Kate Thompson (Born 17 November 1959) is an actress and
romantic novelist who also writes as Pixie Pirelli (the writer heroine of ''Sex, Lies and Fairytales'').
Biography
She was born in
Belfast
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,
Northern Ireland
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, and studied English and French at
Trinity College Dublin.
She spent many years as an actress in theatre and television, most notably in the Irish drama serial ''
Glenroe
''Glenroe'' was a television drama series broadcast on RTÉ One in Ireland between September 1983, when the first episode was aired, and May 2001. A spin-off from ''Bracken'' — a short-lived RTÉ drama itself spun off from ''The Riordans'' †...
''. She married the actor Malcolm Douglas in 1985 and has a daughter Clara (born 1987). In 1989 she won the Best Actress Award in the
Dublin Theatre Festival. Her first novel, ''It Means Mischief'', was published in 1999. ''The Blue Hour'' was shortlisted for the Parker Romantic Novel of the Year.
Her light-hearted novels feature characters involved in the arts and business, living between the South of France and Connemara, whose romances and lives have grown in the
Celtic Tiger years and the successive austerity.
Works
*''It Means Mischief'' (1999)
*''More Mischief'' (2000)
*''Going Down'' (2001)
*''The Blue Hour'' (2002)
*''Striking Poses'' (2003)
*''A Perfect Life'' (2004)
*''Living the Dream'' (2004)
*''Sex, Lies and Fairytales'' (2005)
*''Hard to Choos'' (2006) (as Pixie Pirelli)
*''Love Lies Bleeding'' (2007)
*''Star Gazing'' (2008)
*''The Kinsella Sisters'' (2009)
*''O'hara Affair'' (2010)
*''That Gallagher Girl'' (2011)
References
External links
*Official website of Kate Thompson
Official website of Pixie Pirelli
1959 births
Living people
Romantic fiction writers from Northern Ireland
Women novelists from Northern Ireland
Television actresses from Northern Ireland
Stage actresses from Northern Ireland
Soap opera actresses from Northern Ireland
21st-century women writers from Northern Ireland
Actresses from Belfast
Date of birth missing (living people)
Women romantic fiction writers
21st-century novelists from Northern Ireland
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