Kate Fitzpatrick

Kate Fitzpatrick is an Australian television, film, and theatre actress.

Early life Fitzpatrick was born in Nedlands WA . The oldest of 5 children to an acknowledged exploration geologist father, and a celebrated artist/writer mother. She started school in Perth aged 4. When her father finished University they moved to Adelaide and she went to St Aloysius College, the same school her mother and grandmother had attended. She also studied ballet at Joanne Priest’s School. Her Adelaide grandmother had been an opera singer very briefly, and loved the ballet. Her grandfather, a doctor, was a cricket and movie fanatic who had permanent seats for every orchestral concert performed in Adelaide. From the age of 10 she was his theatre/cricket companion. At 14 she was chosen by the great painterJeffrey Smart (as Phidias in the ABC’s Argonauts) to be one of a group of students granted a travelling art scholarship to Japan. The ABC made a documentary about the trip.

Aged 15 her father was so annoyed with her exam results he sent her to be IQ tested for 4 days of the holidays. The psychologists suggested she do medicine and become a psychiatrist. At 18 she auditioned for NIDA and was accepted. She moved to Sydney, graduated and two years later returned to do the first third year course. She later converted her Diploma into an Arts Degree, and served two terms on the NIDA Board.

Career Fitzpatrick's stage roles include The Lady of the Camellias, Hamlet, Celluloid Heroes, The Ride Across Lake Constance, Shadows of Blood, Rooted, Kennedy's Children. With the Old Tote Theatre Company she acted in The Legend of King O'Malley, The Season at Sarsaparilla, In 2017, she appeared in Cabaret as Fraülein Schneider. She most recently toured Australia in Gas Light. The Office Picnic (1972), Always Greener and All Saints. Nine's tactical move, in placing a female in a cricket commentator role, was not successful and Fitzpatrick didn't return for the following season.

Fitzpatrick has also performed numerous voiceover roles, including television commercials for brands such as Aldi, Moderna, Uber Reserve and Mazda.

Fitzpatrick is a published author, essayist, and humourist whose work has appeared in numerous major newspapers and journals over the last 30 years, including a column in The Sydney Morning Herald in the 1980s.

She has had three books published, including "Name Dropping" (2004) and "Air Mail" (2005). She was a political speech writer during the 1990s, 1970 The Legend of King O'Malley Jane St Theatre, Sydney with Old Tote Theatre Company

Hamlet on Ice Hamlet Nimrod, Sydney The Recruiting Officer Russell St Theatre, Melbourne with MTC

Little Murders Old Tote Theatre, Sydney Shadows of Blood

Rooted 1973 The Threepenny Opera Jenny Sydney Opera House with Old Tote Theatre Company 1977 Big Toys Mag

The Misanthrope Sydney Opera House with Old Tote Theatre Bedroom Farce Susannah Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney with AETT, Sydney Visions Madame Lynch Paris Theatre, Sydney 1979 The Lady of the Camellias Marguerite Gautier, the courtesan Sydney Opera House with STC Macbeth STCSA 1981 Celluloid Heroes Maggie Murnane Theatre Royal Sydney 1983–1984 Insignificance Marilyn Monroe Playbox Theatre, Melbourne & interstate tour

Unsuitable for Adults Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne, NIDA Studio Theatre, Sydney Scapin Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne, NIDA Studio Theatre, Sydney, Hoyts Prince Theatre, Hobart 1985 A Spring Song Margaret Dennison NIDA Studio Theatre, Sydney, Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne 1991 Don Juan Don Juan Seymour Centre, Sydney 2003 The Fat Boy Hope Playbox, Melbourne for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2004 Julia 3 Julia Playbox, Melbourne 2014 Cruise Control Silky Ensemble Theatre, Sydney 2017 Cabaret Fraülein Schneider Melbourne Athenaeum with Hayes Theatre Company 2024 Gaslight Elizabeth Australian national tour with Queensland Theatre 2004 "Name Dropping: an Incomplete Memoir" Pymble, NSW: HarperCollins 0-7322-7468-0 2005 "Air Mail: Three Women Letters from Five Continents" John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd 1740311272