Kate Maberly

Kate Maberly
Birth name	Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly
Born	(1982-03-14) 14 March 1982 Reigate, Surrey, England, UK
Genres	Rock, Folk, Pop, Acoustic, Alternative
Instrument(s)	Guitar, cello, piano, vocals
Years active	1991–present

Kate Maberly, born Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly on 14 March 1982, is an English actress, director and musician. She has appeared in film, television, radio and theatre.

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 also an actress. 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, she has won various tennis club leagues in London.

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.

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 lead roles, including Ira in Friendship's Field, Dinah Bellman in The Langoliers, and Vanessa in Mothertime. Since her theatrical film debut in The Secret Garden, Maberly has also moved on to roles from other films such as Gulliver's Travels, Mysteries of Egypt and Finding Neverland. In early 2007, she appeared in two feature films, Like Minds, and Popcorn. In 2012, she will again appear on the big screen in Rites of Passage and Standing Up. 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 audiobook 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 mini album. Maberly demonstrated her musical abilities by 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. Maberly is directing a film adaptation of The Forest of Hands and Teeth which is expected to be released in 2017.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	The Secret Garden	Mary Lennox
1995	Friendship's Field	Ira
1999	Gooseberries Don't Dance		Short film
2002	Deserter	Jennifer
2004	The Audition	Lucy Carrington	Short film
2004	Finding Neverland	Wendy Darling
2006	Like Minds	Susan Mueller
2007	Popcorn	Annie
2008	Boogeyman 3	Jennifer	Video
2011	In the Eyes	Jessica	Short film
2012	Rites of Passage	Dani
2012	The Ghastly Love of Johnny X	Dandi Conners
2013	Standing Up	Margo Cutter
????	1066	Eadgyth Godwinson (rumored)	Pre-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Screen One	Christine	"Ex"
1992	Anglo Saxon Attitudes	Young Kay	TV miniseries
1995	The Langoliers	Dinah Bellman	TV miniseries
1996	Gulliver's Travels	Glumdalclitch	TV miniseries
1997	Gobble	Pippa Worsfold	TV film
1997	Screen Two	Vanessa	"Mothertime"
2000	The Last of the Blonde Bombshells	Young Madeleine	TV film
2001	Victoria & Albert	Princess Alice	TV film
2001	Midsomer Murders	Holly Reid	"Dark Autumn"
2002	A Touch of Frost	Melanie Monkton	"Mistaken Identity: Parts 1 & 2"
2002	Daniel Deronda	Kate Meyrick	TV miniseries
2010	The Booth at the End	Jenny	Recurring role

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 Theatre Company

Discography

Collaborations

Year	Information	Tracks contributed	Artist(s)
1993	The Secret Garden Artist: Various Released: 1993	Mistress Mary Quite Contrary (unlisted)	Andrew Knott
2012	The Ghastly Love of Johnny X Artist: Various Released: 20 November 2012	21. "Here We Go"	Will Keenan, De Anna Joy Brooks, Reggie Bannister, Heather R. Provost (as Heather Provost), Les Williams, Sara Grigsby, Rebecca Burchett, Morris Everett, David Slaughter

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

Other

• Catherine Called Birdie (audiobook narrator)
• Braniff International Airways promotion for "The Braniff Pages" – braniffpages.com (commercial voiceover)
• A voiceover for horse documentary The Origins of the Arabian
• Ordynek, Bringing The Pride of Poland to Texas (commercial voiceover, 2000)

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"

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.

External links

• Kate Maberly at IMDb