Kate Dickie

Kate Dickie
Kate Dickie
	Dickie in 2017
Born	23 March 1971; East Kilbride, Scotland
Alma mater	Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1994–present
Children	1

Kate Dickie (born 23 March 1971) is a Scottish actress who has appeared in television series, stage plays and films. She is known for her television roles as Lex in the BBC series Tinsel Town (2000–2001) and Lysa Arryn in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011, 2014). She supports the theatre company Solar Bear, which is known for its collaborations with deaf people, in part through her role as a patron.[1]

Dickie is also known for her portrayal of the security operative Jackie in her 2006 feature-film debut Red Road, directed by Andrea Arnold, for which she won several awards, including Best Actress at the British Academy Scotland Awards and the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress. She again won Best Actress at the 2016 British Academy Scotland Awards for the film Couple in a Hole. Her other film appearances include Prometheus (2012), Filth (2013), The Witch (2015), and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017).

Early life

Dickie was born in East Kilbride, Scotland, but spent part of her childhood in different parts of Scotland, Wigtownshire, Galloway, Perthshire and Ayrshire, due to frequent moves by her family. From an early age she discovered her passion for acting, which her parents also supported. Coming from a working-class family (her father was a farmer and gardener) in which no family member had been in the arts before, she was embarrassed to call herself an actress since she was afraid to be called pretentious.[2] Her desire for drama classes supported her to overcome her insecurities that appeared through the frequent school changes and helped her dealing with adjusting to new people and surroundings. After leaving school she went to college in Kirkcaldy to study for a national certificate in drama. In 1990, she won a place at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and decided to stay in Glasgow.[2] Dickie started to work in theatre and had the opportunity to perform with some of Scotland's best companies. She finally achieved her breakthrough in 2000, in the BBC Scotland / Raindog series, Tinsel Town.[2]

Acting career

Through Dickie's performance in her film debut Red Road (in which she plays a security camera operative who gets involved with people's everyday lives through her camera perspective and who begins to stalk a man for reasons relating to her past) with her former drama school mate and co-star Tony Curran, she gained more recognition as a serious actress.[3][4][5][6]

In the stage play Aalst, based on the true story of a couple who had killed their children and were sentenced in a high-profile trial, Dickie plays one of the parents. Her motivation to perform this role was her feeling of "responsibility to play people like that and to give them a voice. People that are not necessarily good or nice and have good lives."[2]

Dickie reprised the role of Jackie in Donkeys, a follow-up to Red Road which is directed by Morag McKinnon. She portrayed Mary in the United Kingdom supernatural thriller film Outcast.[7]

Dickie was a swimming trainer in the 2010 television film Dive.

She appears in the HBO television series Game of Thrones, where she plays the role of Lysa Arryn.[8]

In 2018 Dickie appeared in season 5 episode of Shetland and in 2020 Emma Stansfield and her appeared in Sleaford Mods' video for the previously unreleased song Second.[9]

Personal life

Dickie lives with her daughter, Molly Christie (born in 2004), and her boyfriend, Kenny, in Glasgow.

Filmography

Stage

Year	Title	Role
1994	Bonjour Tristesse
1997–98	Timeless
1999	Electra	Electra
1999	Mainstream
2000	AD
2001	Blooded
2002	Running Girl	Running Girl
2002–03	Lament
2003	The Entertainer
2005	Boiling a Frog	Fooaltiyeman
2005	Trojan Woman	Andromache
2007	Aalst	Cathy Delany

Television

Year	Title	Role	Note
1994	Rab C. Nesbitt	Young girl	(1 episode) – "Mother"
2000–2001	Tinsel Town	Lex
2003	The Vice	Beverly	(1 episode) – "Gameboys"
2003	Taggart		(1 episode) – "Penthouse and Pavement"
2004	Still Game	Pregnant Girl	(1 episode, Series 3) – "Swottin"
2006	Film '72	Herself
2007	Taggart	Wendy Nuget	(1 episode) – "Island" (2003)
2008	He Kills Coppers	Janis
2010	Five Daughters	Isabella Clennell	(2 episodes)
2010	Dive	Alison	(2 episodes)
2010	The Pillars of the Earth	Agnes Builder
2011, 2014	Game of Thrones	Lysa Arryn	(5 episodes)
2012	New Tricks	DCI Fiona MacDougall	(1 episode) – "Glasgow UCOS"
2013	By Any Means	Patricia Brooks	Episode #1,2
2015	London Spy	Editor	(1 episode) – "Strangers"
2015	The Frankenstein Chronicles	Mrs. Bishop
2016	One of Us	Sal	(4 episodes)
2017	Vera	Nell Hinkin	(1 episode) – "The Blanket Mire"
2018	The Cry	Morven Davis
2019	Shetland	DI Sam Boyd	(1 episode)
2019	Peaky Blinders	Mother Superior	(1 episode) - "Strategy"
2020	The English Game	Aileen Suter	(2 episodes)
2020	The Nest	Sergeant McClelland

