Kate Maberly
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| Kate Maberly | |
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| Birth name | Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly |
| Born | 14 March 1982 Reigate, Surrey, England |
| Genres | Rock, Folk, Pop, Acoustic, Alternative |
| Instruments | Guitar, Cello, Piano, Vocals |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Website | http://www.katemaberly.co.uk/ |
Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly (born 14 March 1982) is an English actress and musician. She has appeared in film, television, radio and on stage.
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[edit] Early life
Maberly was born in Reigate, Surrey, England. She is the daughter of a lawyer and one of five children; her older sister Polly is an actress as well. She has two older brothers, Thomas and Guy, and one younger brother, Jack. Maberly attended Dunottar School, Reigate.
Maberly joined a swimming team at the age of 5 and was a county champion swimmer up to the age of 16. She represented her county in tennis from the age of 12, and since 2000, has won various tennis club leagues in London[citation needed].
Maberly skipped a year of school, and graduated from London's Trinity College of Music in 2004 with a joint honours degree in piano and cello performance. She enjoys singing, and writing music.
[edit] Career
Her breakthrough role came in 1993 when she starred as Mary Lennox in the feature film The Secret Garden. This internationally acclaimed performance paved the way for several subsequent leading roles, including Ira in the 1995 movie Friendship's Field, the blind girl Dinah Bellman in the 1995 movie The Langoliers, and Vanessa in the 1997 BBC TV Drama Mothertime.
Since The Secret Garden, Maberly has also gone on to roles in the 1996 miniseries Gulliver's Travels starring Ted Danson, costarring as the granddaughter of Omar Sharif's character in the 1998 IMAX film Mysteries of Egypt, and as the actress who plays Wendy Darling in the 2004 film Finding Neverland. In early 2007, she appeared in two feature films, the Australian/UK thriller Like Minds, and the British teen comedy Popcorn. In 2012, she will again appear on the big screen in Rites of Passage and The Goats. She has performed voice-overs for Ordynek, Bringing the Pride of Poland to Texas in 2000, and for The Braniff Pages in 2001. She has completed several radio works for BBC Radio 4, including The Dorabella Variation, A Certain Smile, and National Velvet. Maberly's narration of the audio book Catherine Called Birdy, written by Karen Cushman, received an Audie Award in 1995. More recently, Maberly teamed up with a London area music producer to record several of her own songs for a new EP.
Maberly demonstrated her musical abilities playing the piano in the 1995 BBC drama Mothertime, and playing the cello in the 2004 short film The Audition. She also produced and directed a music video for the Danish rock band Blooq a.k.a Triggerbox.
[edit] Credits
[edit] Filmography
| Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1993 | The Secret Garden | Mary Lennox | |
| 1995 | Friendships Field | Ira | |
| 1997 | Mothertime | Vanessa | |
| 1998 | Mysteries of Egypt | Granddaughter | |
| 1999 | Gooseberries Don’t Dance | Guest | |
| 2002 | Deserter | Jennifer Murray | |
| 2004 | Audition | Lucy Carrington | |
| Finding Neverland | Wendy Darling | ||
| 2006 | Like Minds | Susan Mueller | |
| Blood on Benefits | Rianne | ||
| 2007 | Popcorn | Annie | |
| 2009 | Boogeyman 3 | Jennifer | |
| 2010 | The Story of Bonnie and Clyde | Billy Parker | |
| 2011 | The Ghastly Love of Johnny X | Dandi Conners | |
| Rites of Passage | Dani | ||
| 2012 | The Goats | Margo Cutter | |
| Television | |||
| Unknown | Spatz | Herself | |
| As If | Co-Co | ||
| Daniel Deronda | Kate Meyrick | ||
| The Booth at The End | Jenny | ||
| 1991 | Ex | Christine | |
| 1992 | Anglo Saxon Attitudes | Kay | |
| 1995 | The Langoliers | Dinah Catherine Bellman | |
| 1996 | Gulliver's Travels | Glumdalclitch | |
| 1997 | Gobble | Pippa | |
| 2000 | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Young Madeleine | |
| 2001 | Midsomer Murders | Holly Reig | |
| Victoria & Albert | Princess Alice | ||
| 2002 | Touch of Frost | Melanie Monkton | |
[edit] Theatre
- A reading of Christopher Hampton's Total Eclipse (directed by Daniel Evans) at the Royal Court Theatre (2006)
- Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (directed by Richard Twyman) with Midas Touch Theate Company
[edit] Radio
- The Shoemaker's Daughter
- The Dora Bella Variation
- Little Women
- Walls Of Silence
- National Velvet
- A Certain Smile
- My Wounded Heart
- Peter Pan in Scarlet
- The Browning Version
[edit] Other works
- Catherine Called Birdie (audiobook narrator)
- Braniff Airway's Promotion for "The Braniff Pages" - braniffpages.com (commercial voiceover)
- A voiceover for The Origins of the Arabian, a documentary on horses
- Ordynek, Bringing The Pride of Poland to Texas (commercial voiceover, 2000)
[edit] Publications
- Article Factory Magazine (USA) April 2007, Iss. Spring, pg. 54-62, "British Young Guns"
- Pictorial Factory Magazine (USA) April 2007, Iss. Spring, pg. 54-64, "British Young Guns"
[edit] Awards
Maberly has won two professional awards:
- Audie Award for Catherine Called Birdie
- Special Award from The London Film Critics Circle for The Secret Garden.
[edit] External links
- 1982 births
- Audio book narrators
- English child actors
- English female singers
- English film actors
- English female guitarists
- English pop pianists
- English pop singers
- English radio actors
- English singer-songwriters
- English television actors
- English voice actors
- Living people
- People from Surrey
- Shakespearean actors
- People educated at Dunottar School for Girls
