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Catherine McCormack
McCormack in Midnight Man 2008
Born	Catherine Jane McCormack^[1] (1972-04-03) 3 April 1972 (age 52) Epsom, Surrey, England^[2]
Education	Oxford School of Drama
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1994–present

Catherine Jane McCormack (born 3 April 1972)^[1]^[2] is an English actress. Her film appearances include Braveheart (1995), The Land Girls (1998), Dangerous Beauty (1998), Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), Spy Game (2001), and 28 Weeks Later (2007). Her theatre work includes National Theatre productions of All My Sons (2000) and Honour (2003).

Early life

McCormack was born in Epsom, Surrey, England. She is of part Irish ancestry as one of her grandfathers was Irish.^[3] Her mother died of lupus when McCormack was six years old and her steelworker father subsequently raised her and her brother Stephen.^[4] She was brought up as Roman Catholic^[5] and attended the Convent of Our Lady of Providence. She went on to study at the Oxford School of Drama.^[6]

Career

Film

McCormack's first important role was as the character Murron MacClannough in the multiple Academy Award-winning film Braveheart (1995). Her screen debut was as the lead in the Anna Campion-directed film Loaded (1994). She has subsequently stated that she had a "miserable time with the director (Anna Campion)... it was my first film job, I needed to be mollycoddled, I needed to be helped through it, and I wasn't. Mostly, it was a horrible experience."^[4]

After Braveheart, McCormack starred alongside Anna Friel and Rachel Weisz in David Leland's The Land Girls and had lead 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 that "I read very few scripts I'm passionate about... Maybe one in every twenty or thirty."^[7]

Theatre

McCormack has shown a preference in her career for the theatre,^[4] saying that "theatre really is an actor's medium: you're on stage with no director anymore, whereas in film very rarely do you get much rehearsal other than running through the scene very quickly. Then everyone comes in and shoots it."^[8] McCormack was one of the original 2006 London cast of Patrick Barlow's play of The 39 Steps.^[9] In 2008, she performed the role of Nora in A Doll's House,^[10] directed by Peter Hall at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and also the role of Isabel Archer in a stage adaptation of The Portrait of a Lady,^[11] both of which commenced their runs in July 2008, ending in August, before transferring to the Rose Theatre in Kingston later that year.

In 2009, she appeared in the British tour of Headlong's adaptation of Six Characters in Search of an Author. In 2012, she starred as Juana Inés de la Cruz in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Helen Edmundson's play The Heresy of Love.^[12]

Personal life

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

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1994	Loaded	Rose
1995	Braveheart	Murron MacClannough
1996	North Star	Sarah
1998	The Land Girls	Stella
	Dangerous Beauty	Veronica Franco
	Dancing at Lughnasa	Christina 'Chrissy' Mundy
1999	This Year's Love	Hannah
1999	The Debtors
2000	Shadow of the Vampire	Greta Schröder
	A Rumor of Angels	Mary Neubauer
	The Weight of Water	Jean Janes
	Born Romantic	Jocelyn
2001	The Tailor of Panama	Francesca Deane
2001	Spy Game	Elizabeth Hadley
2004	Strings	Zita (voice)
2005	A Sound of Thunder	Sonia Rand
2006	Renaissance	Bislane Tasuiev (voice)
2007	The Moon and the Stars	Kristina Baumgarten / Tosca
2007	28 Weeks Later	Alice
2013	The Fold	Rebecca Ashton
2014	Magic in the Moonlight	Olivia
2016	The Journey	Kate Elgar
2017	Promise at Dawn	Lesley Blanch
2019	The Song of Names	Helen
2019	Cordelia	Kate

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Wycliffe	Asenath Gardner	Episode: "The Scapegoat"
1997	Deacon Brodie	Annie Grant	TV film
1999	Love in the 21st Century	Fay	Episode: "Reproduction"
2001	Armadillo	Flavia	Main cast, miniseries
2003	Broken Morning	Kathy	TV film
2004	Gunpowder, Treason & Plot	Elizabeth I	TV film
2005	Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore	Kathleen Tynan	TV film
2006	Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes	Elizabeth David	TV film
2006	Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire	Poppaea Sabina	Episode: "Nero"
2008	Midnight Man	Alice Ross	Main cast, miniseries
2011	Lights Out	Theresa Leary	Main cast
2013	Lucan	Veronica	Main cast, miniseries
2015	Life in Squares	Virginia Woolf	Main cast, miniseries
2016	Sherlock	Lady Carmichael	Episode "The Abominable Bride"
2017	Genius	Marija Ružić–Marić	Recurring role (season 1)
2018	Women on the Verge	Claire	4 episodes
2019–2021	Temple	Beth Milton	Main cast
2022	Slow Horses	Alex Tropper	Recurring role (series 2)
2023	The Witcher	Anika	Episode: "Reunion"
TBA	Lockerbie: A Search for Truth †	Jane Swire	In production

Key
†	Denotes TV productions that have not yet been released

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue or Company
1999	Anna Weiss	Anna Weiss	Whitehall Theatre
2000	All My Sons	Ann	National Theatre
2001	A Lie of the Mind	Beth	Donmar Warehouse
	Kiss Me Like You Mean It	Ruth	Soho Theatre
	White Horses	Paula	Gate Theatre, Dublin
2002	Free	Sophie	National Theatre
2002	Dinner	Sian	National Theatre
2003	Honour	Claudia	National Theatre
2003	Under the Curse	Iphigenia	Gate Theatre, London
2004	Vermillion Dream	Miriam	Salisbury Playhouse
2006	The 39 Steps	Various	Tricycle Theatre
2007	The Lady from Dubuque	Jo	Theatre Royal Haymarket
2008	A Doll's House	Nora	Theatre Royal Haymarket
2008	The Portrait of a Lady	Isabel Archer	Theatre Royal Haymarket
2009	Six Characters in Search of an Author
2012	The Heresy of Love	Juana Inés de la Cruz	Royal Shakespeare Company

References

^ ^a ^b Ms Catherine Jane McCormack company-director-check.co.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
^ ^a ^b "20 Questions With ... Catherine McCormack" whatsonstage.com (8 February 2012). Retrieved 1 April 2012.
^ "Catherine McCormack — Life after Braveheart". Macbraveheart.co.uk. 29 May 2001. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c Duerden, Nick. Catherine McCormack: The play's the thing, The Independent, 10 August 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
^ "Catherine McCormack - Actress in Braveheart - Esquire". Archived from the original on 1 September 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2009., Esquire, 30 November 2002. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
^ "Catherine McCormack Biography — Yahoo! Movies". Movies.yahoo.com. 1 January 1972. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
^ Blackwelder, Rob. Unrecognized 'Beauty': The surprising off-screen Catherine McCormack Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, SPLICEDwire, 6 February 1998. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
^ Wolf, Matt. Catherine McCormack, Broadway.com, 16 August 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
^ Cavendish, Dominic. Irreverent romp down the nostalgia track, The Telegraph, 18 August 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
^ Theatre Royal – A Doll's House Archived 19 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ Theatre Royal – The Portrait of a Lady Archived 19 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ "The Heresy of Love - By Helen Edmundson - Royal Shakespeare Company". rsc.org.uk.
^ "My Perfect Weekend: Catherine McCormack". The Daily Telegraph. 28 September 2009. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023.

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