Occupation Actor Name Catherine Kinsella | Role Film actress | |
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Catherine Kinsella is a British actress who trained at East 15 Acting School.She received a Best Actress award at the Manchester Theatre Awards.
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Background
Kinsella played young Éponine in 1992 in the first off-West End production of Les Misérables at the Palace Theatre in Manchester then again in 1993 for final 6 weeks before the first ever UK tour began. She was chosen from over 600 auditioness . Philip Quast played Javert, Jeff Leyton played Jean Valjean.
Stage career
Kinsella has worked extensively in classical theatre. Her first role as an adult was in Northern Broadsides 2002 production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth directed by the companies Artistic Director Barrie Rutter OBE. This led to a long and successful working relationship with the company. Appearing in many of their productions including Ariel in The Tempest, Maria in The School for Scandal, an international tour of China again in The Tempest, Elsie Whitworth in The Game ( the 100th anniversary of the Harold Brighouse play ). She also played the lead as Charlotte Brontë in Blake Morrison's We Are Three Sisters, taken from the Anton Chekhov play Three Sisters and Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, The Times said "Catherine Kinsella’s flinty flirty Rosaline makes this a rom-com worth believing in." . She played Catherine in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge to great critical acclaim for director Mark Babych at Octagon Theatre, Bolton The Guardian wrote "As Eddie's gamine niece, Catherine Kinsella perfectly captures the confusion of a young woman whose sexuality has caught her unawares.". She went on to work with Babych in another Miller play, The Crucible as Abigail and Jessica in The Merchant of Venice. In 2013 she was directed by director Sir Jonathan Miller to stage a revival of the Githa Sowerby play, Rutherford and Son. The play was a huge critical success and saw Kinsella winning Best Actress in a Visiting Production at Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards against Michele Dotrice and Siân Phillips in the same category. The Evening Standard offered that her performance was " Superb", and that her character "combines emotional intelligence with good business sense just in the nick of time". This was her first win but forth nomination for Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards. She had previously received nominations as Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Jessica "The Merchant of Venice" 2008, Best Actress in a Supporting role for Brenda-Marie in "Martha Josie and the Chinese Elvis" 2009 and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Catherine "Memory of Water" in 2011. She return to work again to great success with Sir Jonathan Miller in 2015 in his "revelatory" production of King Lear in the role of Cordelia.
Television
Her television appearances have been mainly for the BBC in popular shows such as Holby City and Casualty. For other networks, Boy Meets Girl, The Royal and Waterloo Road.