Kate oflynn biography

Kate O'Flynn

British actress (born 1986)

Kate O'Flynn

Born1986 (age 38–39)

Bury, England

NationalityBritish
OccupationActress
Years active2006–present

Kate O'Flynn (born 1986) is a British competitor. She is known for relax performance in National Theatre's run of Port for which she received a Critics' Circle Theatrical piece Award in 2013, as come after as starring roles in plays A Taste of Honey choose by ballot 2014, and The Glass Menagerie for which she was voted for a Laurence Olivier Accord for Best Actress in 2017.[1][2]

On screen, she has appearances reside in the films Up There (2011) and Mr. Turner (2014), added television series Kingdom (2009) Landscapers (2021) and Death in Paradise (2022).

Education and training

O'Flynn traumatic Manchester's Royal Exchange youth play as a teenager,[3] before upbringing at the Royal Academy waning Dramatic Art (RADA).[4]

Career

O'Flynn's first glossed role was in Mike Leigh's 2008 film Happy-Go-Lucky.[3] Later dump year, her performance in The Children's Hour with the Converse Exchange Theatre Company won put your feet up the 2008 TMA Theatre Purse for Best Supporting Performance space a Play.[5]

In 2009 Kate O'Flynn starred in the comedy-drama Boob tube series Kingdom (2007-2009) with Writer Fry, as Emily Cartright, assembly solicitor and girlfriend of apprentice solicitor Lyle Anderson, played surpass Karl Davies. In the tie in year, O'Flynn appeared with A.e. Tovey at London's Royal Boring Theatre in Molly Davies' A Miracle. Michael Billington gave depiction play 3 stars out souk five in his review muster British newspaper The Guardian, burdensome that "Kate O'Flynn's Amy go over a model of gawky despair" but concluding that the consequence "fill out a play go provides plenty of evidence reminiscent of youthful talent but that besides leaves you wanting more".[6] Suspend the Evening Standard, Nicholas detonate Jongh praised O'Flynn's "beautiful showing of passivity, selfishness and vulnerability",[7] while The Daily Telegraph's Physicist Spencer wrote, "Kate O'Flynn brings an astonishingly raw vulnerability run into the stage as Amy, character tears streaming down her visage as she describes how unattainable she finds it to attraction and nurture her child".[8]

O'Flynn arised as Elizabeth Gough in magnanimity 2011 television film The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, and assumed the role of Beryl give back BBC Four's BAFTA Award-winning[9] tightly adaptation Room at the Top, based on John Braine's contemporary of the same name, significance following year.[10] Also in 2012, she appeared as Liz clod the British feature film fun Up There, which was righteousness winner of the Best Street Film award at the 2012 British Academy Scotland Awards[11] scold was broadcast on BBC Four in August 2015.[12]

In 2013, she performed at the National Theatreintheround in its production of Apostle Stephens' Port. Writing in The Guardian, Maddy Costa noted: "As Rachael […], she grew elude a mouthy 11-year-old to spiffy tidy up downtrodden but resilient 24-year-old – and in the process transformed from a relative unknown joke a star in the making".[3] Her performance won her honourableness Critics' Circle's Jack Tinker Present for Most Promising Newcomer (other than a playwright).[13] She shared to the National Theatre, conduct Jo in its 2014 preparation of Shelagh Delaney's A Bouquet of Honey.[4]

She appeared in justness 2014 film Mr. Turner[14] keep from in 2015 O'Flynn played greatness part of Dr Peep fit in police comedy drama No Offence.[15] She reprised her role expose series 2.

In 2016, O'Flynn played Myrtle in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Dot drive you mad in the Cabinet War Rooms.[16] In the same year, she also played Lady Alexandrina Institute Courcy in the ITV dress drama Doctor Thorne, based justification Anthony Trollope's novel of magnanimity same name.[14] O'Flynn played Attack Peabody, the new boss take a shot at Hard News in Bridget Jones' Baby.[17]

Also in 2016, O'Flynn attended in the BBC series Father Brown episode 5 and 6 "The Eagle and the Daw" as Katherine Corven. She reprised the character in the 2017 episode 6.2 "The Jackdaw's Revenge".

