Kathleen Gati

Kathleen Gati is a Canadian actress known for her portrayal of Liesl Obrecht on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. She moved to New York at 20 and began in off-Broadway shows and on the ABC soap All My Children during 1989 and 1990. A lead film part drew her to Hungary, where she stayed five years, and in 1993 she won a Best Supporting Actress award from the Hungarian Film Critics Awards. Her films include Igby Goes Down (2002) and The Future (2011), and she has guest starred on The Practice, NYPD Blue, ER, Cold Case, Desperate Housewives, NCIS, The Mentalist and Arrow. On 24 she played Russian First Lady Anya Suvarov from 2006 to 2007. In 2012 she joined General Hospital as the villainous Dr. Liesl Obrecht, and she later appeared on Being Mary Jane and the web series Winterthorne, earning Daytime Emmy and Indie Series Award nominations in 2016.