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Catherine Walker (actor)

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Catherine Walker
Born1975 (age 48–49)
NationalityIrish
OccupationActress

Catherine Walker (born 1975) is an Irish actress. She is notable for British and Irish television appearances including The Clinic (2003–2009), Northanger Abbey and Waking the Dead (2007), Bitter Sweet (2008), Lewis (2009), The Silence (2010), Strike Back (2013), Critical (2015), A Dark Song (2016)[1] and The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw (2020).[2]

Career

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Walker portrayed Madame de Maintenon in series two and three of the TV series Versailles. She also appeared as Alice Brooks in series five of the BBC drama Shetland. In 2020, she appeared in three episodes in the Netflix series Cursed as the recurring character, Lenore, the mother to Nimue from the legends of King Arthur. She also starred in The Deceived as Roisin Mulvery. She had a minor role in the Ridley Scott directed House of Gucci, playing Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue.

Walker won the Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Actress twice, for What Happened Bridgie Cleary by Tom MacIntyre at the Peacock Theatre and for The Talk of the Town at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin.[3] The Talk of the Town was written by Irish novelist Emma Donoghue, whose best-selling novel Room was subsequently filmed by Lenny Abrahamson.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2003 Conspiracy of Silence Sinead
2010 Leap Year Kaleigh
2013 Dark Touch Maud
2014 Patrick's Day Karen Prescott
2016 A Dark Song Sophia
2018 The Delinquent Season Yvonne
2018 We Ourselves Eimear
2018 Cellar Door Bly
2019 Rose Plays Julie Teres
2020 The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw Agatha Earnshaw
2021 House of Gucci Anna Wintour
2022 My Sailor, My Love Grace
2023 Napoleon Marie Antoinette

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2005 Holby City Jodie Maxwell 5 episodes
2007 Waking the Dead Lisa Tobin 2 episodes
2007–2009 The Clinic Alice O'Brien 19 episodes
2007 Northanger Abbey Eleanor Tilney Television film
2009 Lewis Fiona McKendrick Episode: "The Point of Vanishing"
2010 The Silence Sarah Casey Episode #1.4
2011 Ferocious Planet Dr. Karen Fast Television film
2013 Life of Crime Carol Deans Episode: "2013"
2013 Strike Back Mairead McKenna 3 episodes
2015 Critical Fiona Lomas 9 episodes
2017 Acceptable Risk Deirdre Kilbride 4 episodes
2017–2018 Versailles Madame de Maintenon 19 episodes
2018 Rig 45 Andrea 6 episodes
2018 Finding Joy Audrey 5 episodes
2019 Rebellion Constance Butler 2 episodes
2019 Resistance 5 episodes
2019 Shetland Alice Brooks 6 episodes
2020 Cursed Lenore 3 episodes
2020 The Deceived Roisin Mulvery 4 episodes

References

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  1. ^ Brady, Tara (5 April 2017). "A Dark Song review: a nifty, novel Irish horror". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 21 April 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. ^ Felperin, Leslie (11 November 2020). "Blood Harvest review – sects and gore aplenty in pagan folk horror". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  3. ^ "The latest events in Dublin". Entertainment.ie. Archived from the original on 10 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
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