Kim Marchant
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| Emmerdale character | |
| Kim Marchant | |
|---|---|
| Played by | Claire King |
| Duration | 1989-1997, 1999 |
| Date of Birth | 19th January 1959 |
| Date of Death | |
| Marital Status | Married |
| Occupation | |
| Family | Steve, James |
Kim Marchant (previously Tate, née Barker) was a fictional character in the popular soap opera Emmerdale. She was informally known as "the rich bitch" by many of the local villagers, and had once had a romantic tie with Chris Tate- another hated character. She had previously, though, been married to Chris's father and when he died Chris blamed her for his death and never forgave her. When she and her new husband Steve Marchant fell on ill times, they planned to gain some money by stealing a horse and selling it, after replacing it with an older horse in the hope that no-one would notice the difference. Whilst driving the horse-box, however, Steve happened to run Kathy Glover over. Kim managed- after narrowly preventing her husband from finishing Kathy off in the hospital- to talk to Kathy while she was alone, concussed and vulnerable. She pursuaded her that Steve had not stopped his vehicle when he had hit her to make her husband seem like the sole villain of the piece- even though she had helped to plan the thievery of the horse. In court, however, with the lawyers questioning Kathy's validity as a witness for Steve's hit-and-run crime, Kathy herself came to question how true Kim's words had been. For this, and numerous other crooked tricks, the police were soon on her trail. She confronted Chris Tate to try to get hold of money as a means of escape, and knocked him out savagely with a paperweight when he would not comply. Then she confessed that she had indeed, as he speculated, killed his father: he had died of a heart attack while she looked on- in precisely the location Chris was now lying in. She left with her son James in a helicopter, never to be seen again- and is consequently one of the soap's few villains never to be punished for her crimes, or properly killed off.
[edit] Family
- Husband: Steve Marchant
- Son: James Tate
