Kate Maberly

Infobox actor


name = Kate Maberly
yearsactive = 1991–present
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birthplace = Surrey, England
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birthname = Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly
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URL = http://www.katemaberly.co.uk/Infobox musical artist
Name = Kate Maberly
Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly
Born = birth date and age|1982|3|14
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Genre = Rock, Folk, Pop, Acoustic, Alternative
Instrument = Guitar, Cello, Piano, Vocals
Years_active = 1991–present
URL = http://www.katemaberly.co.uk/

Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly (born 14 March 1982) is an English actress and musician (playing piano and cello, singing, and writing music). She has appeared in film, television, radio and on stage.

Early life

Maberly was born in Surrey, England. She is the daughter of an attorney and one of five children; her older sister Polly is an actress as well. She has two older brothers Thomas and Guy, and one younger brother Jack.

Maberly joined a swimming team when she was 5 years old, 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 has won various tennis club leagues in LondonFact|date=June 2008.

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.

Career

Her breakthrough role came in 1993 when, at the age of ten, she starred as Mary Lennox in "The Secret Garden". This internationally acclaimed performance paved the way for several subsequent leading roles, including Ira in the 1995 movie "Friendship's Field", the blind girl Dinah Bellman in the 1995 movie "The Langoliers", and Vanessa in the 1997 BBC TV Drama "Mothertime".

Since "The Secret Garden", Maberly has also gone on to roles in the 1996 miniseries "Gulliver's Travels" starring Ted Danson, costarring as the granddaughter of Omar Sharif's character in the 1998 IMAX film "Mysteries of Egypt", and as the actress who plays Wendy Darling in the 2004 film "Finding Neverland". In early 2007, she appeared in two feature films, the Australian/UK thriller "Like Minds", and the British teen comedy "Popcorn". Kate recently filmed Boogeyman 3, set for a summer 2009 release on DVD.

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 audio book "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 EP.

Maberly demonstrated her musical abilities playing the piano in the 1995 BBC drama "Mothertime", and playing the cello in the 2004 short film "The Audition". She recorded several of her own songs for an EP available in summer of '08.

She also produced and co-directed a music video for the Danish rock band Blooq a.k.a Triggerbox.

Movies

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Title = The Secret Garden
Year = 1993
Role = Mary LennoxActingFilmography-movie
Title = Friendships Field
Year = 1995
Role = IraActingFilmography-movie
Title = The Langoliers
Year = 1995
Role = Dinah Catherine BellmanActingFilmography-movie
Title = Mothertime
Year = 1997
Role = VanessaActingFilmography-movie
Title = Mysteries of Egypt
Year = 1998
Role = GranddaughterActingFilmography-movie
Title = Gooseberries Don’t Dance
Year = 1999
Role = GuestActingFilmography-movie
Title =Deserter
Year =2002
Role =Jennifer MurrayActingFilmography-movie
Title = Audition
Year = 2004, short film
Role = Lucy CarringtonActingFilmography-movie
Title =Finding Neverland
Year = 2004
Role = Wendy DarlingActingFilmography-movie
Title = Like Minds aka Murderous Intent
Year = 2006
Role = Susan MuellerActingFilmography-movie
Title = Blood on Benefits
Year = 2006, short film
Role = RianneActingFilmography-movie
Title = Popcorn
Year = 2007
Role = AnnieActingFilmography-movie
Title = Boogeyman 3
Year = 2009
Role = Jennifer

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 Theate Company

Television

* "Spatz" (guest appearance)
* Christine in "Ex" (1991)
* Kay in "Anglo Saxon Attitudes" (1992)
* Glumdalclitch in "Gulliver's Travels" (1996)
* Pippa in "Gobble" (1997)
* Young Madeleine in "The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)
* Holly Reig in "Midsomer Murders" (guest appearance) in episode 4.5 "Dark Autumn" September 16, 2001
* Princess Alice in "Vicoria and Abert" (2001)
* Melanie Monkton in "Touch of Frost" (guest appearance) in episodes 9.1 & 9.2 "Mistaken Identity" January 27 & 28th, 2002
* Co-Co in "As If" (guest appearance)
* Kate Meyrick in "Daniel Deronda"

Radio

* "The Shoemaker's Daughter"
* "The Dora Bella Variation"
* "Little Women"
* "Walls Of Silence"
* "National Velvet"
* Dominique in "A Certain Smile"
* "My Wounded Heart"
* Wendy in "Peter Pan in Scarlet" (2006)

Other works

* "Catherine Called Birdie" (audiobook narrator)
* Braniff Airway's Promotion for "The Braniff Pages" - braniffpages.com (commercial voiceover)
* A voiceover for "The Origins of the Arabian", a documentary on horses
* "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".

References

External links

*imdb name|id=531069|name=Kate Maberly
* [http://www.cam.co.uk/actresses/kate-maberly/ Resume at CAM]
* [http://www.katemaberly.co.uk Kate's Website]
* [http://www.katemaberly.org Kate Maberly Unofficial Fan Site]