Kate Rutter

Kate Rutter is an English actress, best known for I, Daniel Blake,^[1][2][3] Peterloo and River City.^[4][5]

Kate Rutter
Born	Leeds, England
Alma mater	Rose Bruford College
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1990–present
Notable work	I, Daniel Blake His Dark Materials Peterloo Oranges and Sunshine The Arbor Four Weddings and a Funeral River City Coronation Street

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Director	Notes
1997	Casualty	Jean	Various
	The Full Monty	Clerk	Peter Cattaneo
1998	Cold Feet	Sheila	Various
1999	Hearts and Minds	Sister Mary	Charles McDougall
2000	Queer as Folk	Mrs. Perry	Various
	Fat Friends	Helen	Kay Mellor
2002–2009	Silent Witness	Mrs. Brook	Various
2002–2009	Holby City	Carole	Various
2005	Pierrepoint	Eileen	Adrian Shergold
2010	Doctors	Linda	Various
	The Arbor	Mother	Clio Barnard
	Oranges and Sunshine	Vera	Jim Loach
2012–2013	River City[6][7]	Miriam	Various	Series regular, 44 episodes
2013	Scott and Bailey	Joe	Various
	The Railway Man	Jean	Jonathan Teplitzky
2016	DCI Banks	Maureen	Various
	I, Daniel Blake	Ann[8]	Ken Loach
2017	Cotton Wool	Marion	Nicholas Connor
2018	Peterloo	Reformer	Mike Leigh
2019	Coronation Street	D.S. Beckett	Various
	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Margot	Various
	His Dark Materials	Sister Betty	Various
2020	Question Time	Herself	Rob Hopkin
2024	Truelove	Barbara	Chloë Wicks and Carl Tibbetts	3 episodes[9]

Personal life

Kate Rutter was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, she trained as an actress at Rose Bruford College in Sidcup, Southeast London and began her career in 1977 working on various productions for Yorkshire Playhouse under director Phil Young. Her first television appearance was in 1994 in series Earthfasts by William Mayne. Since then Kate has appeared as a series regular in both ITV's Coronation Street and BBC's River City. In 2020, Kate Rutter's appearance in the audience of the BBC's Question Time sparked controversy over whether the actress was hired by the BBC.^{[10][11][12][13][14]}

Awards and nominations

Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
Los Angeles Film Awards	Best Ensemble	Cotton Wool	Won
New York Film Awards			Won

References

1. "Kate Rutter Interview I, Daniel Blake Premiere - video dailymotion". Dailymotion.
2. "'This film is a message of hope'". Morning Star. 23 May 2016.
3. "Kate Rutter". BFI. Archived from the original on 23 July 2017.
4. "Kate Rutter". IMDb.
5. "Kate Rutter".
6. "Kate Rutter : Actress - Films, episodes and roles on digiguide.tv". digiguide.tv.
7. "BBC Scotland - River City - Dr Miriam Stubbs". BBC.
8. "BBC Two - I, Daniel Blake". BBC.
9. Simone, Carlo (2 January 2024). "Channel 4 Truelove: Full cast and when it is on TV". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
10. "Question Time viewers complain of 'bias' after Corrie actress spotted in audience". Entertainment Daily UK. 23 November 2019.
11. "Coronation Street actress 'spotted' in audience of Question Time". Evening Standard. 22 November 2019.
12. "Coronation Street star makes appearance on Question Time". Digital Spy. 23 November 2019.
13. Read, Jonathon (23 November 2019). "Lib Dems angered by BBC decision to put fewer supporters in Question Time audience". The New European.
14. Gibbons, Lottie (22 November 2019). "Corrie fans spot familiar face in Question Time audience". liverpoolecho.