Kate Gorman
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
Kate Gorman is an Australian actress who appears in many well TV shows, films and theatre in Australian and United Kingdom. She is the daughter of Australian actor Reg Gorman and actress Judith Roberts and mother of actress Olivia Deeble. Gorman got her first job in TV when she was 6 on The Sullivans (1976), in which her father, Reg, played Jack Fletcher. Kate has worked with family many times; Reg and Kate played father and daughter in A Cry in the Dark (1988) and she played her mother's granddaughter and her sister's sister in the stage musical Seven Little Australians. She started working full time in television at age 15, winning the lead role in Zoo Family (1985). Moving into directing later in her career, her first feature film, Five Moments of Infidelity (2006), which she wrote and directed, won best film at DIGI SPAA and critics choice at the Salento Film Festival in Italy.
TV Credits
Kath & Kim
Character: Dannii Boulton
Kath & Kim is a character-driven Australian television situation comedy series. The series was created by, and is written by Jane Turner and Gina Riley who play the title characters: a suburban mother and daughter with a dysfunctional relationship. The series main characters consist of Kath Day-Knight, a cheerful 50-year-old woman, her self-indulgent daughter Kim Craig, Kath's boyfriend and second husband, the metrosexual Kel Knight, as well as Kim's estranged husband Brett Craig and her lonely,...
Rush
Character: Carla
They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide. Rush was an Australian television police drama that first screened on Network Ten in September 2008. Set in Melbourne, Victoria, it focuses on the members of a Police Tactical Response team. It is produced by John Edwards and Southern Star. On 10 November 2011, as with Network Ten setting out DVD promotions for the finale of season 4, David Kno...
Zoo Family
Character: Susie Mitchell
Follows a family who live at Melbourne Zoo in Victoria, Australia. Doctor David Mitchell is the zoo's veterinarian. His children Nick and Susie love being with all the animals....
Jack Irish
Character: Carol Tregear
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don’t want to be found – dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him....
Movie Credits
The Craic
Character: Margo
When Fergus and Wesley get in the bad books of a local rough in their home town in Northern Ireland they decide to flee to Australia. After making a new life for themselves in Sydney they soon outstay their visas and must go on the run again, this time from the immigration officials....
Blowing Hot and Cold
Character: Sally Phillips
The story of two men from opposite backgrounds and social structures who become friends. Jack Phillips is a laid-back, wry service station proprietor in a small Australian country town. His world is disrupted when a fast talking, gesticulating, vocal Italian, Nino Patrovita bursts upon the scene....
The Face of Birth
Character: Self
An inspiring look at how wonderful birth can be when your right to choose how, where and with whom you give birth is respected & protected. Every woman has the right to be informed about their options in childbirth. Through an exploration of home birth, this 87 min film looks at what natural, physiological childbirth really is. Is birth a medical emergency waiting to happen or a profound, natural and physiological event that women are designed for? The most comprehensive film ever made on home...
Evil Angels
Character: Rosalie Whittaker
Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder....
The Tinsel Years
Character: Donna
Lonely in the mundane rigmarole of living, Jane (being very much alive and well) plots her own fake funeral. Though soon her true intentions of winning over her Mall-Santa business entrepreneur Mother start to reveal themselves....