Kate Hardie

{{Short description|English actress (born 1968)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}} {{Use British English|date=October 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Kate Hardie | image = | caption = | birth_name = Kate Louise Oddie | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1968|04|26|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=239039816:4280&d=bmd_1653949805 | title=FreeBMD Entry Info }}</ref> | birth_place = London, England | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = | spouse = {{marriage|John Rankin Waddell<br>|1995|1998|end=div}} | children = 1 | parents = Bill Oddie<br>Jean Hart | website = }} '''Kate Hardie''' (born '''Kate Louise Oddie'''; 26 April 1968) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles in ''The Krays'', “Open Fire 1998” (film) ''Mona Lisa'' and the 2016 Channel 4 original series ''National Treasure''. Hardie's stage name is derived from those of both her parents: Jean Hart and Bill Oddie.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362175/bio |title=Kate Hardie |website=IMDb |accessdate=31 January 2009 }}</ref>

==Career== With no formal training, she auditioned for her first role, in the 1983 film ''Runners'' (written by Stephen Poliakoff and directed by Charles Sturridge), at the age of 14, telling her parents she had done so only when she had the part. She went on to appear in numerous films, including ''Revolution'' (1985), Neil Jordan's ''Mona Lisa'' (1986), ''Cry Freedom'' (1987), ''Tree of Hands'' (1989), ''The Krays'' (1990), ''Jack and Sarah'' (1995), ''Croupier'' (1998) and ''I Am Dina'' (2002).<ref name="SunMir">{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19990523/ai_n14488946/ |title=The Interview: I learnt a lot from mum and dad's break-up |work=Sunday Mirror |date=23 May 1999 |author=Waterman, Ivan |accessdate=21 September 2009 }}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

On television her roles include the episode "The Man Upstairs" (1988) of ''The Ray Bradbury Theatre'', ''Thin Air'', ''The Men's Room, Safe'' in which she was nominated for the Royal Television Society Best TV performer,{{cn|date=June 2021}} and ''Beyond Reason''. She spent five months in Hollywood before returning to the UK to play the student nurse Karen O'Malley in the BBC drama series ''Casualty''. In 1998, she starred in ''Croupier''.<ref name="SunMir"/>

In 2006, she graduated in screen writing at the National Film and Television School.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nfts.co.uk/index.php?module=Film&action=Graduates&commit=1&ma_dip_course_id=All&year=2006 |title=National Film and Television School: Latest Graduates |access-date=6 January 2010 |archive-date=27 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727050000/http://www.nfts.co.uk/index.php?module=Film&action=Graduates&commit=1&ma_dip_course_id=All&year=2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She wrote the short film ''King of London'' during her time there.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}} She subsequently wrote two plays in Channel 4's ''Coming Up'' series, ''Imprints'' (2007) and ''Little Bill Um'' (2008), the latter also being her directorial debut.

In 2009, she appeared in the BBC drama ''Criminal Justice''.

In 2011, she wrote and directed a short film called ''Shoot Me'' starring Claire Skinner and Paul Andrew Williams, and produced by Rankin.

==Personal life== Hardie left school and home in Hampstead, north London. She later lived with the actor Dorian Healy for six years. She met the portrait and fashion photographer Rankin (John Rankin Waddell) on a photo shoot, and married him in 1995. After their child was born, she moved in with a fellow actor, David Thewlis, and divorced Rankin in 1998.<ref name="SunMir"/> Her relationship with Thewlis subsequently ended.

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0362175|name=Kate Hardie}} *[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Interview%3A+I+learnt+a+lot+from+mum+and+dad's+break-up%3B+ACTRESS...-a060171082 Interview]

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