Katherine Pearce

Katherine Anne Pearce (born August 1990) is an English actress, known for her work in television and film, as well as on stage. Her television roles include Lolly in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and Amy Spratt in the BBC drama series Waterloo Road. Her stage credits include Woyzeck, A Streetcar Named Desire and King John, The Whip and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Life and career Katherine Anne Pearce was born in August 1990 in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside. She had appeared in productions of Cats and Chicago as a teenager as part of her local dramatic society, NADOS.

She trained at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, graduating in 2012. Her first credited role was in the BBC Radio 4 drama The Righteous Sisters as Ismay Brown. In 2013, She subsequently went on to make her stage debut in Port at the Royal National Theatre by Simon Stephens. She also appeared in Our Pals at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, before being chosen to be part of the groundbreaking Secret Theatre collective at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. The collective created several shows including adaptations (Woyzeck, A Streetcar Named Desire), staged new writing (Chamber Piece, Glitterland, A Stab In The Dark), as well as devising the critically acclaimed Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts. She also played Freya in the podcast series The Confessions of Dorian Gray.

In 2016, Pearce appeared as Daisy in Young Hyacinth, a one-off special set prior to the events of the 1990s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. She also appeared as Gertie Coomer in the play Husbands and Sons which toured the Royal National Theatre and Royal Exchange, Manchester. In 2018, she portrayed Charlene in an episode of the ITV drama Vera and appeared as Sonia in the comedy series Girlfriends. She was also part of the 2018 Paines Plough Roundabout Season, starring in three new plays: Sticks and Stones by Vinay Patel, How to Spot an Alien by Georgia Christou and Island Town by Simon Longman, for which she won The Stage Edinburgh Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018. She was also the voice of Fabia in the audio drama Cicero.

In 2019, Pearce joined the cast of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as Lolly, a school friend of Kate Connor's (Faye Brookes). Her character becomes involved in the planning of Kate's wedding to Rana Habeeb (Bhavna Limbachia) and damages the latter's wedding dress, which results in Rana being inside in a fictional factory at the time of the roof collapse, ultimately causing her death. She also provided the voice of Alice Pritchard in the audio drama The War Master. That same year, Pearce appeared as Cardinal Pandulph in King John and Juliet Gilkes-Romero's play The Whip as Horatia Poskitt at the Royal Shakespeare Company Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. The run was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2022, she appeared in the BBC drama series Rules of the Game as Carys Jenkins. In 2023, Pearce joined the cast of the revival series of the BBC school drama Waterloo Road as Amy Spratt, an early career teacher in English and drama. She appeared until the fifteenth series when her character decides to resign. Following her exit from the show in 2024, Pearce played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Barbican Theatre.

As of May 2025, she is due to play Mistress Ford in a new version of The Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare's Globe, directed by Sean Holmes.

Filmography Television and film Year Title Role Notes 2013 Our Girl Katy Episode: "Pilot" 2013 Our Pals Heather Royal Exchange, Manchester 2013 A Streetcar Named Desire Eunice Lyric Theatre 2013 Chamber Piece Amy Lyric Theatre 2014 Glitterland Victoria Lyric Theatre 2014–2015 A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts Protagonist / Antagonist Lyric Theatre 2015 A Stab in the Dark Captain De'Ath Lyric Theatre 2016 Husbands and Sons Gertie Coomer Royal National TheatreRoyal Exchange, Manchester 2017 Low Level Panic Jo Orange Tree Theatre 2017 The Last Ballad of Lillian Bilocca Yvonne / Ensemble Hull Truck Theatre 2018 Roundabout Season Various Paines Plough 2019 King John Cardinal Pandulph Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 2020 The Whip Horatia Poskitt Swan Theatre 2024–2025 A Midsummer Night's Dream Puck Barbican Theatre