Kate Maberly
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| Kate Maberly | |
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| Born | Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly March 14, 1982  Surrey, England |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Kate Maberly | |
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| Birth name | Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly |
| Born | March 14, 1982 |
| Genre(s) | Rock, Folk, Pop, Acoustic, Alternative |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar, Cello, Piano, Vocals |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Website | http://www.katemaberly.co.uk/ |
Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly (born 14 March 1982) is an English actress and musician, playing piano and cello, singing, and writing music. She has had a variety of starring and minor roles in film, television, and radio dramas.
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[edit] Early life
Maberly was born in Surrey, England. She is the daughter of an attorney and one of five children; her older sister Polly is an actress as well. She has two older brothers Thomas and Guy, and one younger brother Jack.
Maberly joined a swim team when she was 5 years old, and was a county champion swimmer up to the age of 16. She has also represented her county in tennis since the age of 12, and since 2000 has won various tennis club leagues in London[citation needed].
Maberly skipped a year of school, and graduated from London's Trinity College of Music in 2004 with a joint honours degree in piano and cello performance.
[edit] Career
Her breakthrough role came in 1993 when, at the age of ten, she had the starring role of Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden. This internationally acclaimed performance paved the way for several subsequent leading roles, including Ira in the 1995 movie Friendship's Field, the blind girl 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 roles in the 1996 miniseries Gulliver's Travels starring Ted Danson, costarring as the granddaughter of Omar Sharif's character in the 1998 IMAX film Mysteries of Egypt, and as the actress who plays Wendy Darling in the 2004 film Finding Neverland. In early 2007, she appeared in two feature films, the Australian/UK thriller Like Minds, and the British teen comedy Popcorn. Kate recently filmed Boogeyman 3, set for a summer 2009 release on DVD.
Maberly 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, including The Dorabella Variation, A Certain Smile, and National Velvet. Maberly's narration of the audio book Catherine Called Birdy, written by Karen Cushman, received an Audie Award in 1995. More recently, Maberly teamed up with a London area music producer to record several of her own songs for a new EP.
She demonstrated her musical abilities playing the piano in the 1995 BBC drama Mothertime, and playing the cello in the 2004 short film "The Audition". She is 5 feet 5 inches tall, and she is left-handed.[1]
[edit] Movies
| Title (Year) | Role | |
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| Ex (BBC TV Movie) (1991) | Christine | |
| Anglo Saxon Attitudes (BBC TV Movie) (1992) | Kay | |
| The Secret Garden (1993) | Mary Lennox | |
| Friendships Field (1995) | Ira | |
| The Langoliers (1995) | Dinah Catherine Bellman | |
| Gulliver's Travels (1996) | Glumdalclitch | |
| Gobble (BBC TV Movie) (1997) | Pippa Worsfold, Colin's daughter | |
| Mothertime (1997) | Vanessa | |
| Mysteries of Egypt (1998) | Granddaughter | |
| Gooseberries Don’t Dance (1999) | Guest | |
| The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000) | Young Madeleine | |
| Victoria and Albert (BBC TV Movie) (2001) | Princess Alice | |
| Deserter (2002) | Jennifer Murray | |
| Audition (short film) (2004) | Lucy Carrington | |
| Finding Neverland (2004) | Wendy Darling | |
| Like Minds aka Murderous Intent (2006) | Susan Mueller | |
| Blood on Benefits (short film) (2006) | Rianne | |
| Popcorn (2007) | Annie | |
| Boogeyman 3 (2009) | Jennifer |
[edit] Theatre
- A reading of Christopher Hampton's Total Eclipse (directed by Daniel Evans) at the Royal Court Theatre
- Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (directed by Richard Twyman) with Midas Touch Theate Company
[edit] Television
- Holly Reig in Midsomer Murders (guest appearance) in episode 4.5 "Dark Autumn" September 16, 2001
- Spatz (guest appearance)
- Anglo Saxon Attitudes
- Melanie Monkton in Touch of Frost (guest appearance) in episodes 9.1 & 9.2 "Mistaken Identity" January 27 & 28th, 2002
- Co-Co in As If (guest appearance)
- Kate Meyrick in Daniel Deronda
[edit] Radio
- The Shoemaker's Daughter
- The Dora Bella Variation
- Little Women
- Walls Of Silence
- National Velvet
- A Certain Smile
- My Wounded Heart
[edit] Other works
- Catherine Called Birdie (audiobook narrator)
- Braniff Airway's Promotion for "The Braniff Pages" - braniffpages.com (commercial voiceover)
- A voiceover for The Origins of the Arabian, a documentary on horses.
- Ordynek, Bringing The Pride of Poland to Texas (commercial voiceover, 2000)
- Produced and co-directed a music video for Blooq a.k.a Triggerbox.
- Recorded several of her own songs for an EP available in summer of '08.
[edit] Publications
- Article Factory Magazine (USA) April 2007, Iss. Spring, pg. 54-62, "British Young Guns"
- Pictorial Factory Magazine (USA) April 2007, Iss. Spring, pg. 54-64, "British Young Guns"
[edit] Awards
Maberly has won two professional awards:
- Audie Award for Catherine Called Birdie
- Special Award from the The London Film Critics Circle for The Secret Garden.
