Kate O'Toole (actress)


Kate Eurwen O'Toole is an English actress. She is the daughter of actors Peter O'Toole and Siân Phillips.

Education

O'Toole attended North London Collegiate School and Yale School of Drama.

Career

O'Toole appeared in a 2006 West End production of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke at the Apollo Theatre, London, and is cast in Channel 4's Forgiven. She appeared in the first and third season of the Showtime series The Tudors as Lady Salisbury.
She was nominated for Best Actress at the Irish Times Theatre Awards for her role as Eleanor in Rough Magic Theatre Company's production of Terry Johnson's Dead Funny. She won Best Actress UK in the Barclays/Arts Council Theatre Awards for her performance as 'B' in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women.

Filmography

In 2010 she filmed a remake of Patrice Leconte's classic L'homme du train with Donald Sutherland and U2's Larry Mullen.
Her other film credits include The Confusion of Tongues, Hideaways, Possession, Dancing at Lughnasa, Get Well Soon, Eden, Laughter in the Dark, 32A and John Huston's last film, The Dead, his critically acclaimed adaptation of James Joyce's short story. She appeared in RTÉ One's reality cookery programme The Restaurant where she succeeded in winning four out of a possible five stars.
She was executive producer of the short film Good Luck, Mr Gorski
Minister for Arts, Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan, appointed her to the Irish Film Board in 2013. She is chairwoman of Ireland's highly acclaimed film festival, the Galway Film Fleadh.

Personal life

She was named after American screen legend Katharine Hepburn, whom her father admired and worked with in The Lion in Winter.