Kate Harcourt

Kate Harcourt was born on Jun 16, 1927 in New Zeland. Kate Harcourt's big-screen debut came with Beyond Reasonable Doubt directed by John Laing in 1980. Kate Harcourt is known for Lucy Lewis Can't Lose directed by Paul Yates, Thomasin McKenzie stars as Lucy Lewis and Celia Macdonald as Ruby. The most recent award Kate Harcourt achieved is Rhode Island International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Kate Harcourt plays is The Changeover which will be released on Feb 22, 2019.

Dame Catherine Winifred Harcourt DNZM, known professionally as Kate Harcourt, over her long career had worked in comedy as well as drama in theatre, film, TV and radio. Harcourt was born and grew up on a sheep station in the rural area of Amberley, New Zealand. Her mother was Australian, Winifred Harriet (Austin) and her father was Gordon Fulton. From age nine she attended boarding school, first at Amberley House and then at Woodford House (Hawke's Bay).Music was important to Harcourt in her early years as it was to her mother too. She went to Christchurch to train as a kindergarten teacher partly so she could continue with her singing and piano. She also attended the Joan Cross Opera School in London.Harcourt is the mother of actress Miranda Harcourt and former Fair Go television presenter Gordon Harcourt, and grandmother of actress Thomasin McKenzie. She played a part in the movie adaptation of The Changeover. Harcourt met her husband Peter Harcourt (1923-1995) at Wellington Repertory Theatre. He was from the family that founded Harcourts International real estate. Peter Harcourt died on 6 March 1995 of cancer, two years after being appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order in the 1993 New Year Honours for service to the community as an actor, broadcaster and presenter for 54 years since 1941. The Nga Whakarakei O Whataitai / Wellington Theatre Awards annually has an award called The Peter Harcourt Outstanding New Playwright.