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Kitty Aldridge (born 9 May 1962) is a British actress and writer.

Kitty Aldridge
Born	(1962-05-09) 9 May 1962 (age 60) Bahrain
Occupation	Novelist, actress
Nationality	British
Spouse	Mark Knopfler ​ (m. 1997)​
Children	2

Life and career

Aldridge was born in Bahrain. After training as an actress at the Drama Centre London, Aldridge went on to work in film, theatre and television as an actress for 15 years.[1] In her thirties she began to write fiction.[2] Her first novel, Pop,[3][4] published in 2001, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002[5] and shortlisted for the Pendleton May First Novel Award 2002. Her second novel, Cryers Hill,[6] was published in March 2007.

Aldridge's short story, Arrivederci Les, won the Bridport Short Story Prize 2011.[7]

Her third novel, A Trick I Learned from Dead Men,[8] was published in 2012. It was longlisted for the 2013 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction[9] and The Guardian newspaper's Not The Booker Prize 2012.[10]

Aldridge’s new novel, The Wisdom of Bones,[11] was published in May 2019.

Aldridge married the former guitarist frontman of Dire Straits Mark Knopfler on Valentine's Day 1997 in Barbados.[12] They have two daughters.[13]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	A Room with a View	New Lucy
1986	Gathering Stones	Anna	Short
1987	Maurice	Kitty Hall
1987	An African Dream	Katherine Hastings
1988	American Roulette	Kate Webber
1988	Tyger Tyger Burning Bright	Tasmin
1989	Slipstream	Belitski
1998	Divorcing Jack	Agnes Brinn

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Porterhouse Blue	Serena	"1.4"
1988	The Management	Kitty	"The Wedding"
1989	The Paradise Club	DI Rosy Campbell	Main role (series 1)
1990	A Little Piece of Sunshine	Sabrina	TV film
1990	The World of Eddie Weary	Barbara Daniels	TV film
1992	Downtown Lagos	Alice Hughes	TV miniseries
1993	Heartbeat	Sarah Collins	"Baby Blues"
1993	To Play the King	Sarah Harding	TV miniseries
1996	Cadfael	Judith Perle	"The Rose Rent"
1997	The Ice House	Anne Cattrell	TV miniseries

Bibliography

• Pop, Cape (Vintage); (2001) ISBN 0099428326
• Cryers Hill, Cape (Vintage); (1 March 2007) ISBN 0099506181
• Arrivederci Les; (2011)
• A Trick I Learned from Dead Men, Cape (Vintage); (5 July 2012) ISBN 0224096435
• The Wisdom of Bones, Corsair (Little, Brown); (May 2, 2019) ISBN 9781472154392

Awards

• Bridport Short Story Prize 2011[7]

References

External links

• Kitty Aldridge at IMDb
• Works by or about Kitty Aldridge in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Filmography at the New York Times
• Aitken Alexander Associates Limited
• Random House Group, UK
• Kitty Aldridge, Interview, The Guardian

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