Kate Fahy

Kate Fahy
Born (1950-01-29) 29 January 1950 (age 74)
OccupationActor. Director
Years active1971 to present
Spouse
(m. 2015)
Children3

Kate Fahy, Lady Pryce (born 29 January 1950), is an English actor and director. She is known primarily for playing Patricia in Joanna Hogg's 2010 film Archipelago and playing Stevie in Edward Albee's play The Goat or Who is Sylvia at the Almeida Theatre and the Apollo West End. She has worked extensively in theatre, film and television since 1971.

Career

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Fahy trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She made her theatre debut at the Playhouse Theatre in Liverpool in Ray Cooney's Not Now Darling, followed by two years at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool playing leading roles in The Taming of The Shrew, The Country Wife, Ted Whitehead's The Sea Anchor and Mike Stott's Funny Peculiar.[when?] Her television career started soon after[when?] with Arthur Hopcraft's series The Nearly Man at Granada, directed by John Irvin. She has since appeared in numerous stage plays, television and feature films both in the UK and the US.

In recent years[when?] she has directed three plays, Oliver Cotton's Wet Weather Cover at the Kings Head and Arts Theatre WE, Jean-Claude Carriere's play Little Black Book at Park Theatre, and again at Park Theatre, Alexander Bodin-Saphir's play Rosenbaum's Rescue.

She played Stevie in the first London production of Edward Albee's The Goat, opposite her partner Jonathan Price.[1]

Personal life

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Fahy has been married twice. She met actor Jonathan Pryce in 1972. They had three children, and married in 2015.[2]

Filmography

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Year Film Role Notes
1975 The Nearly Man Millie Dutton TV series (5 episodes)
1978 The Sweeney Julie Kingdom TV series (1 episode 'Drag Act' S4 E3)
1980 Life for Christine Rose TV film
1981 Bognor Coriander Cordingley TV series (6 episodes)
ITV Playhouse Angela Birley TV series (1 episode: "Sin with Our Permission")
Roger Doesn't Live Here Anymore Rose TV series (6 episodes)
1984 Bergerac Fleur Ewell TV series (1 episode: "House Guests")
Oxbridge Blues Eileen/Lizzie TV series (2 episodes)
1985 Storyboard Deidre Aitken TV series (1 episode: "King & Castle")
1986 ScreenPlay The Mozart Inquest TV series
1991 The House of Elliot Alice Burgoyne TV series (11 episodes: 1991–1993)
1996 Frontiers Diane Lightfoot TV series
1997 Trial and Retribution Meg Richards TV series (2 episodes)
1999 Pure Wickedness Detective Inspector Mary Carson TV series
2000 A Likeness in Stone Mrs. Warner TV film
2001 The Fourth Angel Gail (Jack's Secretary)
2002 The Jury Dr. Emma McGlade TV series
2005 Cherished Mrs. Justice Hallett TV film
2006 The Living and the Dead Nancy Brocklebank
The Best Man Dr. Cowley TV film
2008 Defiance Riva Reich
2010 Silent Witness Margaret Hudson TV series (1 episode: "Intent: Part II")
Archipelago Patricia
2011 The hour Jemima Sherwin BBC Series
Happy Accident Claire Short
2013 Holby City Mary Tinsley BBC Series (Series 15 ?)
2014 Death In paradise Emma Red Planet Series
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Georgina Shore Ep. Beyond the Pale
2017 Doctors Ruth Hunter
2018 Witless (Series 3) Jane Objective Prods
2019 (?) The Show Karen Phoenix Films
Don't Forget the Driver Lyn BBC series
2022 This England Clare Edwards Sky
A Spy Among Friends Dora Philby ITV
2023 A Paris Proposal Marion Durand Hallmark TV film
Casualty Mags Pine BBC

References

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  1. ^ Billington, Michael (4 February 2004). "The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  2. ^ Kellaway, Kate (16 September 2018). "Jonathan Pryce: 'I'd rather be Welsh than English, that's for sure'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
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