Kate Copstick

Kate Copstick[1] is a Paisley-born Scottish actress, television presenter, writer, critic, director and producer.

Career

She is best known for her roles on the children's TV shows No. 73 and ChuckleVision. She also played Marlene Marlowe in Marlene Marlowe Investigates and performed as part of the ensemble cast of former Saturday morning BBC kid's show On the Waterfront. Copstick executive-produced the Natural Born Racers TV series[2] that followed the Virgin Mobile Yamaha R6 Cup.[3]

Copstick is also well known as a commentator on human sexuality. After years writing for the Erotic Review,[4] she enjoyed it so much she bought the company.[5][6]

At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, she was a Perrier Comedy Award judge in 2003[7] and 2004[8] and a Malcolm Hardee Award judge in 2008–2015.[9] She lends her voice to the announcements at Fort William railway station.[10]

Recently she has been spending much time in Kenya working with HIV+ women and their families. Through CWAC (Children With AIDS Charity), of which she is vice-chair, she has started Mama Biashara ("Business Mother"), working to set these women up in small businesses, thus making them financially independent.[11][12] [13] She made Positive Thinking for BBC1 – the UK's first television documentary on children and HIV/AIDS for children.[14] She is a patron of the Waverley Care Trust.[15]

Filmography

Actress

Writer

Self

  • Show Me the Funny (2011) - Judge (TV)
  • Dawn Goes Lesbian (2008) - Instructor
  • The If.comedy Awards: A Comedy Cuts Special (2007) (TV)
  • RIP 2002 (2002) (TV)
  • Hotel Getaway (1 episode, 2000)
  • No Kidding (1991) - Presenter
  • Crosswits - Regular Panelist
  • On the Waterfront (12 episodes, 1989)
  • So You Want to be Top? (1983) (TV)- Co-host

Bibliography
  • Masterclass: Girl on Girl: Erotic Print Society, January 2008. ISBN 1-904989-40-3 - ISBN 978-1-904989-40-0
  • Porn Week: Erotic Print Society, May 2007. ISBN 1-904989-31-4 - ISBN 978-1-904989-31-8
  • The Illustrated Book of Sapphic Sex: Erotic Print Society, May 2000. ISBN 1-898998-25-6 - ISBN 978-1-898998-25-9

References
  1. Women can't write about sex?
  2. "Broadcast magazine". 7 November 2007.
  3. "‘natural Born Racers’ Come To Life", MCP, 24 April 2003.
  4. Editorial Team Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Tait, Simon (14 June 2009). "'Erotic Review' back to titillate – and educate". The Independent. London. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  6. "The Scotsman". Edinburgh. 14 May 2009.
  7. "BBC News". 20 August 2003. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
  8. Jones, Rebecca (11 August 2004). "BBC News". Retrieved 5 January 2010.
  9. "Malcolm Hardee Award site, 2008".
  10. "Kate Copstick Biography". UK game shows.
  11. Fleming, John (8 November 2012), "Feared UK Comedy Critic Kate Copstick Has Links With African Criminals and Deals Drugs in Kenya", Huffington Post.
  12. Fleming, John (20 February 2018), "Mama Biashara’s expanding charity work in Kenya – with Kate Copstick", So It Goes.
  13. Fleming John (15 February 2019), "Kate Copstick and the sexually-abused girl being held in a Nairobi hospital", So It Goes.
  14. CWAC's Board of Trustees
  15. "Key People". Waverley Care. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
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