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 Swiss-born Welsh-American actress Kate Burton is the daughter of Welsh actors Richard Burton and Sybil Williams. She graduated Brown University (1979), majoring in Russian studies and European history. She served on the board of 'Production Workshop', the university's student-run theater group. She earned her master's at Yale Drama School (1983). She received an honorary doctorate from Brown University (2007). Her dedicated stage, film and television work earned a number of awards and nominations.
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Swiss-born Welsh-American actress Kate Burton is the daughter of Welsh actors Richard Burton and Sybil Williams. She graduated Brown University (1979), majoring in Russian studies and European history. She served on the board of 'Production Workshop', the university's student-run theater group. She earned her master's at Yale Drama School (1983). She received an honorary doctorate from Brown University (2007). Her dedicated stage, film and television work earned a number of awards and nominations.
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Daughter of Richard Burton and Sybil Williams.Co-starred with her father, Richard Burton in the critically-received CBS miniseries Ellis Island (1984). He died shortly thereafter.Earned a BA in Russian studies and European history from Brown University.Played the mother of Ellen Pompeo on TV show Grey's Anatomy (2005), although Kate was 12 years older than Ellen.Has retained her British citizenship, yet considers herself an American actress.Half-sister of Maria Burton, who was adopted by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.Highly respected and talented audio book reader. She is constantly represented among best-selling audio titles.At first intent on a diplomatic career, she majored in history and Russian studies at Brown University in Rhode Island, before being swayed by her acting heritage in her senior year. She went on to earn an MFA at the Yale School of Drama.Born in Switzerland, she was raised in Manhattan after her parents' famous divorce.Former stepdaughter of Elizabeth Taylor and Sally Burton.In 2002, she was nominated for two Tony Awards: as Best Actress (Play) for portraying the title character in a revival of Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler," and as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for a revival of "The Elephant Man". This made her one of only three actors (the others are Amanda Plummer and Dana Ivey) to be Tony-nominated for two acting awards in the same year.Met future husband Michael Ritchie while she was making her Broadway debut in "Present Laughter" in 1982. He was the stage manager.Son, Morgan Ritchie (b. 1988), and daughter, Charlotte Frances (b.1998), with Michael Ritchie.Playwright/actor Emlyn Williams was her godfather.Studied at Yale University School of Drama, where she was a classmate of Jane Kaczmarek.Friend of Jane Kaczmarek.Kate Burton made her Broadway debut in 1982 in a revival of No?l Coward's play Present Laughter; she played the young, naive ingenue character Daphne Stillington (who idolizes the main character, Garry Essendine, played in that production by George C. Scott). Thirty-five years later, Burton appeared in another revival of Private Lives, this time playing Liz Essendine, Garry's knowing and experienced estranged (and then reunited) wife. In the 2017 production, Kevin Kline played Garry.Her husband is a theatre director.She has an autistic sister, Jessica, and a half-sister, Amy Cristopher, from her mother's marriage to actor Jordan Christopher.Mother of Morgan Ritchie.On Broadway, in the hit show "Spring Awakening" playing all the adult female roles. She had worked on the musical before when it was in workshop. (January 2008)Husband, Michael Ritchie, is the director of Massachusetts' Williamstown Theatre Festival.Performing in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard in Boston's Huntington Theater. (January 2006)Nominated for the 2005 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Drama for "The Constant Wife".Step-daughter of actor Jordan Christopher. |
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Kate Burton |
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Actress (IMDB) |
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All World |
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| Height: |
5' 6?' (1.69 m) |
| Biography: |
Swiss-born Welsh-American actress Kate Burton is the daughter of Welsh actors Richard Burton and Sybil Williams. She graduated Brown University (1979), majoring in Russian studies and European history. She served on the board of \'Production Workshop |
| Trivia: |
Daughter of Richard Burton and Sybil Williams.Co-starred with her father, Richard Burton in the critically-received CBS miniseries Ellis Island (1984). He died shortly thereafter.Earned a BA in Russian studies and European history from Brown University.Played the mother of Ellen Pompeo on TV show Grey's Anatomy (2005), although Kate was 12 years older than Ellen.Has retained her British citizenship, yet considers herself an American actress.Half-sister of Maria Burton, who was adopted by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.Highly respected and talented audio book reader. She is constantly represented among best-selling audio titles.At first intent on a diplomatic career, she majored in history and Russian studies at Brown University in Rhode Island, before being swayed by her acting heritage in her senior year. She went on to earn an MFA at the Yale School of Drama.Born in Switzerland, she was raised in Manhattan after her parents' famous divorce.Former stepdaughter of Elizabeth Taylor and Sally Burton.In 2002, she was nominated for two Tony Awards: as Best Actress (Play) for portraying the title character in a revival of Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler," and as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for a revival of "The Elephant Man". This made her one of only three actors (the others are Amanda Plummer and Dana Ivey) to be Tony-nominated for two acting awards in the same year.Met future husband Michael Ritchie while she was making her Broadway debut in "Present Laughter" in 1982. He was the stage manager.Son, Morgan Ritchie (b. 1988), and daughter, Charlotte Frances (b.1998), with Michael Ritchie.Playwright/actor Emlyn Williams was her godfather.Studied at Yale University School of Drama, where she was a classmate of Jane Kaczmarek.Friend of Jane Kaczmarek.Kate Burton made her Broadway debut in 1982 in a revival of No?l Coward's play Present Laughter; she played the young, naive ingenue character Daphne Stillington (who idolizes the main character, Garry Essendine, played in that production by George C. Scott). Thirty-five years later, Burton appeared in another revival of Private Lives, this time playing Liz Essendine, Garry's knowing and experienced estranged (and then reunited) wife. In the 2017 production, Kevin Kline played Garry.Her husband is a theatre director.She has an autistic sister, Jessica, and a half-sister, Amy Cristopher, from her mother's marriage to actor Jordan Christopher.Mother of Morgan Ritchie.On Broadway, in the hit show "Spring Awakening" playing all the adult female roles. She had worked on the musical before when it was in workshop. (January 2008)Husband, Michael Ritchie, is the director of Massachusetts' Williamstown Theatre Festival.Performing in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard in Boston's Huntington Theater. (January 2006)Nominated for the 2005 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Drama for "The Constant Wife".Step-daughter of actor Jordan Christopher. |
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(Describing her acting roles) "I'm usually the sweet wife. Or the sweet dead wife."
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(Referring to her extended, rather bohemian family) "Basically, I'm part of this large, creative, mildly crazy, loosely connected loving family. But really, these days, who isn't?" |
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Actress |
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Is one of the 30 members of the Tony Administration Committee, who are the nominators for the Tony Awards.
Played "Sarah" in Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical, "Company", in the early 1970s.
(2001) Starring in Hedda Gabler on |
| Spouse: |
Michael Ritchie (June 30, 1985 - present) (2 children) |
| Parents: |
Richard Burton
Sybil Williams |
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