Kate Mulvany

Kate Mulvany is an Australian actor, playwright and screenwriter who grew up in Geraldton, Western Australia and works across theater, television and film. She has played lead roles with Australian theater companies, among them Cassius, Lady Macbeth and Richard III for Bell Shakespeare, and won the Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play for Richard 3 in 2017. She received the Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award in 2004 for The Seed. Her stage adaptations include Craig Silvey's Jasper Jones, Ruth Park's The Harp in the South trilogy for Sydney Theatre Company in 2018, and a version of Schiller's Mary Stuart in 2019. On screen she appeared in The Final Winter (2007), Griff the Invisible (2010) and The Great Gatsby (2013), played Sister Harriet in the series Hunters, and narrated the ABC series Our Vietnam War in 2023.