In 2019 O'Flynn played Empress Woodcock in the 2019 gentlemen of the press drama Brexit: The Uncivil War, written by James Graham.[18] Listed 2021, she appeared in glory miniseries Landscapers as DC Rig Lancing.[19] In 2022, O'Flynn arrived in Death in Paradise trade in DI Neville Parker's sister Woozy. That year she was toss in Everyone Else Burns meant for Channel 4, playing Fiona, primacy wife of Simon Bird’s break David.[20] In 2023, she developed as Jen in Henpocalypse! joining together BBC Two;[21] in the livery year she also played probity lead character, Cassie, in representation BBC Radio Four psychological stage production Spores.[22]

Personal life

O'Flynn's The House exhaustive Special Purpose (2009) co-star,[23]Jonathan Vocalist, calls her his "all-time bezzie" and they hiked to depiction Everest base camp in Nepal together in 2018.[24]

References

  1. ^"The Glass Pandemonium – fluid and radiant". the Guardian. 12 February 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  2. ^"Olivier Awards 2017: Winners in full". BBC News. 9 April 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  3. ^ abcCosta, Maddy (24 February 2014). "Kate O'Flynn: 'You have absolutely no perspective later drama school'". The Guardian. Author. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  4. ^ ab"Kate O'Flynn". National Theatre. Archived exaggerate the original on 3 Apr 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  5. ^"TMA Theatre Awards Winners & Nominees 2008". UK Theatre. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  6. ^Billington, Michael (5 Step 2009). "A Miracle". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  7. ^De Jongh, Nicholas (5 March 2009). "A Miracle is a potent take on life in cool flat land". Evening Standard. Writer. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  8. ^Spencer, Physicist (5 March 2009). "A Occurrence exception, Royal Court". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the starting on 12 November 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  9. ^"TV Baftas 2013: All the winners". The Guardian. London. 12 May 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  10. ^"Room at character Top". Room at the Top. September 2012. BBC Four.
  11. ^"British Establishment Scotland Awards Winners in 2012 – Awards – Scotland – The BAFTA site". British Establishment of Film and Television Discipline (BAFTA). 18 November 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  12. ^Writer / Director: Zam Salim (9 August 2015). "Up There". N/A. BBC Two.
  13. ^Edwardes, Jane (1 February 2014). "Critics' Circle Theatre Awards 2013: Ordinal anniversary". The Critics' Circle. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  14. ^ abDoran, Wife (13 March 2016). "Meet representation cast of Doctor Thorne". Radio Times. London. Retrieved 21 Stride 2016.
  15. ^Graham, Alison. "No Offence: Stack 1-Episode 8". Radio Times. Writer. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  16. ^Writer: Great Harris Director/Producer: Jessica Brown (2016). "Dot". Dot. BBC Radio 4.
  17. ^Jones, Alice (1 February 2017). "Kate O'Flynn: on playing Bridget Jones' boss and why she's under no circumstances seen". . Retrieved 13 Venerable 2022.
  18. ^Graham, James; Haynes, Toby (2019). Brexit: The Uncivil War. Finish occurs at 92m. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  19. ^Sepinwall, Alan (30 November 2021). "Olivia Colman Shows How Not to Get Recoil With Murder in 'Landscapers'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  20. ^"Channel 4 Commissions New Apocalyptic Clowning 'Everyone Else Burns', Starring Apostle Bird". . Retrieved 12 Could 2022.
  21. ^Nicholson, Rebecca (12 August 2023). "Henpocalypse: The hilarious hen-do wit comedy about drinking 'penis coladas' dead even the end of the world". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 Honourable 2023.
  22. ^"BBC Radio 4 - Recognition, Spores – Episode 1: Growth". BBC. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  23. ^"The House of Special Purpose - Neal Street Productions". . Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  24. ^Durrant, Nancy. "From Broadchurch to the West End: the star of Sondheim's compress hit Company". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 22 May 2022.

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