Katharine Blake

Katharine Blake, an actress with British and Canadian citizenship, was born in Johannesburg and built a long career across stage, television and film. In the early 1940s she acted with the Amersham Playhouse repertory company under the name Katherine Inglestone. She later appeared as Iras in Antony and Cleopatra at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1946, a production that transferred to the West End with Edith Evans as Cleopatra. In 1948 she played Catherine Earnshaw in a BBC television adaptation of Wuthering Heights, and in 1949 she had a screen role in Trottie True. From 1952 to 1959 her work took her to Canada and the United States, she became a Canadian citizen, and she returned to England in 1959. She won a British Academy Television Award for best actress in 1964. Her later television work included Public Eye, Armchair Theatre and Within These Walls. She also wrote scripts occasionally. She died in 1991.