Kate O'Toole (actress)
Kate O'Toole | |
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| Born | Kate Eurwen O'Toole 26 February 1960 Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Parent(s) | Peter O'Toole Siân Phillips |
Kate Eurwen O'Toole (/ˈɛərwɛn/ AIR-wen, Welsh: [ˈɛiruːɛn]; born 26 February 1960) is an English actress.
Early life and education[edit]
O'Toole was born on 26 February 1960 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. She is the daughter of actors Peter O'Toole and Siân Phillips.
Filmography[edit]
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 film festival, the Galway Film Fleadh.[1]
Personal life[edit]
She was named after American actress Katharine Hepburn,[2] whom her father admired and would later work with in The Lion in Winter.
In November 2008, O'Toole was convicted of driving while drunk and disqualified from driving for three years. Her blood sample showed that she was three times over the legal drink-drive limit.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "Board of Directors". Galway Film Fleadh. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ Peter O'Toole Discusses Katharine Hepburn / 2011, archived from the original on 15 December 2021, retrieved 15 December 2019
- ^ Irish Times, 28 November 2008, report by John Fallon, retrieved 5 November 2020
External links[edit]
- Kate O'Toole at IMDb
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- 1960 births
- Living people
- 20th-century English actresses
- 21st-century English actresses
- Circle in the Square Theatre School alumni
- English people of Irish descent
- English people of Scottish descent
- English people of Welsh descent
- People educated at North London Collegiate School
- Actresses from Stratford-upon-Avon
- David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni