Katrin Cartlidge

Katrin Cartlidge, an English actress, made her screen debut playing Lucy Collins in the Channel 4 soap Brookside across 1982 and 1983. Born in London, she took her first leading film role as Sophie in Mike Leigh's Naked (1993). Her performance in Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain (1994), and later in No Man's Land (2001), brought her recognition across Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkans. In 1997 she received the Evening Standard Film Award as Best Actress for Career Girls (1997), a Mike Leigh film in which she played Hannah at 20 and at 30. She also appeared as a madam in a Paris brothel in Leigh's Topsy Turvy (1999). Later film credits included From Hell (2001) and Breaking the Waves (1996). She died in 2002.