Kate Firth

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Kate Firth
Born 1962
Nigeria, Africa
Nationality British
Ethnicity White British
Parents Both Kate's parents were born and educated in India, where their parents worked in the Church of South India. David was a historian, and they moved to Nigeria in the government educational service for four years. After 4 years in Essex they moved to Hampshire. David retired early and became a counsellor. Shirley taught and studied for a PhD in British Hindu approaches to death and dying. She taught at various universities. They had two exchange posts in the US, one to St. Louis and one to the University of Southern Maine.
Relatives Colin Firth (brother) Jonathan Firth (brother)

Kate Firth (born in 1962) is a professional voice coach and stage actress, and sister to actors Colin Firth and Jonathan Firth. She has a therapeutic counselor background in the field of human communication, and extensive experience in theatre, psychology and applied linguistics.

Life and Work

Kate Firth was born in Nigeria in 1962. Her parents, Shirley Jean (née Rolles)and David Norman Lewis Firth were both children of Methodist missionaries in Nigeria, and after their marriage worked as teachers in that country. The family moved many times, from Essex to Billericay and Brentwood, and then to St. Louis in the U.S. for a year when Kate was ten years old and her brother Colin was twelve. Upon returning to England the family settled in Winchester, where her father became a history lecturer at King Alfred's College and her mother was a comparative religion lecturer at King Alfred's College Winchester (now the University of Winchester).

Firth attended Queen Mary College (1982-85), San Diego State University (1990–92), and Middlesex University (2011). She initially pursued a career in acting, studying drama at university. After an acting stint with the Royal National Theatre, Kate received a postgraduate diploma in Voice Studies from The Central School of Speech and Drama and a postgraduate certificate in Psychosynthesis Therapeutic Counselling.[1] She married after university and moved to California. Upon returning to England in 1992, Kate joined the Bridge Theatre Company in Sherringham, Norfolk and received good reviews as Hedda Gabler. She lives and works in London, England.

For The King's Speech (2010), Kate coached her older brother Colin to prepare for his role as King George VI in the award winning film and to master stammering.[1] She described herself as being his personal advisor.[1]

Theatre Credits

  • Three Days of Rain (Donmar)
  • Taming of the Shrew (Bristol Old Vic)
  • Various plays at Jermyn St Theatre
  • Lula in Dutchman (Experimental Theatre)
  • Hedda Gabler (Bridge Theatre Company, 1992)
  • Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice (New End, 1993)[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Polly Dunbar, "Revealed: The little sister who taught Colin Firth to stammer for acclaimed role in The King's Speech", 23 January 2011. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
  2. ↑ Merchant of Venice, The, Harris/Henderson, Very Fine Productions, March 1993

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