KateHarcourt
- Actor
Veteran actor Kate Harcourt was named a Dame Companion of the NZ Order of Merit in 1996, for her contribution to theatre. Her long performing career also encompasses many roles on screen (Plain Tastes, The Dig, Apron Strings), often playing maternal figures. In her ninth decade she won Best Actress at Rhode Island International Film Festival as the plucky rest home rebel in short film Pacific Dreams.
Screenography
Biography
Kate Harcourt was named a Dame Companion of the NZ Order of Merit in 1996, for her contribution to theatre. Alongside theatre and radio, Harcourt's acting career includes many screen roles as well.
Born in 1927, Harcourt was raised in Amberley, North Canterbury, "lucky enough to be a country child". She was the youngest child of a farmer and a "highly intelligent" woman from rural Australia. Harcourt inherited her mother's love of music: after a short stint as a kindergarten teacher, she got a diploma in singing from Melbourne University Conservatorium of Music, then trained at a London opera school.
Awards
2011 Rhode Island International Film Festival (United States)
Best Actress: for Pacific Dreams
1996 Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (DNZM)
For her contribution to theatre
“Acting is my life and I so enjoy the work. I’ve found the more you do the more you can do and as I get older I’ve found it easier to learn the lines.”