Kate Hardie

Kate Hardie

Born: April 26, 1969
Kate Hardie was born on April 26, 1969 in the UK as Kate Louise Oddie, the daughter of comedian and wildlife presenter Bill Oddie. She is an actress and writer, known for Mona Lisa (1986), The Krays (1990) and Cry Freedom (1987). She was previously married to fashion photographer Rankin and they have a child together. In 2023, Hardie published her first novel, This Is Where We Live, and announced her retirement from acting.

Movies for Kate Hardie...

Anni Albers: A Life in Thread
Title: Anni Albers: A Life in Thread
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 21, 2019
Type: Movie
How Walter Gropius's decision to relegate Anni Albers to the weaving class of the Bauhaus created the greatest textiles artist the world has ever known.
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Brakes
Title: Brakes
Character: Susan
Released: November 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Brakes is a dark, improv-based ensemble comedy set in London. Divided into two parts, it tells the story of each couple's relationship in reverse, starting with the break-ups.
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Title: National Treasure
Character: Rebecca Thornton
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: TV
Paul Finchley is a bona fide "national treasure", one half of a popular, long-running comedy double act. The famous comedian's world is thrown into chaos when he is accused of historic sexual abuse.
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Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
Title: Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: May 12, 2016
Type: Movie
In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle to get her voice heard. Featuring many of her close collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Irvine Welsh, Kate Hardie and Mark Cousins, this documentary is the first to examine Bird’s legacy, and to place her where she belongs – among the most important British film, TV and theatre directors of her era.
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Murdered By My Boyfriend
Title: Murdered By My Boyfriend
Character: Mum
Released: June 23, 2014
Type: Movie
Drama telling the true story of what happens to a teenage girl when she falls in love with the wrong man. The everyday story of young love turns dark and sinister when the handsome and charming stranger seeks to dominate every aspect of the young woman's life. A tale of contemporary Britain that every young person should watch.
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The Spirit of '45
Title: The Spirit of '45
Character: Reader (voice)
Released: March 15, 2013
Type: Movie
How the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.
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The Boarding School Bomber
Title: The Boarding School Bomber
Character: Teacher
Released: November 21, 2011
Type: Movie
Compelling drama-documentary which tells the story of how, three years after the 7/7 attacks on London, a busy shopping centre in Bristol was the intended target of a devastating terrorist attack.
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Title: Criminal Justice
Released: June 30, 2008
Type: TV
Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of the accused.
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Title: Criminal Justice
Character: Flo Sexton
Released: June 30, 2008
Type: TV
Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of the accused.
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Rehab
Title: Rehab
Character: Suzie
Released: March 26, 2003
Type: Movie
TV drama - following Adam Bishop, a petty criminal, as he leaves prison for a drugs rehabilitation programme in order to turn his life around.
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I Am Dina
Title: I Am Dina
Character: Stine
Released: March 8, 2002
Type: Movie
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.
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The Announcement
Title: The Announcement
Character: Helen
Released: September 15, 2000
Type: Movie
A film about friendship and familiarity masking major secrets. When protagonists Beth and Ross gather all of their best friends together for an unruly drink and drug-fuelled party, the event is like many such evenings. That is, until Beth and Ross make an announcement. They tell those assembled that they have secretly married. The impact is not as simple as they had expected. We then track the events of the evening as the news affects each person in turn. Instead of the absolute approval Ross and Beth had hoped for, the news throws a harsh spotlight on everyone's relationship and notions of marriage. The film explores the confused attitudes of a generation whose model of love and romance is complex and demanding. The evening degenerates into a rash of revelations and discoveries about all of the friends, but most dramatically it unravels Ross and Beth's relationship in a way neither of them could have foreseen. This is no fairytale
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Heart
Title: Heart
Character: Tess Ellis
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
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Love Story
Title: Love Story
Character: Chrisy
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A short film by Nick Love.
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Croupier
Title: Croupier
Character: Bella
Released: June 25, 1998
Type: Movie
Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino which takes its toll on his relationships and the novel he is writing.
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Jack & Sarah
Title: Jack & Sarah
Character: Pamela
