Kate Hardie

Kate Hardie is an English actress, born in London, who had no formal training and won a role in the 1983 film Runners when she was fourteen. She went on to build a screen career in British films, among them Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa (1986), Cry Freedom (1987), The Krays (1990), Jack and Sarah (1995), Croupier (1998) and I Am Dina (2002). On television she appeared in The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Thin Air, The Men's Room, Safe, for which she was nominated for a Royal Television Society award for best TV performer, and Beyond Reason, and she played Karen O'Malley, a student nurse, in the BBC drama series Casualty. She later earned a screen writing degree from the National Film and Television School in 2006, wrote plays for Channel 4's Coming Up, and wrote and directed the short film Shoot Me. Retired from acting, she published her first novel in 2023.