Kate O'Mara
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Kate O'Mara (born August 10, 1939 in Leicester) is an English actress.
Although she was one of Hammer Studio's Glamour Girls (The Vampire Lovers, The Horror of Frankenstein), O'Mara these days is best known for her work in television series. Prominent roles in dramas such as The Brothers (as Jane Maxwell), Triangle (as Katherine Laker) and Howards' Way (as Laura Wilde) has seen O'Mara carve a niche for herself as a determined "ball-breaking" female on television. She also played a memorable villainess, the Rani, in the science fiction series Doctor Who,
O'Mara also has a history of playing siblings to established characters in two major TV series. She played Caress Morell, the scheming sister of Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan, in the American soap opera, Dynasty; and Jackie Stone, the "fabulous on an international scale" glamorous sister of Patsy, in Absolutely Fabulous.
O'Mara is also an author and has published a range of autobiographical books (Vamp Until Ready, Game Plan: A Woman's Survival Kit) as well as novels (When She Was Bad, Good Time Girl).
On radio, O'Mara made a guest appearance in the radio comedy series Nebulous in 2006.
[edit] Filmography
- The Saint (TV) (1965)
- The Champions episode To Catch a Rat (1968)
- The Avengers episode Stay Tuned (1968)
- Weavers Green (TV Series)
- Corruption (1967)
- The Limbo Line (1968)
- Promenade (1968)
- Great Catherine (1968)
- The Desperados (1969)
- The Main Chance (TV)
- The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
- The Vampire Lovers (1970)
- The Brothers (TV)
- Lord Peter Wimsey Clouds of Witness (1972) (TV)
- Whose Child Am I? (1974)
- The Tamarind Seed (1974)
- Machinegunner (1976) (TV)
- The Nativity (1978) (TV)
- Tuntematon ystävä (1978)
- The Plank (1979) (TV)
- Triangle (TV)
- Doctor Who (1985,1987,1993) (TV)
- Dynasty (TV)
- Howards' Way (TV)
- Absolutely Fabulous (TV)
- The Road to Ithaca (1999)
- Bad Girls (TV)
- Crossroads (TV)
- Family Affairs (TV)
