Kate Vernon

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Kate Vernon

Katherine "Kate" Vernon (born 1961 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian actress .

Life

Kate Vernon is the daughter of John Vernon and Nancy West. It is usually stated that she was born in Canada and only moved to Hollywood, California as a child , but various sources also state that Hollywood was her place of birth.

After she originally wanted to be an architect, she decided against her father's advice to become an actor. After a few minor roles beginning with Chained Heat (1983), she played between 1984 and 1985 in 25 episodes of the Falcon Crest series as Lorraine Prescott . She played a supporting role in the comedy Pretty in Pink (1986) with Molly Ringwald . Due to the increased popularity, she got several bigger roles in film and television, including in Malcolm X (1992) by director Spike Lee with Denzel Washington and in Ein refined Coup ( Soft Deceit ) (1994) with Patrick Bergin . She also appeared in the film John Woo's Blackjack (1998) with Dolph Lundgren and in Wilde Tage (2003) with Peter Falk . Between 2004 and 2009, she appeared in all four seasons of the Battlestar Galactica series.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Kate Vernon  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Hanna Huge: Interview with Kate Vernon: I'm not afraid of anything. In: Serienjunkies.de . June 4, 2011, accessed July 2, 2011 .
  2. Entry at filmreference.com