Kate Lynch
Biography
Kate Lynch is a Canadian actor, playwright, and director who won the Genie Award for Best Actress in 1980 for her performance in Meatballs (1979), where she played the romantic foil to Bill Murray. She was nominated for the same prize again in 1988 for Taking Care. Her film work also includes Soup for One, Def-Con 4, God Bless the Child, Lie with Me, and The Guardian, and on television she appeared in Custard Pie and Anne of Avonlea and guested on series such as Adderly, Danger Bay, Seeing Things, and Degrassi: The Next Generation. She has written plays including Newcomer and The Road to Hell, and directed productions for the Shaw and Stratford Festivals, among them Shakespeare's Henry V and Beckett's Waiting for Godot. She has taught at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University.
67years old
Turns 68 on June 29in 231 days
- Born Canada
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 40 years1979 to 2019
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Behind the award
In 1980 Lynch won the Genie Award for Best Actress for Meatballs. In her acceptance speech, she said she believed she won because she was a Canadian actor in a popular film, not for her performance.
Behind the award
Lynch earned another Genie nomination in 1988 for Taking Care. She told the press that this nomination, even without a win, mattered more to her than her Meatballs win, since Canadian film quality had improved by then.
Behind the camera
As a director, Lynch has staged plays for Theatre Passe Muraille, the Blyth Festival, the Stratford Festival and the Shaw Festival. Her work there includes Shakespeare's Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pericles and Cymbeline.
Kate Lynch movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!1989 Drama, Music, Thrilleras Lindsay Caputo
IMDb rating 6.33.6K votes
Worked with
Kate Lynch shares three films with Maury Chaykin, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Michael Paré's page
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Michael Ironside's page
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All films by Kevin Sullivan
Richard CiupkaDirector, 1 film, 1983
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