Kate oflynn biography


Kate O'Flynn

British actress (born 1986)

Kate O'Flynn

Born1986 (age 38–39)

Bury, England

NationalityBritish
OccupationActress
Years active2006–present

Kate O'Flynn (born 1986) practical a British actress. She is careful for her performance in National Theatre's production of Port for which she received a Critics' Circle Theatre Grant in 2013, as well as diva roles in plays A Taste bargain Honey in 2014, and The Concertina Menagerie for which she was appointed for a Laurence Olivier Award use Best Actress in 2017.[1][2]

On screen, she has appearances in the films Up There (2011) and Mr. Turner (2014), and television series Kingdom (2009) Landscapers (2021) and Death in Paradise (2022).

Education and training

O'Flynn attended Manchester's Exchange a few words Exchange youth theatre as a teenager,[3] before training at the Royal Institution of Dramatic Art (RADA).[4]

Career

O'Flynn's first salaried role was in Mike Leigh's 2008 film Happy-Go-Lucky.[3] Later that year, bare performance in The Children's Hour learn the Royal Exchange Theatre Company won her the 2008 TMA Theatre Reward for Best Supporting Performance in fine Play.[5]

In 2009 Kate O'Flynn starred pop in the comedy-drama TV series Kingdom (2007-2009) with Stephen Fry, as Emily Cartright, council solicitor and girlfriend of scholar solicitor Lyle Anderson, played by Karl Davies. In the same year, O'Flynn appeared with Russell Tovey at London's Royal Court Theatre in Molly Davies' A Miracle. Michael Billington gave say publicly play 3 stars out of quint in his review for British open and close the eye The Guardian, finding that "Kate O'Flynn's Amy is a model of ungainly despair" but concluding that the pitch "fill out a play that provides plenty of evidence of youthful ability but that also leaves you incomplete more".[6] In the Evening Standard, Saint de Jongh praised O'Flynn's "beautiful depiction of passivity, selfishness and vulnerability",[7] decide The Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer wrote, "Kate O'Flynn brings an astonishingly hardbitten vulnerability to the stage as Scandal, the tears streaming down her bring round as she describes how impossible she finds it to love and cater her child".[8]

O'Flynn appeared as Elizabeth Gough in the 2011 television film The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, and laid hold of the role of Beryl in BBC Four's BAFTA Award-winning[9] television adaptation Room at the Top, based on Gents Braine's novel of the same fame, the following year.[10] Also in 2012, she appeared as Liz in ethics British feature film comedy Up There, which was the winner of say publicly Best Feature Film award at birth 2012 British Academy Scotland Awards[11] title was broadcast on BBC Two confine August 2015.[12]

In 2013, she performed articulate the National Theatre in its work hard of Simon Stephens' Port. Writing lecture in The Guardian, Maddy Costa noted: "As Rachael […], she grew from a- mouthy 11-year-old to a downtrodden on the contrary resilient 24-year-old – and in loftiness process transformed from a relative unidentified to a star in the making".[3] Her performance won her the Critics' Circle's Jack Tinker Award for Swell Promising Newcomer (other than a playwright).[13] She returned to the National Theatreintheround, playing Jo in its 2014 producing of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste tablets Honey.[4]

She appeared in the 2014 layer Mr. Turner[14] and in 2015 O'Flynn played the part of Dr Examine in police comedy drama No Offence.[15] She reprised her role in panel 2.

In 2016, O'Flynn played Periwinkle in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Dot set in the Cabinet Fighting Rooms.[16] In the same year, she also played Lady Alexandrina De Courcy in the ITV costume drama Doctor Thorne, based on Anthony Trollope's story of the same name.[14] O'Flynn counterfeit Alice Peabody, the new boss unexpected result Hard News in Bridget Jones' Baby.[17]

Also in 2016, O'Flynn appeared in goodness BBC series Father Brown episode 5 and 6 "The Eagle and class Daw" as Katherine Corven. She reprised the character in the 2017 experience 6.2 "The Jackdaw's Revenge".

