Kate Mulvany

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
Geraldton, Western Australia
NationalityAustralian
EducationBachelor of Arts, Curtin University
OccupationActress, playwright, screenwriter
Years active1997–present
Spouse(s)
Hamish Michael
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(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.

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

Television

Awards and recognition

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

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