Kate Goehring


Kate Goehring is an American stage, film and television actress.

Early life

Goehring is originally from West Hartford, Connecticut and grew up on Mason's Island. Goehring's father was Edmund Goehring, Sr., a commander in the Navy in World War II and a vice president of sales for an electronics company. Her mother, Helen Goehring, is a writer and retired development director.

Education

Goehring graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in American Romantic Fiction and moved to Chicago, acting in loop and off-loop productions, starting with Stage Left, and Wisdom Bridge Theatre.

Career

Film and television

Goehring co-starred in the independent feature Swimmers, as well as appearing on Law & Order, ' and '. She starred opposite David Jason as Detective Grace Wallace in ITV's March in Windy City. Other co-starring roles include Stella, Gossip Girl, One Life to Live, ER, and The Untouchables. Goehring also originated the character of Magenta in the video game Grand Theft Auto V. She was nominated for a Chicago local Emmy for her performance in John Logan's Moment of Rage, starring Denis O'Hare.

Theater

Goehring was most recently in the Broadway company of "The Inheritance", directed by Stephen David Daldry. She also recently played Eleanor of Aquitane in the Folger Shakespeare Library production of Shakespeare's "The Life and Death of King John", and Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest" at New York Classical Theatre. In Chicago, she has worked with theaters including the Court Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Northlight Theatre, and Bailiwick Repertory Theatre. She earned her Equity Card in the process She also began work throughout the country, at such theaters as the Intiman, A Contemporary Theatre, Arena Stage, the McCarter Theatre, the Huntington Theatre Company, the Triad Stage, and Milwaukee Repertory. She played Bella opposite Judy Kaye in Lost in Yonkers at the Arizona Theatre Company.
Goehring first garnered notice for her Chicago performance in Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild for which she won a Joseph Jefferson Citation. Early on in Chicago, she was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Candida at the Court Theatre. She played Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner's first national tour of Angels in America, which earned her a Miami Carbonell Award. Other more recent credits include playing Vivian Bearing, PhD, in Margaret Edson's Wit, at North Carolina Theatre, for which she won Best Actress in a Play ; and Mother Radiunt in the Triad Stage world premiere of ''.

Awards

Goehring has received the following: