Kate Fleetwood
Kate Fleetwood (born 24 September 1972) is an English actress. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, which first opened at Chichester Festival Theatre and was transferred to the West End and Broadway,[1] and for an Olivier Award for her performance as Julie in London Road at the National Theatre. She is patron of En Masse Theatre,[2] and joint patron, with husband Rupert Goold, of Escape Arts' youth arts work.[3]
Kate Fleetwood | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 September 1972 Cirencester, England |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Children | 2 |
Early life
Fleetwood grew up near Stratford-upon-Avon, and she is a graduate of Exeter University.[4] She attended Trinity Catholic School in Leamington Spa. She began her career at the Royal Shakespeare Company during her childhood.[5]
Personal life
She is married to Rupert Goold, who directed her in Macbeth;[6] they have a son and a daughter.
Acting credits
Stage
- Love Is the Drug (1995, Oxford Stage Company (OSC)) as Flamina
- Twelfth Night (1996, OSC) as Viola
- Swaggers (1996, Old Red Lion Theatre) as Nancy
- The Comic Mysteries (1997, UK tour) as Death/Gabriel
- Romeo and Juliet (1998, UK tour) as Juliet
- Arabian Nights (1998, Young Vic) as Dinarzard/Parizade
- Ghosts (1999, Theatre Royal Plymouth) as Regina
- Nativity (1999, Young Vic)
- The Two Noble Kinsmen (2000, Shakespeare's Globe) as the gaoler's daughter
- The Tempest (2000, Shakespeare's Globe) as Iris
- Tender (2001, Hampstead Theatre/ Birmingham Rep/ Theatre Royal Plymouth) as Tash
- Medea (2001, (Queen's Theatre) as Chorus
- Mariana Pineda (2002, Gate Theatre) as Mariana Pineda
- Love's Labour's Lost (2003, National Theatre) as Rosaline
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (2003, Bristol Old Vic) as Helena
- Othello (2003, Theatre Royal Northampton) as Desdemona
- Hecuba (2004, Donmar Warehouse) as Polyxena
- Pericles (2006, Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)) as Thaisa
- The Winter's Tale (2006, RSC) as Hermione
- King Lear (2014, National Theatre) as Goneril
- National Theatre Live: King Lear (2014) as Goneril
- High Society (2015, The Old Vic) as Tracy Lord
- Medea (2015, Almeida Theatre) as Medea
- Ugly Lies the Bone (2017 National Theatre) as Jess
- Absolute Hell (2018 National Theatre) as Christine
Film
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Getting Hurt | Prostitute | TV film |
| 2004 | Vanity Fair | Miss Pinkerton's Crone | |
| 2006 | After Thomas | Kate | TV film |
| 2007 | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Woman with Baby | |
| 2009 | Breaking the Mould | Margaret Jennings | TV film |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 | Mary Cattermole | |
| 2010 | Macbeth | Lady Macbeth | TV film |
| 2012 | Les Misérables | Factory Woman 1 | |
| 2013 | Philomena | Young Sister Hildegarde | |
| 2014 | National Theatre Live: King Lear | Goneril | |
| 2015 | London Road | Vicky | |
| Star Wars: The Force Awakens | First Order Officer | ||
| 2016 | The People Next Door | Yvonne | TV film |
| Deliverers | Eve | ||
| 2018 | Beirut | Alice Riley | |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Network | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Holby City | Karina | BBC One | Episode: "Tip of the Iceberg" |
| The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells | Maggie | Hallmark Channel | Episode: "Brownlow's Newspaper" | |
| EastEnders | Karen | BBC One | 4 episodes | |
| Urban Gothic | Woman | Channel 5 | Episode: "The End" | |
| 2002 | Doctors | Anna Fielding | BBC One | Episode: "Deceptive Appearances" |
| Dalziel and Pascoe | Jill Lowry | BBC One | Episode: "The Unwanted" | |
| 2004 | The Bill | Lois Townsend | ITV | Episode: "Smoking Gun" |
| Silent Witness | Sienna Ricci | BBC One | Episode: "Death by Water" | |
| 2005 | Twisted Tales | Jacqueline | Fox | Episode: "Flat Four" |
| Murphy's Law | Jill | BBC One | Episode: "Strongbox" | |
| Midsomer Murders | Sarah Douglas | ITV | Episode: "Midsomer Rhapsody" | |
| Nathan Barley | Mandy | Channel 4 | Episode: "Pilot" | |
| 2007 | Foyle's War | Lydia Nicholson | ITV | Episode: "Casualties of War" |
| 2009 | Hustle | MP Rhona Christie | BBC One | Episode: "Politics" |
| Casualty 1909 | Grace Barnes | BBC One | Episode: #1.4 | |
| Waking the Dead | Zoe Morrison | BBC One | Episode: "End of the Night" | |
| The Sarah Jane Adventures | Ship | CBBC | Episode: "The Mad Woman in the Attic" | |
| 2012 | A Touch of Cloth | Kate Cloth | Sky One | Episode: "The First Case" |
| 2013 | Way to Go | Amanda | BBC Three | Episode: "Dead End" |
| 2014 | The Widower | Felicity Webster | ITV | Series regular |
| 2016 | War & Peace | Anisya | BBC One | Episode: #1.4 |
| 2017-2019 | Harlots | Nancy Birch | ITV Encore | Series regular |
| 2019 | Victoria | Princess Feodora | ITV | Series regular |
| Rise of the Nazis | Narrator | BBC Two | 3 episodes | |
| 2020 | Brave New World | Sheila | Peacock | 4 episodes |
| 2021 | Fate: The Winx Saga | Queen Luna | Netflix | Recurring cast |
| The Wheel of Time | Liandrin Guirale | Prime Video | Series regular | |
References
- "2008 Tony Award Winners". The New York Times. 15 June 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
- "Patron: Kate Fleetwood". En Masse Theatre. Archived from the original on 10 March 2009. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- "Our Patrons". Escape Arts. Archived from the original on 7 March 2020. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- Marlowe, Sam (2 May 2018). "Kate Fleetwood: 'The more versatile you are, the better chance of longevity'". The Stage. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Kiper, Dmitry (17 April 2008). "Kate Fleetwood | Fresh Face". Broadway.com. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- Quarmby, Kevin A. (chapter 5 only) (2014). "Chapter 5 | Lady MacBeth, First Ladies and the Arab Spring: The Performance of Power on the Twenty-First Century Stage". In Thompson, Ann (ed.). Macbeth: The State of Play. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-4725-0319-0. Retrieved 23 January 2022 – via Academia.edu.
... Rupert Goold directed his wife, Kate Fleetwood, in a far more contentious and internationally applauded production of MacBeth.