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Kate Brooke, Lady Lovegrove is a British screenwriter.

Origins, education and early career

Brooke is the daughter of the late Timothy Sergison-Brooke and the Hon. Mary Anne Hare (b. 9 April 1936), eldest daughter of John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham. She was educated at Wycombe Abbey School and Christ Church, Oxford, where she read English. After Oxford, she studied at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris before setting up her own theatre group in England.[1]

While working in the theatre, she adapted a number of works for the stage,[2] including:

• Graham Greene’s The Tenth Man
• François Mauriac’s Thérèse Desqueyroux
• Guy de Maupassant’s Bel Ami
• Saki’s Beasts and Super-Beasts

Writing credits

Production	Notes	Broadcaster
Six Pairs of Pants	"Episode #1.1" (1995)	Channel 4
Family Affairs	12 episodes (1998–2000)	Channel 5
Protesting Too Much	6 episodes (co-written with Sally Phillips, 2000)	BBC Radio 4
Always and Everyone	"Episode #2.6" (2000)	ITV
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness	Television film (co-written with Terry Winsor, 2003)	ITV
The Forsyte Saga, Series II	Television miniseries (co-written with John Galsworthy and Phil Woods, 2003)	ITV
Secret Smile	Television film (2005)	ITV
Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback	Television film (2007)	ITV
Wired	Television miniseries (2008)	ITV
Breaking the Mould	Television film (2009)	BBC Four
Case Sensitive	"The Point of Rescue" (2011)	ITV
The Making of a Lady	Television film (2012)	ITV
The Ice Cream Girls	Television miniseries (2013)	ITV
Mr Selfridge	11 episodes (co-written with Andrew Davies, 2013–)	ITV
Bancroft	4 part Thriller (2017)	ITV
A Discovery of Witches	5 episodes (2018)	Sky One

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Work	Category	Result	Reference
2007	Edgar Allan Poe Awards	Secret Smile	Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay (shared with Nicci Gerrard)	Nominated

Personal life

Brooke is married to Sir Stephen Lovegrove, a senior civil servant and currently the UK's National Security Adviser. They have two daughters and live in London.

References

External links

• Kate Brooke at the British Film Institute
• Kate Brooke at IMDb

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