Kate Gilmore

Kate Gilmore is a stage and television actress from Artane, Dublin best known for playing Karen O'Neill in RTÉ One's Fair City. In 2015, she won an Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2016 she starred with Sam Keeley in The Nation Holds Its Breath, a short film directed by Kev Cahill.

In 2021, she wrote and starred in Someday Sadie a short film about her relative a up-and-coming singer whose career was cut short by an unplanned pregnancy.

In 2024 Gilmore played the Actress in a Gate Theatre-Sydney Theatre Company co-production of Thomas Bernhard's The President starring Hugo Weaving, in both Dublin, and Sydney.

She is an only child.