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KateElliott

  • Actor
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Aged 14, Kate Elliott debuted as a troubled teen in 1997 TV play House of Sticks. Five years later she was starring as a philanderer in Harry Sinclair comedy Toy Love. Her role as a solo mum in Fracture won awards at festivals in Oporto and St Tropez. TV's The Insiders Guide to Love garnered her two further gongs. In 2011 she starred as Katherine Mansfield in tele-movie Bliss, then grabbed a shotgun for movie romp Fresh Meat. In 2017 she won her third television award, after starring as legendary aviator Jean Batten in TV movie Jean. She went on to star in TV's The Gulf, as an obsessed cop who has just endured a car accident. 

Screenography

Ash
2025 As: Clarke Film
Penumbral
2019 As: Kari Short film
The Gulf
2019 - 2021 As: Detective Senior Sergeant Jessica Savage Series
2018 Associate Producer Web

Awards

2017 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Actress: Jean

2017 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards (The Moas)
Nominated for Best Short Film Actress: for Not Like Her

“Nicole is highly impulsive and someone who lives for the moment, and is always seeking new experiences. So she gets to have lots of fun and push conventional boundaries all the time.”

Kate Elliott on her role in TV series The Insiders Guide to Love