Kate Hardie
Birthday: Born in 1969-04-26 in
Deathday: Alive
Kate Hardie was born on April 26, 1969 in the UK as Kate Louise Oddie, the daughter of comedian and wildlife presenter Bill Oddie. She is an actress and writer, known for Mona Lisa (1986), The Krays (1990) and Cry Freedom (1987). She was previously married to fashion photographer Rankin and they have a child together. In 2023, Hardie published her first novel, This Is Where We Live, and announced her retirement from acting.
TV Credits
The Ray Bradbury Theater
Character: Miss Treadwell
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories....
Criminal Justice
Character:
Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of the accused....
Criminal Justice
Character: Flo Sexton
Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of the accused....
National Treasure
Character: Rebecca Thornton
Paul Finchley is a bona fide "national treasure", one half of a popular, long-running comedy double act. The famous comedian's world is thrown into chaos when he is accused of historic sexual abuse....
Casualty
Character: Karen O'Malley
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
Smokescreen
Character: Vicky Sheringham
It's the summer of 1907, and cinema is in its infancy. In a northern industrial town two very different movie moguls are battling for the hearts, minds and purses of the local population. Frank Sheringham is an enterprising filmmaker determined to woo audiences away from the local flea-pit run by the villainous Albert Gold. The whole town becomes involved in the vendetta and three local children are at the eye of the storm....
Movie Credits
Mona Lisa
Character: Cathy
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start....
Jack & Sarah
Character: Pamela
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1....
The Krays
Character: Frances
Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two become notorious crime lords who rule over the East End club scene. But at the height of their power, the brothers veer into different lives, giving the older crime bosses a chance to reclaim what the Krays took from them....
Cry Freedom
Character: Jane Woods
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist....
Croupier
Character: Bella
Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino which takes its toll on his relationships and the novel he is writing....
Heart
Character: Tess Ellis
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds....
A Small Dance
Character: Donna Matkin
In the emptiness of the Lincolnshire fens, rural teenager Donna feels trapped in a joyless life with a domineering father and a dull job at the food factory. She grasps at the illusion of affection offered by a passing stranger - and must then cope in lonely terror with pregnancy....
Reckoning
Character: the woman
A short film about suicide....
Number One
Character: Sue
A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money....
Melancholia
Character: Rachel Lanham Franck
Art critic Keller, a German ex-pat living in London, is confronted by his radical 1960s past when he's asked to assassinate a Chilean murderer who is on a visit to London....
Runners
Character: Rachel Lindsay
When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her....
Safe
Character: Kaz
Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London....
Murdered by My Boyfriend
Character: Mum
Drama telling the true story of what happens to a teenage girl when she falls in love with the wrong man. The everyday story of young love turns dark and sinister when the handsome and charming stranger seeks to dominate every aspect of the young woman's life. A tale of contemporary Britain that every young person should watch....
Love Story
Character: Chrisy
Dave, a homeless man, shares a public toilet with narcotic users and alcoholics. Struggling to survive, he resorts to theft to provide for his pregnant girlfriend. Joined by his friend, they steal goods to sell for cash. However, in a world of desperation and exploitation, nothing is simple....
Stars of the Roller State Disco
Character: Margaret
Video-shot on studio sets, Stars of the Roller State Disco borders on science fiction of the dystopian variety. Unemployed youngsters spend their days at the roller disco of the title, circling round and round, before being called to take up low-paid jobs as they become available. They leave the building in a wash of light, though we do not go through that door with them. For others it's a subsistence existence of vending machine food, video games, with sex and drug freely available as distracti...
Thin Air
Character: Rachel Hamilton
Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks....
Rehab
Character: Suzie
TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation programme in order to turn his life around....
Revolution
Character: Carrie
New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur....
Open Fire
Character: Sue Stephens
Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arresting a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile transvestite David Martin is released once again from prison - he's provocative and aggressive and, when he's caught again during a burglary, he shoots one of the police officers, leading to a nation wide manhunt. Innocent filmmaker Steven Waldorf is subsequently shot as a suspect by Finch, provoking a national scandal that rocks the police force....
Brakes
Character: Susan
Brakes is a dark, improv-based ensemble comedy set in London. Divided into two parts, it tells the story of each couple's relationship in reverse, starting with the break-ups....
The Boarding School Bomber
Character: Teacher
Compelling drama-documentary which tells the story of how, three years after the 7/7 attacks on London, a busy shopping centre in Bristol was the intended target of a devastating terrorist attack....
I Am Dina
Character: Stine
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living....
The Spirit of '45
Character: Reader (voice)
How the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society....
Under the Sun
Character: Ellie
Kate Hardie plays a shy 19-year-old bookworm setting out on a world trip, only to be stranded at Málaga after her companion goes off with a local lothario. When her belongings are stolen, Ellie starts learning independence....
Anni Albers: A Life in Thread
Character: Narrator (voice)
How Walter Gropius's decision to relegate Anni Albers to the weaving class of the Bauhaus created the greatest textiles artist the world has ever known....
Beyond Reason
Character: Pvt. Susan Christie
Drama based on a real-life story of a love affair between a married army captain and a young female soldier. Susan Christie and Duncan McAllister have an affair, but Duncan ends the relationship when he's posted to Germany. Three days later, Susan and Duncan's wife, Penny, go for a walk in the woods in Northern Ireland. Fifteen minutes later, Penny is dead and Susan claims they were attacked by an unknown man....
Wings of Death
Character: Looey
In the revolting and decaying Byzantium Hotel, young heroin addict Alex, played by Dexter Fletcher, relives an idyllic - and possibly apocryphal - past before slipping into a much more terrifying world. A sinister little girl wanders the corridors, cutting open her doll "to see what's inside" while winos and junkies prowl as flesh-eating zombies......
Tree of Hands
Character: Carol
A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed visit with her own remedies....