Kate Maberly
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Kate Maberly (born Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly, 14 March 1982) is an English film actress.
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[edit] Background
She was born in Surrey, England and is the daughter of an attorney. She is one of 5 children; her older sister Polly is also an actress. In addition to her acting and music skills, Maberly joined a swimming team at age 5 and won an award for best swimmer in 1992. Maberly graduated from London's Trinity College of Music in 2004, after pursuing a double major in piano and cello performance. She demonstrated her musical abilities playing the piano in the 1995 TV drama Mothertime.
[edit] Career
Her breakthrough role was that of Mary Lennox in the 1993 film The Secret Garden. This internationally acclaimed performance paved the way for several subsequent leading roles, including Ira in the 1995 movie Friendship's Field, Dinah Bellman in the 1995 movie The Langoliers, and Vanessa in the 1997 BBC TV Drama Mothertime.
Since The Secret Garden, Maberly has also gone on to parts alongside such established actors as Ted Danson (in Gulliver's Travels, 1996), Omar Sharif (in the IMAX film Mysteries of Egypt, 1998), and Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet (in Finding Neverland, 2004). She is due to appear in the feature films Like Minds, and Popcorn in 2007.
Maberly also performed voice-overs for Ordynek, Bringing the Pride of Poland to Texas in 2000, and for The Braniff Pages in 2001. She has completed several radio works for BBC Radio 4 as well, including The Dorabella Variation, A Certain Smile, and National Velvet. Maberly's excellent narration of the audio book Catherine Called Birdy, written by Karen Cushman, received an Audie Award in 1995.
Maberly's acting is characterized by outstanding maturity and grave consideration. Her portrayal of Ira in Friendship's Field is widely regarded[citation needed] as one of the finest.
[edit] Selected screen credits
- Popcorn (2007, directed by Darren Paul Fischer) - Annie
- Blood on Benefits 1 (2006, directed by Andrew-Lee Potts) - Rianne
- Like Minds (2006, directed by Gregory Read) - Susan Mueller
- Finding Neverland (2004, directed by Marc Forster) - Wendy Darling
- The Audition (2004 short, directed by Fraser Robinson) - Lucy Carrington
- Daniel Deronda (2002 BBC TV, directed by Tom Hooper) - Kate Meyrick
- Deserter (2002, directed by Martin Huberty) - Jennifer Murray
- As If (2002 TV series, directed by Dewi Humphries) - Co-Co
- A Touch of Frost (TV series) - episode Mistaken Identity (2002, directed by Roger Bamford)) - Melanie Monkton
- Midsomer Murders (TV series) - episode Dark Autumn (2001) - Holly Reid
- Victoria & Albert (2001 BBC TV movie, directed by John Erman) - Princess Alice
- The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000 TV movie, directed by Gillies McKinnon)) - Young Madeleine
- Gooseberries Don't Dance (1999 TV short, directed by Andrew Kazamian)
- Mysteries of Egypt (1998 IMAX, directed by Bruce Neibaur) - Granddaughter
- Mothertime (1997 BBC TV movie, directed by Matthew Jacobs) - Vanessa
- Gobble (1997 BBC TV movie, directed by Jimmy Mulville) - Pippa Worsfold, Colin's daughter
- Teacher (TV, directed by Bruce Neibaur) - Anne Sullivan
- Gulliver's Travels (1996 TV movie, directed by Charles Sturridge) - Glumdalclitch
- Spatz (ITV TV)
- The Langoliers (1995 TV movie, directed by Tom Holland) - Dinah Catherine Bellman
- Friendships Field (1995, directed by Bruce Neibaur) - Ira
- The Secret Garden (1993, directed by Agnieszka Holland) - Mary Lennox
- Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1992 TV movie, directed by Diarmuid Lawrence) - Kay
- Ex (1991 BBC TV movie, directed by Paul Seed) - Christine
[edit] Theatre
- Christopher Hampton's Total Eclipse (directed by Daniel Evans) at the Royal Court Theatre
- William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (directed by Richard Twyman) at Midas Touch - Juliet
[edit] External links
- Kate Maberly at the Internet Movie Database
- Resume at PFD
- Kate Maberly's Flight 29 - fan site
