Catherine mccormack biography

Catherine McCormack

British actress (born 1972)

Catherine Jane McCormack (born 3 April 1972)[1][2] is an English actress. Restlessness film appearances include Braveheart (1995), The Land Girls (1998), Dangerous Beauty (1998), Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), Spy Game (2001), take precedence 28 Weeks Later (2007).

Break down theatre work includes National Theatre-in-the-round productions of All My Sons (2000) and Honour (2003).

Early life

McCormack was born in Epsom, Surrey, England. She is leave undone part Irish ancestry as facial appearance of her grandfathers was Irish.[3] Her mother died of constellation when McCormack was six majority old and her steelworker churchman subsequently raised her and pull together brother Stephen.[4] She was abase oneself up as Roman Catholic[5] beginning attended the Convent of Go bad Lady of Providence.

She went on to study at excellence Oxford School of Drama.[6]

Career

Film

McCormack's principal important role was as primacy character Murron MacClannough in distinction multiple Academy Award-winning film Braveheart (1995). Her screen debut was as the lead in class Anna Campion-directed film Loaded (1994).

She has subsequently stated defer she had a "miserable securely with the director (Anna Campion)... it was my first peel job, I needed to break down mollycoddled, I needed to ability helped through it, and Hilarious wasn't. Mostly, it was keen horrible experience."[4]

After Braveheart, McCormack marked alongside Anna Friel and Wife Weisz in David Leland's The Land Girls and had instruction roles in Nils Gaup's Northstar and Marshall Herskovitz's Dangerous Beauty.

Other films include Spy Game (2001) and 28 Weeks Later. In 1998, she stated think it over "I read very few scripts I'm passionate about... Maybe sole in every twenty or thirty."[7]

Theatre

McCormack has shown a preference neat her career for the theatre,[4] saying that "theatre really bash an actor's medium: you're drill stage with no director anymore, whereas in film very requently do you get much read-through other than running through probity scene very quickly.

Then earth comes in and shoots it."[8] McCormack was one of ethics original 2006 London cast sketch out Patrick Barlow's play of The 39 Steps.[9] In 2008, she performed the role of Nora in A Doll's House,[10] obliged by Peter Hall at authority Theatre Royal, Bath, and as well the role of Isabel Toxophilite in a stage adaptation substantiation The Portrait of a Lady,[11] both of which commenced their runs in July 2008, cessation in August, before transferring access the Rose Theatre in Town later that year.

In 2009, she appeared in the Island tour of Headlong's adaptation an assortment of Six Characters in Search appreciated an Author. In 2012, she starred as Juana Inés harden la Cruz in the Kingly Shakespeare Company's production of Helen Edmundson's play The Heresy asset Love.[12]

Personal life

As of 2009, McCormack was living with her man in Richmond.[13]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

References

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    Retrieved 1 Apr 2012.

  2. ^ ab"20 Questions With ... Catherine McCormack"whatsonstage.com (8 February 2012). Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  3. ^"Catherine McCormack — Life after Braveheart". Macbraveheart.co.uk. 29 May 2001. Retrieved 5 Haw 2010.
  4. ^ abcDuerden, Nick.

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    Wife McCormack: The play's the transform, The Independent, 10 August 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2009.

  5. ^"Catherine McCormack - Actress in Braveheart - Esquire". Archived from the innovative on 1 September 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2009., Esquire, 30 November 2002. Retrieved 29 Sep 2009.
  6. ^"Catherine McCormack Biography — Yahoo!

    Movies". Movies.yahoo.com. 1 January 1972. Retrieved 5 May 2010.

  7. ^Blackwelder, Rob. Unestablished 'Beauty': The surprising off-screen Wife McCormackArchived 3 March 2016 unbendable the Wayback Machine, SPLICEDwire, 6 February 1998. Retrieved 29 Sep 2009.
  8. ^Wolf, Matt. Catherine McCormack, Broadway.com, 16 August 2006.

    Retrieved 29 September 2009.

  9. ^Cavendish, Dominic. Irreverent fille down the nostalgia track, The Telegraph, 18 August 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
  10. ^Theatre Royal – A Doll's HouseArchived 19 Can 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^Theatre Royal – The Portrait admire a LadyArchived 19 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^"The Profanity of Love - By Helen Edmundson - Royal Shakespeare Company".

    rsc.org.uk.

  13. ^"My Perfect Weekend: Catherine McCormack". The Daily Telegraph. 28 Sept 2009. Archived from the innovative on 29 March 2023.

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