Kate Elliott

Kate Elliott is a New Zealand actress who has worked mainly in television and film. Born in Auckland, she took the role of an Amazon named Yakut in several episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess between 1998 and 2000, and later played Lily in Cleopatra 2525. Her film credits include The Locals (2003), the vampire film 30 Days of Night (2007), and Flying Lotus's Ash (2025). On television she portrayed the violent inmate Spike in the fifth series of Wentworth, the literary agent Heidi in ABC's Austin, and Detective Jess Savage in the New Zealand mini-series The Gulf. She has also played the New Zealand figures Katherine Mansfield in Bliss and Jean Batten in Jean, appeared in The Cult, and acted in The Insider's Guide To Love, Fracture, and Toy Love. At the New Zealand film and television awards she has won three Best Actress awards and received three further nominations.