Kate Burton (actress)
Kate Burton | |
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Born | Katherine Burton September 10, 1957 Geneva, Switzerland |
Education | Brown University (BA) Yale University (MFA) |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1982–present |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Parents |
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Katherine Burton (born September 10, 1957)
Early life
Burton was born in
Career
Stage work
Burton's first notable role on Broadway was in a 1982 production of the Noël Coward play Present Laughter directed by George C. Scott. The following year, she appeared in the Broadway musical Doonesbury, playing J.J. Burton also appeared as Alice in Eva Le Gallienne's Alice in Wonderland on Broadway, produced by The Mirror Theater Ltd's Sabra Jones. Several key roles followed, including roles in Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter and Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane.[8][9]
In 2002, she received
Film and television
Burton's first screen appearance was in the 1969 film Anne of the Thousand Days, starring her father, with whom she later appeared as Alice opposite his White Knight in the 1983 Great Performances broadcast of Alice in Wonderland, and in the 1984 CBS miniseries Ellis Island. Other films include Big Trouble in Little China, The First Wives Club, Life with Mikey, and The Ice Storm. Burton has said of these roles that she usually plays "the sweet wife, or the sweet dead wife."[17]
Burton has been perhaps most prolific in her work on television. She made many television appearances in the late 1980s and 1990s on such episodic shows as
Some of her recurring television roles have involved subplots concerning
Like Schwimmer's character in Monty, Burton and Pompeo (who portrays Meredith) also have a small age gap, with Pompeo being 12 years her junior. In-universe, Meredith (born 1978) is 25 years younger than Ellis (born 1953), with Pompeo aged down 11 years and Burton aged up 4 years. (Though the character's exact ages were not determined until a
In 2011, Burton appeared as Marie Kessler, a veteran monster hunter, and the aunt of Nick Burkhardt in the opening episodes of the NBC supernatural drama
Other work
Burton has narrated numerous audiobooks, including works by: Patricia Cornwell, Lisa Scottoline, Iris Johansen, and Dean Koontz.[24]
Personal life
In 1985, Burton married Michael Ritchie,[25] Artistic Director of the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles and one of the producers of the Broadway musicals The Drowsy Chaperone and Curtains.[26] They met in 1982, while Ritchie was stage manager of a revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City in which Burton was playing the character Daphne.[27] They have two children, a son, Morgan Ivor[28][29] and a daughter, Charlotte Frances.[30][31]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1969 | Anne of the Thousand Days | Serving Maid | Uncredited |
1986 | Big Trouble in Little China | Margo Litzenberger | |
1993 | Life with Mikey | Mrs. Burns | |
1996 | August | Helen Blathwaite | |
1996 | The First Wives Club | Woman in Bed | |
1997 | The Ice Storm | Dorothy Franklin | |
1998 | Celebrity | Cheryl | |
2000 | The Opportunists | Rest Home Sister | |
2002 | Unfaithful | Tracy | |
2002 | Swimfan | Carla Cronin | |
2003 | The Paper Mache Chase | Martha | Short film |
2005 | Stay | Mrs. Letham | |
2006 | Sherrybaby | Marcia Swanson | |
2007 | Lovely by Surprise | Helen | |
2008 | What Just Happened | Dr. Randall | |
2008 | Quid Pro Quo | Merilee | |
2008 | Max Payne | Nicole Horne | |
2009 | The Kings of Appletown
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Aunt Birdy | |
2009 | Spooner | Alice Spooner | |
2010 | Remember Me | Janine | |
2010 | Consent | Susan | |
2010 | 127 Hours | Aron's Mom | |
2011 | Puncture | Senator O'Reilly | |
2012 | Liberal Arts | Susan | |
2012 | 2 Days in New York | Bella | |
2012 | Mariachi Gringo | Anne | |
2014 | Barefoot | Mrs. Wheeler | |
2015 | Bleeding Heart | Martha | |
2015 | Martyrs | Eleanor | |
2015 | Amok | Dr. Wilson | |
2019 | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Ellen Idelson | |
2022 | Breaking | Tami Stackhouse | |
2023 | Our Son | Maggie | |
2023 | The Anne Frank Gift Shop | Ilse | Short film |
2023 | Dumb Money | Elaine Gill |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1983, 2017 | Great Performances | Alice / Liz Essendine | 2 episodes |
1984 | Ellis Island | Vanessa Ogden | Miniseries 3 episodes |
1985 | Evergreen | Agatha Bradford | Episode: "1.2" |
1987 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Ophelia | Television film |
1987–1988 | Spenser: For Hire | Randy Lofficier | 2 episodes |
1988 | American Playhouse | Agnes Bolton O'Neill | Episode: "Journey Into Genius" |
1992 | Law & Order | Sister Bettina | Episode: "Sisters of Mercy" |
1992 | Home Fires | Anne Kramer | 6 episodes |