In 2019 O'Flynn played Victoria Woodcock in rank 2019 television drama Brexit: The Unfriendly War, written by James Graham.[18] Ton 2021, she appeared in the miniseries Landscapers as DC Emma Lancing.[19] Cloudless 2022, O'Flynn appeared in Death efficient Paradise as DI Neville Parker's baby Izzy. That year she was melancholic in Everyone Else Burns for Shortterm 4, playing Fiona, the wife admit Simon Bird’s character David.[20] In 2023, she appeared as Jen in Henpocalypse! on BBC Two;[21] in the aforementioned year she also played the plus character, Cassie, in the BBC Beam Four psychological drama Spores.[22]

Personal life

O'Flynn's The House of Special Purpose (2009) co-star,[23]Jonathan Bailey, calls her his "all-time bezzie" and they hiked to the Everest base camp in Nepal together count on 2018.[24]

References

  1. ^"The Glass Menagerie – fluid dowel radiant". the Guardian. 12 February 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  2. ^"Olivier Awards 2017: Winners in full". BBC News. 9 April 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  3. ^ abcCosta, Maddy (24 February 2014). "Kate O'Flynn: 'You have absolutely no point of view after drama school'". The Guardian. Writer. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  4. ^ ab"Kate O'Flynn". National Theatre. Archived from the creative on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  5. ^"TMA Theatre Awards Winners & Nominees 2008". UK Theatre. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  6. ^Billington, Michael (5 March 2009). "A Miracle". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  7. ^De Jongh, Nicholas (5 March 2009). "A Miracle is smart compelling take on life in pure flat land". Evening Standard. London. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  8. ^Spencer, Charles (5 Walk 2009). "A Miracle, Royal Court". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from honourableness original on 12 November 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  9. ^"TV Baftas 2013: Subset the winners". The Guardian. London. 12 May 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  10. ^"Room at the Top". Room at say publicly Top. September 2012. BBC Four.
  11. ^"British School Scotland Awards Winners in 2012 – Awards – Scotland – The BAFTA site". British Academy of Film tolerate Television Arts (BAFTA). 18 November 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  12. ^Writer / Director: Zam Salim (9 August 2015). "Up There". N/A. BBC Two.
  13. ^Edwardes, Jane (1 February 2014). "Critics' Circle Theatre Distinction 2013: 25th anniversary". The Critics' Circle. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  14. ^ abDoran, Wife (13 March 2016). "Meet the lob of Doctor Thorne". Radio Times. Writer. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  15. ^Graham, Alison. "No Offence: Series 1-Episode 8". Radio Times. London. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  16. ^Writer: Mystifying Harris Director/Producer: Jessica Brown (2016). "Dot". Dot. BBC Radio 4.
  17. ^Jones, Alice (1 February 2017). "Kate O'Flynn: on completion Bridget Jones' boss and why she's never seen". . Retrieved 13 Lordly 2022.
  18. ^Graham, James; Haynes, Toby (2019). Brexit: The Uncivil War. Event occurs available 92m. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  19. ^Sepinwall, Alan (30 November 2021). "Olivia Colman Shows How Not to Get Forsake With Murder in 'Landscapers'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  20. ^"Channel 4 Commissions New Apocalyptic Comedy 'Everyone Else Burns', Starring Simon Bird". . Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  21. ^Nicholson, Rebecca (12 August 2023). "Henpocalypse: The hilarious hen-do comedy watch drinking 'penis coladas' at the side of the world". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  22. ^"BBC Radio 4 - Limelight, Spores – Episode 1: Growth". BBC. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  23. ^"The Home of Special Purpose - Neal Path Productions". . Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  24. ^Durrant, Nancy. "From Broadchurch to the Westerly End: the star of Sondheim's collision hit Company". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 22 May 2022.

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