1999 | Pure Wickedness | Detective Inspector Mary Carson | TV series |
2000 | A Likeness in Stone | Mrs. Warner | TV movie |
2001 | The Fourth Angel The Fourth Angel The Fourth Angel is a 2001 British thriller directed by John Irvin and written by Allan Scott, from a novel by Robin Hunter. It stars Jeremy Irons as a man who seeks justice after a terrorist attack on the plane in which his family is travelling... |
Gail (Jack's Secretary) | |
2002 | The Jury The Jury (TV serial) The Jury is a British television serial broadcast in 2002 . The series was the first ever to be allowed to film inside the historic Old Bailey courthouse.-Series One:... |
Dr. Emma McGlade | TV series |
2005 | Cherished Cherished (film) Cherished is a 2005 British film based on the wrongful conviction of Angela Cannings for the deaths of her three children. It was a joint production by BBC's drama and current affairs wings.-Synopsis:... |
Mrs. Justice Hallett | TV movie |
2006 | The Living and the Dead | Nancy Brocklebank | |
The Best Man | Dr. Cowley | TV movie | |
2008 | Defiance Defiance (2008 film) Defiance is a 2008 World War II era film written, produced, and directed by Edward Zwick, set during the occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany. The film is an account of the Bielski partisans, a group led by three Jewish brothers who saved and recruited Jews in Poland during the Second World War... |
Riva Reich | |
2010 | Silent Witness Silent Witness Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was... |
Margaret Hudson | TV series (1 episode: "Intent: Part II") |
Archipelago Archipelago (film) Archipelago is a 2010 British film written and directed by Joanna Hogg about a family holiday on Tresco, Isles of Scilly.-Plot:A darkly comic and quietly moving portrayal of a family in emotional crisis... |
Patricia |