Film

Year	Title	Role	Note
2003	Room for the Night	Prostitute	Short film
2005	Who Do You Love?	Mum	Short
2006	Accidents	Mum	Short
2006	Red Road	Jackie
2006	The Harvest	Emma Bovey	Short
2008	Somers Town	Jane
2008	Summer	Janice
2008	Trace	Karen	Short
2008	Pussyfooting	Joan	Short
2009	Believe	Janice
2010	Outcast	Mary
2010	Native Son	Policewoman	Short film (Cinema Extreme)
2010	Donkeys	Jackie
2012	Prometheus	Ford
2012	Shell	Claire
2013	Filth	Chrissie
2013	Not Another Happy Ending	Anna le Fevre
2013	For Those in Peril	Cathy
2014	Soror	Amanda	Short
2014	Catch Me Daddy
2015	The Witch	Katherine
2015	Couple in a Hole	Karen
2015	Gracie	Mary	Short
2016	Prevenge	Ella
2017	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	First Order Officer
2018	Tell It to the Bees	Pam Kranmer
2019	Balance, Not Symmetry[10]	Mary Walker
2020	The Green Knight		Post-production

Video Game

Year	Title	Role
2020	The Complex

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Work	Result
2000	British Academy Scotland Award Best Television Performance	Tinsel Town	Nominated
2006	British Academy Scotland Award Best Actress in a Scottish Film	Red Road	Won
2006	British Independent Film Award for Best Actress in a British Independent Film	Red Road	Won
2006	Montreal Festival of New Cinema Acting Award for Best Actress	Red Road	Won
2007	London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actress of the Year	Red Road	Nominated
2016	British Academy Scotland Award for Best Actress in a Scottish Film	Couple in a Hole	Won

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References

Celebrated at Cannes, but work still not easy for Kate THEATRE: | Sunday Herald, The | Find Articles at BNET
Waiting in the wings Kate Dickie wasn't prepared for the fame that | Sunday Herald, The | Find Articles at BNET Archived 18 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
Red Road – Movie Review
Movie Review: Red Road Archived 20 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
BBC – Movies – review – Red Road
The Brit pack of UK cinema – Features, Film & TV – The Independent
AFM '09: First Image, Details on Thriller 'Outcast'
The Sir Cafe Mom Archived 30 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine
Martin, Josh (7 May 2020). "Sleaford Mods share video for 'Second', featuring 'Game of Thrones" Kate Dickie". NME. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
Grater, Tom (5 October 2018). "Laura Harrier, Bria Vinaite, Lily Newmark board 'Balance, Not Symmetry' with Biffy Clyro (exclusive)". Screen International. Retrieved 30 December 2018.

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[1] Celebrated at Cannes, but work still not easy for Kate THEATRE: | Sunday Herald, The | Find Articles at BNET

[autogenerated1-2] Waiting in the wings Kate Dickie wasn't prepared for the fame that | Sunday Herald, The | Find Articles at BNET Archived 18 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine

[3] Red Road – Movie Review

[4] Movie Review: Red Road Archived 20 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine

[5] BBC – Movies – review – Red Road

[6] The Brit pack of UK cinema – Features, Film & TV – The Independent

[7] AFM '09: First Image, Details on Thriller 'Outcast'

[8] The Sir Cafe Mom Archived 30 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine

[9] Martin, Josh (7 May 2020). "Sleaford Mods share video for 'Second', featuring 'Game of Thrones" Kate Dickie". NME. Retrieved 18 May 2020.

[10] Grater, Tom (5 October 2018). "Laura Harrier, Bria Vinaite, Lily Newmark board 'Balance, Not Symmetry' with Biffy Clyro (exclusive)". Screen International. Retrieved 30 December 2018.