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Kate Mulvany OAM (born 24 February 1977[1]) is an Australian actress, playwright and screenwriter.[2] She works in theatre, television and film, with roles in Hunters (2020), The Great Gatsby (2013), Griff the Invisible (2010) and The Final Winter (2007). She has played lead roles with Australian theatre companies as well as appearing on television and in film.[3] In 2004 she won the Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award for The Seed.[4] In 2017, she won the Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play for her role in Richard 3.[5]

Kate Mulvany OAM
Born	(1977-02-24) 24 February 1977 (age 45) Geraldton, Western Australia
Nationality	Australian
Education	Bachelor of Arts, Curtin University
Occupation	Actress, playwright, screenwriter
Years active	1997–present
Spouse	Hamish Michael ​ ​ (m. 2015)​

Career

Mulvany has played Cassius,[6] Lady Macbeth, and was lauded for her performance as Richard III in which she revealed her real-life spinal disability.[7][8] Her adaptation of Craig Silvey’s novel Jasper Jones has been performed in Perth by Barking Gecko Theatre Company,[9] in Sydney by Belvoir St Theatre,[10] and in Melbourne by the Melbourne Theatre Company.[11] In 2015 it was shortlisted for the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.[12]

In 2018, Mulvany adapted Ruth Park's The Harp in the South trilogy as a two-part play for Sydney Theatre Company.[13] In 2019, she followed this with an adaptation of the Schiller play Mary Stuart - the first to be undertaken by a woman[14] - again for Sydney Theatre Company.[15] One review said, "Mulvany’s bold adaptation recentres the queens, shearing away nearly every male soliloquy and interaction held exclusively between men, of which there are an abundance in Schiller’s text",[16] while others called it "dazzlingly different",[14] and a "feminist"[17] reimagining of a classic.[18]

In April 2019, Deadline announced that Mulvany had been cast as a series regular in Amazon Prime Video's new 10-episode[19] Nazi-hunting series Hunters, created by David Weil and produced by Jordan Peele.[20] She will play one of the Hunters, Sister Harriet,[20]

Early life

Kate Mulvany's father, Danny, was a Vietnam Veteran.[21] Her mother, Glenys,[22] is a schoolteacher.[23] She has a sister, Tegan, who is an actor and an improvisor.[24] In 1997, Mulvany received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Curtin University, Perth.^{[citation needed]}

Mulvany was diagnosed with a Wilms's tumor (renal cancer) at age two and spent much of her childhood in the hospital. Her cancer has been linked to her father's exposure to Agent Orange during his service in the Vietnam War.[25]

Personal life

Mulvany was partner to actor Mark Priestley.[26] In 2015 she wed fellow actor Hamish Michael in New York.[22][27] She is an ambassador for MiVAC (Mines, Victims and Clearance), a landmine advocacy and support group.[28]

Filmography

Film

• Elvis (2022) as Marion Keisker
• The Merger (2018) as Angie Barlow
• The Little Death (2014) as Evie
• The Turning (2013) as Gail Lang
• The Great Gatsby (2013) as Mrs McKee
• Griff the Invisible (2010) as Cecilia

Television

• The Clearing (TBC) TV series; In production
• The Twelve (2022) as Kate Lawson
• Hunters (2020) as Sister Harriet
• Lambs of God (2019) as Frankie
• Fighting Season (2018) as Captain Kim Nordenfelt
• Secret City (2016) as Ronnie
• Winter (2015) as Lauren McIntyre

Awards and recognition

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As actor

Year	Organisation	Award	Nominated Work	Result
2019	Helpmann Awards	Best Female Actor in a Play	Every Brilliant Thing	Won
2018	Green Room Awards	Best Female Performer	Richard III	Won
2018	AACTA Awards	Best Lead Actress in a Feature Film	The Merger	Nominated
2017	Helpmann Awards	Best Female Actor in a Play	Richard III	Won
2017	Sydney Theatre Awards	Best Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Mainstage Production	Richard III	Won
2015	AACTA Awards	Best Lead Actress in a Feature Film	The Little Death	Nominated
2014	Sydney Theatre Awards	Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Mainstage Production	Tartuffe	Won
2011	Sydney Theatre Awards	Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Mainstage Production	Julius Caesar	Nominated
2007	Sydney Theatre Awards	Best Actress in a Lead Role	The Seed	Nominated
1998	Green Room Awards	Best Female Performer	Killer Joe	Nominated

As writer

Year	Organisation	Award	Nominated Work	Result
2018	Sydney Theatre Awards	Best Mainstage Production	The Harp in the South	Won
2018	Sydney Theatre Awards	Best New Australian Work	The Harp in the South	Won
2018	AWGIE Awards	Best Theatre: Stage	The Rasputin Affair	Nominated
2017	Helpmann Awards	Best Play	Jasper Jones	Nominated
2017	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Writing in a Preschool Animated Program	Beat Bugs	Won
2016	Helpmann Awards	Best New Australian Work	Jasper Jones	Won
2015-2016	Intersticia Foundation	Bell Shakespeare Writers’ Fellowship		Won
2014	Sydney Theatre Company	Patrick White Playwrights Fellowship		Won
2012	Sydney Theatre Awards	Best Mainstage Production	Medea	Won
2012	Sydney Theatre Awards	Best New Australian Work	Medea	Won
2007	Sydney Theatre Awards	Best Independent Production	The Seed	Won
2007	Sydney Theatre Awards	Best New Australian Work	The Seed	Nominated
2004	Belvoir	Phillip Parsons Young Playwrights Award	The Seed	Won
2004	Sydney Theatre Company	Patrick White Playwrights Award	The Danger Age	Nominated
2002	Naked Theatre Company	Write Now! Playwrighting Competition	Blood & Bone	Won

Other

In 2017, Mulvany received an honorary doctorate from Curtin University for her services to the arts in Australia[29] and she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2020 Australia Day Honours for "service to the performing arts".[30] She also received the 2020 Mona Brand Award, worth $35,000 which is "presented to a woman who has a body of outstanding work which displays broad array and which has been widely performed or screened to critical acclaim".[31]

Year	Organisation	Award	Result
2017	The Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award	Individual Award	Won

References

External links

• Kate Mulvany at IMDb
• Kate Mulvany at Rotten Tomatoes

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