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Kate Hardie (born Kate Louise Oddie; 26 April 1968) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles in '' The Krays'', ''
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'' and the 2016
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original series ''
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''. Hardie's stage name is derived from those of both her parents: Jean Hart and Bill Od''die''.


Career

With no formal training, she auditioned for her first role, in the 1983 film '' Runners'' (written by Stephen Poliakoff and directed by
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), at the age of 14, telling her parents she had done so only when she had the part. She went on to appear in numerous films, including ''
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'' (1985),
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's ''
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'' (1986), ''
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'' (1987), '' Tree of Hands'' (1989), '' The Krays'' (1990), ''
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'' (1995), ''
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'' (1998) and ''
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'' (2002). On television her roles include the episode ''The Man Upstairs'' (1988) 02 E05of
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series, ''The Men's Room, Safe'' in which she was nominated for the Royal Television Society Best TV performer, and ''Beyond Reason''. She spent five months in Hollywood before returning to the UK to play the student nurse Karen O'Malley in the
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drama series ''
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''. In 1998, she starred in ''
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''. In 2006, she graduated in
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at the National Film and Television School. She wrote the short film ''King of London'' during her time there. She subsequently wrote two plays in
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's ''Coming Up'' series, ''Imprints'' (2007) and ''Little Bill Um'' (2008), the latter also being her directorial debut. In 2011, she wrote and directed a short film called ''Shoot Me'' starring
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and
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and produced by Rankin. In 2009, she appeared in the BBC drama ''
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''.


Personal life

Hardie left school and home in
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,
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, to live with a boy when she was 14. She later lived with the actor
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for six years. She met the
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and
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Rankin (John Rankin Waddell) on a photo shoot, and married him in 1995. After their son was born, she moved in with a fellow actor,
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, and divorced Rankin in 1998. Her relationship with Thewlis subsequently ended.


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1969 births Living people English television actresses 20th-century English actresses English film actresses 21st-century English actresses Place of birth missing (living people) English dramatists and playwrights Actresses from London People from Hampstead Alumni of the National Film and Television School {{England-actor-stub