Kate Brooke, Lady Lovegrove is a British
screenwriter.
Origins, education and early career
Brooke is the daughter of the late Timothy Sergison-Brooke and the Hon. Mary Anne Hare (b. 9 April 1936), eldest daughter of
John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham
John Hugh Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham, OBE, PC, DL (22 January 1911 – 7 March 1982) was a British Conservative politician.
Background and education
Blakenham was the third son of The Rt. Hon. Richard Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel, an Anglo ...
. She was educated at
Wycombe Abbey School
, motto_translation = Go in faith
, established = 1896
, type = Independent boarding school
, religion = Church of England
, head_label = Headmistress
, head = J. Duncan
, chair_label = Chair ...
and
Christ Church, Oxford, where she read English. After Oxford, she studied at
L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq
École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq is a school of physical theatre located on Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
Founded in 1956 by Jacques Lecoq, the school offers a professional and intensive two-ye ...
in Paris before setting up her own theatre group in England.
While working in the theatre, she adapted a number of works for the stage,
[The Agenc]
web-site
accessed on 6 January 2013 including:
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Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquir ...
’s
''The Tenth Man''
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François Mauriac
François Charles Mauriac (, oc, Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the'' Académie française'' (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize ...
’s
''Thérèse Desqueyroux''
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Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...
’s ''
Bel Ami
''Bel-Ami'' (, "Dear Friend") is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled ''Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel'' first appeared in 1903.
The story chronicles journalist ...
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Saki
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and cultu ...
’s ''
Beasts and Super-Beasts''
Writing credits
Awards and nominations
Personal life
Brooke is married to
Sir Stephen Lovegrove, a senior civil servant and currently the UK's National Security Adviser. They have two daughters and live in London.
References
External links
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British screenwriters
British television writers
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
People educated at Wycombe Abbey
Living people
L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
British women television writers
Wives of knights