Kate Dickie

Kate Dickie
Kate Dickie (2012)
Born	1971 (age 42–43) East Kilbride, Scotland
Occupation	actress
Years active	1994 – present

Kate Dickie (born 1971) is a Scottish actress who has appeared in television series, stage plays and films. She is best known for her portrayal as the security camera operative Jackie in her starring debut Red Road, directed by Andrea Arnold, and for which she was given several awards as best actress, among other things at the BAFTA Scotland Awards and the British Independent Film Awards in 2006. Dickie also supports the theatre company Solar Bear, which is known for its collaborations with deaf people, in part in her role as the patron.^[1]

Early life

Dickie was born in East Kilbride, Scotland but spent part of her childhood in different parts of Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway, Perthshire and Ayrshire) owing to frequent moves by her family. From an early age she discovered her passion for acting, which her parents also supported. Coming from a working class family (her father was a farmer and gardener) in which no family member had been in the arts before, she was embarrassed to call herself an actress since she was afraid to be called pretentious.^[2] Her desire for drama classes supported her to overcome her insecurities that appeared through the frequent school changes and helped her dealing with adjusting to new people and surroundings. After leaving school she went to college in Kirkcaldy to study for a national certificate in drama. In 1990, she won a place at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and decided to stay in Glasgow.^[2] Dickie started to work in theatre and had the opportunity to perform with some of Scotland's best companies. She finally achieved her breakthrough in 2000 when she played a key role in an episode of the BBC Scotland / Raindog series Tinsel Town.^[2]

Acting career

Through Dickie's performance in her film debut Red Road (in which she plays a security camera operative who gets involved with peoples' everyday lives through her camera perspective and who begins to stalk a man for reasons relating to her past) with her former drama school mate and co-star Tony Curran, she gained more recognition as a serious actress.^[3][4][5][6]

In the stage play Aalst, based on the true story of a couple who had killed their children and were sentenced in a high profile trial, Dickie plays one of the parents. Her motivation to perform this role was her feeling of "responsibility to play people like that and to give them a voice. People that are not necessarily good or nice and have good lives."^[2]

Dickie reprised the role of Jackie in Donkeys, a follow-up to Red Road which is directed by Morag McKinnon. She portrayed Mary in the United Kingdom supernatural thriller film Outcast.^[7]

Dickie was a swimming trainer in 'Dive'2010 alongside Jack McConnel and Aisling Loftus.

She appears in the HBO television series Game of Thrones, where she will be plays the role of Lysa Arryn.^[8]

Personal life

Dickie lives with her daughter Molly (born in 2004) and her boyfriend Kenny, a sound technician, in Kelvinbridge.

Filmography

Stage

Television

Film

Awards and nominations

BAFTA Awards, Scotland

British Independent Film Awards

Chlotrudis Awards

London Critics Circle Film Awards

Montréal Festival of New Cinema

References

External links

• Kate Dickie at the Internet Movie Database
• Red Road Interview
• Sundance Film Festival Interview
• Film Review "Red Road"
• BBC News Article
• BBC Film Network
• Soho Theatre "Aalst"
• Film Review "Aalst"
• Kate Dickie and Pol Heyvaert
• Somers Town
• The Herald Article