Kathryn Hunter

Kathryn Hunter

Infobox actor


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Kathryn Hunter (born Aikaterini Hadjipateras in 1956) is an award-winning English actress and theatre director.

She is currently touring internationally in the first English-language production of "Fragments" a collection of short plays by Samuel Beckett, directed by Peter Brook. In 2008 she was made an Artistic Associate at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Hunter was born in New York to Greek parents but brought up in the UK. She trained at RADA where she is now an associate, and regularly directs student productions. She now lives in London with her husband Marcello Magni.

She is well-known for her stage work and is particularly associated with physical theatre [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=940992004] and has worked with reknown companies in that field including Shared Experience and Complicite. She won an Olivier Award in 1990 for playing the millionairess in Friedrich Durrenmatt's "The Visit". Hunter was the first British actress to play "King Lear" professionally and has played a number of other male characters including in "The Bee", directed by Hideki Noda, which played at the Soho Theatre in June 2006.

Her screen work includes a supporting role in the TV series "Rome" as Cleopatra's companion, Charmian. Notable film work includes Mike Leigh's "All or Nothing" (2002) and Harry Potter's neighbour, Arabella Figg, in the fifth movie of the Harry Potter saga, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (2007) .

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