Caroline Catz


Caroline Catz is an English film, television, narrator, theatre and radio actress, best known for her role as Louisa Glasson in Doc Martin since 2004.
Her other roles have included Detective Inspector Kate Ashurst in Murder in Suburbia, Detective Inspector Helen Morton in DCI Banks and PC Cheryl Hutchins in The Vice.

Career

Television

Catz began acting in the early 1990s, initially playing minor roles. On registering with Equity, she discovered that an actress with the name Caroline Caplan was already registered, so she had to choose a different professional name.
She played opposite Michael Kitchen in a TV movie, The Guilty in June 1992. In 1994 she took a lead role in the BBC's All Quiet on the Preston Front, which ran for three series. She followed this with a spell in The Bill as Rosie Fox, during which she met Michael Higgs, who later became her husband. Her part in The Bill was the first of four long-term roles in which she played police officers; in The Vice she was a PC, in Murder in Suburbia and DCI Banks she was a Detective Inspector.
Since 2004, Catz has starred in ITV's Doc Martin, where she plays primary school headmistress Louisa Glasson.
Catz has continued to appear in one-off roles, including In Denial of Murder, in which she played real-life murder victim Wendy Sewell, and in an episode of Hotel Babylon. She also appeared in a two-part episode of Single Handed entitled The Stolen Child as Dr Maggie Hunter. Originally shown in Ireland in January 2008, the episode was broadcast by ITV on 9 August 2009.
From 2012 until 2016, she played Detective Inspector Helen Morton in DCI Banks. In November 2016, ITV cancelled the programme.
In 2014, Catz directed the documentary titled A Message to the World...Whatever Happened to Jesse Hector? Also in 2014, she narrated the BBC's television documentary Ebola – The Search for a Cure.
Catz starred in the 2016 BBC One sitcom series I Want My Wife Back, playing the role of Bex.
In 2018, she was the narrator on Britain's Biggest Warship, a documentary series about the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.

Radio

She co-starred in Déjà Vu, a radio play broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 4 February 2009.

Stage

In November 2008 she played Anna, the puppet maker, in the stage production On Emotion. She has previously appeared in the West End in the Out of Joint/Royal Court Theatre production of Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking. In 2012 she played Marlene in Caryl Churchill's play Top Girls directed by Max Stafford-Clark. In 2018, Catz played Susan in Curtains at the Rose Theatre in Kingston.

Personal life

Catz is married to actor Michael Higgs. The couple met on the set of The Bill. They have a son born in 2001 and a daughter born in 2006.
Catz has Polish and Latvian Jewish ancestry.

Filmography

;Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1992The GuiltyNicky Lennon
1994–1997All Quiet on the Preston FrontDawn Lomax
1998–2000The BillRosie Fox
1999–2003The VicePC Cheryl Hutchins
2004In Denial of MurderWendy Sewell
2004–2005Murder in SuburbiaDI Kate "Ash" Ashurst
2004–2019Doc MartinLouisa Glasson9 series
2008/2009Single HandedDr Maggie Hunter
2012–2016DCI BanksDI Helen Morton5 series
2014A Message to the World...Whatever Happened to Jesse Hector?—Director
2014Ebola – The Search for a CureNarrator
2016I Want My Wife BackBex1 series
2018Britain's Biggest WarshipNarrator
2020McDonald & DoddsAlison SpeirsSeries 1, 1 episode

;Film