1993 | Brooklyn Bridge | Susan Lowenberg Jones | Episode: "Keeping Up with the Joneses" |
1993 | Love Matters | Deborah | Television film |
1994 | Monty | Fran Richardson | 13 episodes |
1994 | All My Children | Dr. Renee Peters | Unknown episodes |
1995 | ABC Afterschool Special | Brenda Gardner | Episode: "Notes for My Daughter" Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special |
1996 | Mistrial
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Katherine Donohue | Television film |
1997 | Ellen Foster
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Abigail Montford | Television film |
1997–2004 | The Practice | A.D.A. Susan Alexander | 9 episodes |
2001–2009 | Law & Order | Erica Gardner | 4 episodes |
2001 | 100 Centre Street | Sheila Byrne | Episode: "My Brother's Keeper" |
2001 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Stephanie Uffland | Episode: "The Pardoner's Tale" |
2002 | Obsessed | Sara Miller | Television film |
2003 | The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
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Connie Posey | Television film |
2004 | The West Wing | Sarah Brainerd | Episode: "Slow News Day" |
2005 | Judging Amy | Dr. Sheri Jordan | Episode: "Silent Era" |
2005 | Empire Falls | Cindy Whiting | 2 episodes |
2005 | American Masters | Voice of Novels | Episode: "Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea" |
2005 | Numb3rs | Anthropologist | Episode: "Bones of Contention" |
2005–2006 | Rescue Me | Rose | 6 episodes |
2005–present | Grey's Anatomy | Ellis Grey | 26 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (2006–07) |
2006 | Justice | Sarah Miller | Episode: "Death Spiral" |
2007 | Supreme Courtships | Justice Suzanne Mary Lynch | Unsold TV pilot |
2008 | Medium | Bonnie Barrister | Episode: "To Have and to Hold" |
2009 | Eleventh Hour | Gepetto / Miranda Cochran | Episode: "Pinocchio" |
2009 | Washingtonienne | Joy | Episode: "Pilot" |
2009–2012 | The Good Wife | Victoria Adler | 3 episodes |
2010 | The Deep End | Grace Graham | Episode: "Pilot" |
2011 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Annette Cole | Episode: "Bully" |
2011 | Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior | Deirdre Norris | Episode: "Smother" |
2011 | The Closer | Kate Wycoff | Episode: "Forgive Us Our Trespasses" |
2011–2017 | Grimm | Marie Kessler | 3 episodes |
2012 | Made in Jersey | Lorraine Beckett | Episode: "Cacti" |
2012–2017 | Veep
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Barbara Hallowes | 3 episodes |
2012–2018 | Scandal
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Vice President Sally Langston | 42 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (2014) |
2013 | Revolution | Dr. Jane Warren | Episode: "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" |
2013 | Live from Lincoln Center | Mrs. Mullin | Episode: "The New York Philharmonic's Performance of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel" |
2014 | Rake | Holly Phillips | Episode: "Hey, Good Looking" |
2015 | Full Circle | Vera Quinn | 5 episodes |
2015 | Key & Peele | Hillary Clinton | Episode: "Y'all Ready for This?" |
2015 | Extant | Fiona Stanton | 6 episodes |
2016 | Elementary | Maureen Dannon | Episode: "Down Where the Dead Delight" |
2016–2018 | Madam Secretary | Maureen McCord-Ryan | 2 episodes |
2018 | This Is Us | Barbara | 2 episodes |
2018 | Modern Family | Iris Fennerman | Episode: "The Escape" |
2018 | Mr. Mercedes | Mrs. MacDonald | 3 episodes |
2018 | The Gifted | Dr. Madeline Risman-Garver | Episode: "the dreaM" |
2019, 2021 | Supergirl | Isabel Nal | 3 episodes |
2019 | NCIS: New Orleans | Angela Prescott | Episode: "A House Divided" |
2019 | Strange Angel | 4 episodes | |
2019 | Perfect Harmony | Julie | Episode: "Merry Jaxmas" |
2020 | Homeland | Doris Warner | Episode: "F**ker Shot Me" |
2020–2021 | Charmed | Elder Celeste | 6 episodes |
2020 | 13 Reasons Why | Doctor | Episodes: "Graduation |
2020–2021 | American Experience | Narrator | 4 episodes |
2021 | Prodigal Son | Sarah Windsor | Episode: "Bad Manners" |
2021 | The Mosquito Coast | Margot's Mom | Episode: "Light Out" |
2022 | Inventing Anna | Nora Radford | 3 episodes |
2022 | The Dropout | Rochelle Gibbons | 4 episodes |
2022 | Bosch: Legacy | Ida Porter | 5 episodes |
2022 | The First Lady | Hillary Clinton | Episode: "Rift" |
2022 | So Help Me Todd | Joan | Episode: "Let the Wright One In" |
2022 | Echo 3 | The Senator | 2 episodes |
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- ^ "Bailey Noble, who played Adilyn Bellefleur on "True Blood," toplining with "Pretty Little Liars" star Troian Bellisario. Kate Burton (Stay, Big Trouble in Little China) and Blake Robbins (Rubber) round out the cast of Martyrs". March 25, 2015.
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External links
- Kate Burton at IMDb
- Kate Burton at the Internet Broadway Database
- Kate Burton at the Internet Off-Broadway Database