Kate Kendall
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Kate Kendall is one of Australia's most well-known actresses. Kate would be best known for her role in the long running Nine Network Australian Drama Stingers. She appeared in every one of the 192 episodes, and was one of the most loved cast members. Kate does not only appear on TV, she is well known for some of her work in plays such as Much Ado and Cheech. A long list of credits is what has caused this excellent Aussie Actress to be well loved and well known over Australia, and over the world.
Kate Kendall was born on 27 July 1973. Kate decided to make acting her profession in her mid teens. She studied at the Adelaide Centre for Performing Arts and went on to play Rebecca in Solstice for the State Theatre Company of South Australia as well as Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Cinderella in Into The Woods in Melbourne's Botanic Gardens. She is a graduate of the Adelaide Centre of Performing Arts and has work mostly in theatre in Melbourne and Adelaide.
Small parts in Television shows such as Home and Away and Neighbours led to a commended guest role as Rosie Burgess in Blue Heelers in 1998. She has also appeared in the movie Dead End and audiences will recognise her as the "stroke girl" in the Australian Unity commercials.
Kate described the part of Angie Piper in Stingers as her 'big break' and has a lot of praise for the character. She received the part of Angie Piper in Stingers after the producers saw her when she auditioned for Halifax f.p.
Kate is a talented horse rider with a special fondness for the Victorian High Country.
Another of Kate's passions is country and western music. She is a great singer and often performs at Christmas time functions like Carols in the Bay. She can be seen almost every year at the Carols in the Bay function in Mordialloc, Victoria, Australia.
She also loves going to the cricket and is an ardent supporter of the Carlton Football Club. She also enjoys reading crime novels and is a supporter of Greenpeace.
Kate completed the feature film King of the Mountain which was released in the second half of 2000.
Kate's husband Wayne 'Johnno' Johnston is a former AFL player for Carlton football club. They got married on the 28th of November 2004. This is also Wayne's Birthday!
Kate's most recent appearance is in the stage play, Cheech. Kendall says that Cheech is strong meat and essentially dramatic. "Some of it is hilarious but it's basically drama with laughs rather than comedy." Kendall is delighted to be back in the theatre and to feel herself stretched by the challenge of doing a piece that's full of changing colours and intensities. It's a shift from Stingers because a conventional television series, whatever its virtues (and Stingers wasn't a bad show), can't allow for the emotion of serious drama. "My character," she says, "has to plumb some pretty full-on emotional depths. My character in Stingers could never go where the character in this has to go."
