Kate Cook
Biography
Kate Cook is a London based actor descended from the famous Beerbohm family who's members include the actor manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his half brother Max Beerbohm, caricaturist and writer. She is therefore mostly British with a hint of German and Lithuanian. She grew up in the countryside with her parents and two sisters, where she became a dab hand at horse riding and lawn mowing before moving to London to attend drama school. After her training at Arts Ed and a short spell in the acting profession she stepped aside to bring up her two children before returning via an MA in Text and Performance at Kings College/RADA. Here she discovered a passion for writing, a skill which saw her trawling the London comedy scene as a stand up comic before penning her own one-woman show, Invisible Woman, which she performed to great acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival, Brighton, London and France. She then got the role of Mrs More in the cult horror hit Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist. More recently she has appeared for the BBC in Years and Years, Call the Midwife and Eastenders and can be seen in Seasons 5 and 6 of the Netflix series The Crown in which she plays Susie Orbach, Princess Diana's therapist.
Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles
Drama Series - 2016, 16 episodes • as Susie Orbach
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • as Matron
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Dame Veronica Rivington
Covert CIA agent Martian is ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind unexpectedly reappears, their romance reignites, pitting his career, his real identity and his mission against his heart while hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.
Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes • as Alena Mihalik
Follows the elite agents of the FBI's International Fly Team headquartered in Budapest as they travel the world with the mission of protecting Americans wherever they may be.
Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • as Mrs. More
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as Stirling's Mother
The dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.
Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Finance Expert
As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives are explored as we find out if this ordinary family could change the world.
Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • as Lorraine
Suzie Pickles, a star on the wane, has her whole life upended when her phone is hacked and a photo of her emerges in an extremely compromising position.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Meredith
On the brink of his wedding, Ethan returns to his birth mother’s home, only to face an uninvited guest whose ties to his past refuse to stay buried.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • as Miss Jenkins ("Ghost of a Chance")
A compendium of eight ghost stories, all set within an abandoned hotel in Suffolk.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Cork
While doing their homework on a winter afternoon, schoolmates Charlie and Matt share a kiss. But Matt snaps and storms off. Later at a catechism lesson, Matt accuses Charlie of it not being consensual and an argument erupts.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Zara Aronowicz
The Aronowicz family seek revenge for a hate crime with the help of a Russian immigrant.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Jodie
A divorce brings about the end of the world for Sandra.