Kate Reid

Life and career

Reid was born in London, England on 4 November 1930, the daughter of Canadian parents, Helen Isabel (née Moore) and Walter Clarke Reid, who was a former Bengal Lancer in the Indian army and a retired colonel. When Reid was a young age, Reid and her family immigrated to Oakville, Ontario.

Reid attended Havergal College in Toronto and university in London, and then studied acting at a performance art school in Canada. She had a long and varied career on film, television and stage in both Canada and the United States. Her stage roles included Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew, Henny in Bosoms and Neglect, and Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

She played the scheming/domineering mother of Natalie Wood in 1966's This Property is Condemned, although she was only seven years older than the actress, and her other film appearances included roles in The Andromeda Strain (1971), A Delicate Balance (1973), Equus (1977), Death Ship (1980) and Atlantic City (1980). She also played Aunt Lil on Dallas in the early 1980s, as well as appearing in episodes of Scarecrow and Mrs. King and Columbo.

Both of Reid's marriages, to Michael Sadlier and Austin Willis, ended in divorce. She had two children: son Reid Willis and daughter Robin Willis. She had two granddaughters: Jessica and Mackenzie Willis.

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Death

Kate Reid died of cancer in Stratford, Ontario, aged 62, in 1993.

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