Katharine Isabelle
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| Born | Katherine Murray March 10, 1982 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Other name(s) | Katharine Isobel |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1988–present |
Katharine Isabelle (born 10 March 1982) is a Canadian actress. Best known for her portrayal of Ginger in Ginger Snaps, she has appeared in Canadian and American movies as well as TV series episodes from an early age.
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[edit] Personal life
Isabelle was born Katherine Isobel Murray in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her father, Graeme Murray, is an art director & production designer for film and television who has won two Emmys for his work on The X-Files. Her mother, Gail Murray, is an amateur Vancouver writer/producer. Former child actor and journalist Joshua Murray is her brother.
Isabelle and her Ginger Snaps co-star Emily Perkins were born in the same hospital, went to the same pre-school, elementary and private schools, and are at the same agency.[citation needed]
[edit] Career
Isabelle's career began in 1988, in the movie Cousins (1989), starring Ted Danson and Isabella Rossellini. Though not a box office hit, her most successful work by far is Ginger Snaps (2000) in which she co-starred with Emily Perkins; but tour de force to date, (and the work she is most proud of) was in the 2001 indie movie Turning Paige, alongside Nicholas Campbell. The film, despite critical acclaim, went without commercial release.
2002 included supporting roles in the remake of Carrie (TVM) as Tina Blake, and a minor role in Insomnia. In 2003, further supporting roles in the minor indy On The Corner (no commercial release), and in the form of Gibb in Freddy vs. Jason, which Isabelle disliked, making her disappointment with the movie known before its release.[1] At the end of the year there was a major role in Falling Angels (no commercial release). 2004 brought the supporting role of Amber in the earnest The Life (TVM), followed by a lead role in The Last Casino (TVM), and in the (limited release) indy thriller Show Me. Making a belated addition to the original in 2004 were the Ginger Snaps sequels: Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (in which Isabelle took a minor role) and Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning, made back-to-back on a limited budget. Isabelle had to be cajoled into participating in them.[citation needed] Her reticence would prove well founded as GS2 bombed at the box office, and GS Back went straight to video.
Her reticence didn't extend to refusing Al Pacino's (Insomnia) advice regarding stage work. Isabelle would make her theatre debut in Toronto in September 2004 with Marcello Cabezas and Jason Lewis in a critically poorly received adaptation of Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth.
2006 included Eight Days To Live (TVM) and Engaged To Kill (TVM), relatively minor works, neither of which would be well received by critics; 2007 following in much the same vein with two small guest appearances in Supernatural, and supporting roles in two (unreleased) TV movies.
[edit] Filmography
Year shown beside title refers to year of production, not year shown.
[edit] Films
| Year | Title | Role | Place in final credits |
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| 2005 | Everything's Gone Green | Heather | 9th |
| 2004 | Earthsea | Yarrow | 19th |
| 2003 | Show Me | Jenna | 5th |
| Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning | Ginger Fitzgerald | Lead | |
| Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed | Ginger Fitzgerald | 6th | |
| 2002 | On The Corner | Stacey Lee | 5th |
| Falling Angels | Lou Field | 3rd | |
| Freddy vs. Jason | Gibb | 8th | |
| 2001 | Insomnia | Tanya Francke | 19th |
| 2000 | Turning Paige | Paige Fleming | 2nd |
| Bones | Tia Peet | 10th | |
| Josie and the Pussycats | Laughing Girl | 17th | |
| A Shot In The Face | Erin | 2nd | |
| 1999 | Ginger Snaps | Ginger Fitzgerald | 2nd |
| Snow Day | Marla | 22nd | |
| 1998 | Spooky House | Mona | 9th |
