Georgina Cates

Born: 1975-01-14

Georgina Cates is an English film and television actress and professional photographer based in the US. Born in Colchester in 1975 as Clare Woodgate, she entered the acting profession under that name and first came to fame at the age of sixteen in the role of Jenny Porter in the BBC sitcom 2 Point 4 Children. After two series, she moved on to appear in guest roles in long-running, popular drama series such as The Bill and Casualty. In 1995, she auditioned for the role of Stella in Mike Nicholls' adaptation of the Beryl Bainbridge novel, An Awfully Big Adventure. When her audition proved unsuccessful, she went away and adopted the name Georgina Cates, pretended to be a seventeen year old novice performer from Liverpool and auditioned again. The result was that she won the role and starred opposite Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman and was nominated for Actress of the Year by the London Critics Circle Film Awards. Now known as Georgina Cates, she went on to star in Frankie Starlight, Stiff Upper Lips, Illuminata and Clay Pigeons. She married Skeet Ulrich in 1997, with whom she had twins. The couple divorced in 2005 and Cates returned to acting two years later with an acclaimed, award winning performance in indie film Sinner. Since then, Cates has appeared on TV in The Closer and in the 2013 Johnny Knoxville film, Bad Grandpa. In recent years she has concentrated on her photography.


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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

as Kimmie Zisman
Released: 2013-10-22

86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8...

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Clay Pigeons

as Amanda
Released: 1998-09-25

Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl kill himself because of the...

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An Awfully Big Adventure

as Stella
Released: 1995-07-21

Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby...

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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5

as Kimmie
Released: 2014-06-03

Bad Grandpa .5 gives you a whole new perspective on the world of Irving Zisman with bonus scenes...

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Everlasting

as Elaine Insane
Released: 2016-02-13

"Everlasting" is an award-winning thriller about a High School student who travels from Colorado...

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Illuminata

as Simone
Released: 1998-05-21

It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory...

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Stiff Upper Lips

as Emily
Released: 1998-06-12

Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory...

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Big City Blues

as Angela
Released: 1997-01-01

Two hit men, a call girl, and a gay couple become entangled in a web of violence. In the course...

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Loving

as Edith
Released: 1996-10-19

An upper class English family owns a villa in the Irish countryside. When the man of the house...

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The Treat

as Mimi
Released: 1998-09-10

The lives of four strange prostitutes will change forever when they go to the Mayor's birthday...

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Au Pair

as Susan (as Clare Woodgate)
Released: 1994-01-01

A coming of age comedy about Susan, a young Welsh woman who leaves her quiet country for Germany...

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A Soldier's Sweetheart

as Marianne Bell
Released: 1998-06-09

An Army medic brings his girlfriend to stay with him at an out of the way Vietnam outpost in...

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Save Me from the Sound of the Siren

as Madeleine
Released: 2016-03-18

A Neo-Noir Thriller, where two woman come face to face with their fates.

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The Closer

as Kim Sherman
First aired: 2005-06-13

Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit...

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Casualty

as Emily Russell (as Clare Woodgate)
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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2Point4 Children

as Jenny Porter (as Clare Woodgate)
First aired: 1991-09-03

They're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens....

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2Point4 Children

as Jenny Porter
First aired: 1991-09-03

They're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens....

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