Released: June 2, 1995
Type: Movie
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1.
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Reckoning
Title: Reckoning
Character: the woman
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A short film about suicide.
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Beyond Reason
Title: Beyond Reason
Character: Pvt. Susan Christie
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Drama based on a real-life story of a love affair between a married army captain and a young female soldier. Susan Christie and Duncan McAllister have an affair, but Duncan ends the relationship when he's posted to Germany. Three days later, Susan and Duncan's wife, Penny, go for a walk in the woods in Northern Ireland. Fifteen minutes later, Penny is dead and Susan claims they were attacked by an unknown man.
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Open Fire
Title: Open Fire
Character: Sue Stephens
Released: November 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arresting a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile transvestite David Martin is released once again from prison - he's provocative and aggressive and, when he's caught again during a burglary, he shoots one of the police officers, leading to a nation wide manhunt. Innocent filmmaker Steven Waldorf is subsequently shot as a suspect by Finch, provoking a national scandal that rocks the police force.
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Safe
Title: Safe
Character: Kaz
Released: October 13, 1993
Type: Movie
Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.
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Under the Sun
Title: Under the Sun
Character: Ellie
Released: November 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Kate Hardie plays a shy 19-year-old bookworm setting out on a world trip, only to be stranded at Málaga after her companion goes off with a local lothario. When her belongings are stolen, Ellie starts learning independence.
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A Small Dance
Title: A Small Dance
Character: Donna Matkin
Released: November 16, 1991
Type: Movie
In the emptiness of the Lincolnshire fens, rural teenager Donna feels trapped in a joyless life with a domineering father and a dull job at the food factory. She grasps at the illusion of affection offered by a passing stranger - and must then cope in lonely terror with pregnancy.
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The Krays
Title: The Krays
Character: Frances
Released: April 27, 1990
Type: Movie
The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.
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Melancholia
Title: Melancholia
Character: Rachel Lanham Franck
Released: May 19, 1989
Type: Movie
Art critic Keller, a German ex-pat living in London, is confronted by his radical 1960s past when he's asked to assassinate a Chilean murderer who is on a visit to London.
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Tree of Hands
Title: Tree of Hands
Character: Carol
Released: March 7, 1989
Type: Movie
A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed visit with her own remedies.
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Thin Air
Title: Thin Air
Character: Rachel Hamilton
Released: April 8, 1988
Type: Movie
Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks.
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Cry Freedom
Title: Cry Freedom
Character: Jane Woods
Released: November 6, 1987
Type: Movie
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Karen O'Malley
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Mona Lisa
Title: Mona Lisa
Character: Cathy
Released: June 13, 1986
Type: Movie
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
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Revolution
Title: Revolution
Character: Carrie
Released: December 25, 1985
Type: Movie
New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.
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Wings of Death
Title: Wings of Death
Character: Looey
Released: October 3, 1985
Type: Movie
In the revolting and decaying Byzantium Hotel, young heroin addict Alex, played by Dexter Fletcher, relives an idyllic - and possibly apocryphal - past before slipping into a much more terrifying world. A sinister little girl wanders the corridors, cutting open her doll "to see what's inside" while winos and junkies prowl as flesh-eating zombies...
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Title: The Ray Bradbury Theater
Character: Miss Treadwell
Released: May 21, 1985
Type: TV
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
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Number One
Title: Number One
Character: Sue
Released: March 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.
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Stars of the Roller State Disco
Title: Stars of the Roller State Disco
Character: Margaret
Released: December 4, 1984
Type: Movie
Video-shot on studio sets, Stars of the Roller State Disco borders on science fiction of the dystopian variety. Unemployed youngsters spend their days at the roller disco of the title, circling round and round, before being called to take up low-paid jobs as they become available. They leave the building in a wash of light, though we do not go through that door with them. For others it's a subsistence existence of vending machine food, video games, with sex and drug freely available as distractions. (Television @ The Digital Fix)
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Runners
Title: Runners
Character: Rachel Lindsay
Released: August 18, 1983
Type: Movie
When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.