| 1997 | Disturbing Behavior | Lindsay Clark | 9th |
| 1995 | Salt Water Moose | Josephine 'Jo' Parnell | 2nd (as Katharine Isobel) |
| 1992 | Knight Moves | Erica Sanderson | 12th (as Katherine Isobel) |
| 1989 | The Last Winter | Winnie Jamieson | 6th (as Kate Murray) |
| 1988 | Immediate Family | Birthday Girl Carrie | 23rd (as Katie Murray) |
| Cold Front | Katie McKenzie | 8th (as Katie Murray) | |
| Cousins | Chloe Hardy | 10th (as Katie Murray) |
[edit] TV movies
| Year | Title | Role | Place in Final Credits |
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| 2006 | Ogre | Jessica | 4th |
| 2005 | Engaged To Kill | Maddy Lord | 4th |
| Eight Days To Live | Lucinda | 9th | |
| 2004 | Rapid Fire | Amber | 7th |
| Legend of Earthsea | Yarrow | 19th | |
| 2003 | The Life | Amber Reilly | 9th |
| The Last Casino | Elyse | 2nd | |
| 2002 | Carrie | Tina Blake | 10th |
| The Secret Life of Zoey | Kayla | 6th | |
| 2001 | Due East | Reba | 11th |
| 1997 | Voyage of Terror | Aly Tauber | 6th |
| Married to a Stranger AKA Marriage is Forever | Lacey Potter | 6th | |
| 1996 | The Prisoner of Zenda, Inc. AKA Double Play | Fiona | 6th - (as Katherine Isobel) |
| The Titanic | Ophelia Jack | 42nd - (as Katharine Isobel) | |
| 1994 | Children of the Dust | Young Rachel | 16th - (as Katherine Isobel) |
| 1991 | Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus | Virginia O'Hanlon | 7th - (as Katherine Isobel) |
| 1990 | Burning Bridges | Emily | 13th - (as Katie Murray) |
| Last Train Home AKA Tom Alone | Sarah Bradshaw | - (as Katie Murray) |
[edit] Television
| Year | Title | Role | Episode/s | Place in Final Credits |
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| 2008 | Psych | Sigrid | "Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion" - (season 2, episode 16) | |
| 2007 | Supernatural | Ava Wilson | "All Hell Breaks Loose" (Part 1) - (season 2, episode 21) | 7th Guest (9th overall) |
| 2006 | Supernatural | Ava Wilson | "Hunted" - (season 2, episode 10) | 3rd Guest (6th overall) |
| 2005 | Stargate SG-1 | Valencia | "Camelot" - (season 9, episode 20) | 3rd Guest (8th overall) |
| Young Blades | Celeste LaRue | "To Heir is Human" - (season 1, episode 11) | Guest Lead | |
| 2003 | The Eleventh Hour | Petrel | "Stormy Petrel" | 2nd Guest |
| Smallville | Sara Conroy | "Slumber" | Guest Lead | |
| 2002 | John Doe | Shayne Pickford | "Blood Lines" - (season 1, episode 2) | Guest Lead |
| 2001 | Mentors | Ann Sullivan | "Breakthrough" | Guest Lead |
| The Outer Limits | Tammy Sinclair | "Dark Child" | ||
| Night Visions | Vicki | "Rest Stop" | ||
| The Chris Isaak Show | Melissa | "Smackdown" | 3rd Guest | |
| 2000 | The Immortal | Taurez | "Wired" | |
| The Fearing Mind | Josie Hogan | "Good Harvest" - (season 1, episode 2) | 10th | |
| 1999 | First Wave | Denise | "The Channel" | |
| Da Vinci's Inquest | Madeline Marquetti | "A Cinderella Story" (Parts 1 and 2) | ||
| 1998 | Da Vinci's Inquest | Audrey | "Little Sister" (Parts 2 and 3) - (series 1, Episodes 2 & 3) | 19th & 18th |
| First Wave | Elizabeth | "Book of Shadows" | ||
| The Net | Malika | "In Dreams" - (series 1, episode 18) | Guest Lead - (as Katherine Isobel) | |
| 1997 | The X-Files | Lisa Baiocchi | "Schizogeny" - (series 5, episode 4) | 3rd Guest |
| Madison | Allysia Long | "Fallout" - (series 5, episode 5), "A Suit, a Secret & Sergio" - (series 5, episode 7).
"Skin Deep" - (series 5, episode 8), "The Party's Over" - (series 5, episode 11). |
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| 1995 | Goosebumps | Katrina 'Kat' Merton | "It Came From Beneath The Sink" - (season 1, episode 14) | 3rd - (as Katherine Isobel) |
| 1994 | Lonesome Dove: The Series | Francis Maitland | "Rebellion" - (season 1, episode 18) | 8th - (as Katherine Isobel) |
| 1991 | The Ray Bradbury Theater | Meg | "Zero Hour" - (season 6, episode 2) | 2nd - (as Katharine Isobel Murray) |
| 1990 | Neon Rider | Maxine 'Max' Forrest | "Running Man" - (series 1, episode 24) | 17th - (as Katie Murray) |
| MacGyver | Violet | "The Madonna" - (series 5, episode 11) | 8th - (as Katie Murray) |
