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Kate Dickie (born 1971) is a Scottish actress who has appeared in television series,
stage plays and films. She is known for her television roles as Lex in the
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series ''
Tinsel Town'' (2000–2001) and
Lysa Arryn
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in the
HBO series ''
Game of Thrones'' (2011, 2014).
Dickie is also known for her portrayal of the security operative Jackie in her 2006 feature-film debut ''
Red Road'', directed by
Andrea Arnold, for which she won several awards, including Best Actress at the
British Academy Scotland Awards
The British Academy Scotland Awards are presented annually at an awards ceremony organised by BAFTA Scotland.
History
The annual British Academy Scotland Awards were launched in 2004 to recognise outstanding achievement by individuals working in t ...
and the
British Independent Film Award for Best Actress. She again won Best Actress at the
2016 British Academy Scotland Awards for the film ''
Couple in a Hole''. Her other film appearances include ''
Prometheus
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'' (2012), ''
Filth
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'' (2013), ''
The Witch
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'' (2015), and ''
Star Wars: The Last Jedi'' (2017).
She supports the theatre company Solar Bear, which is known for its collaborations with deaf people, in part through her role as a patron.
Early life
Dickie was born in
East Kilbride
East Kilbride (; gd, Cille Bhrìghde an Ear ) is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland and the country's sixth-largest locality by population. It was also designated Scotland's first new town on 6 May 1947. The area lies on a rais ...
, Scotland. She spent part of her childhood in different parts of Scotland,
Wigtownshire
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,
Galloway
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A native or ...
,
Perthshire and
Ayrshire, due to frequent moves by her family. From an early age she discovered her passion for acting, which her parents supported. Coming from a working-class family (her father was a farmer and gardener) in which no family member had been in the arts before, she was embarrassed to call herself an actress since she was afraid to be called pretentious.
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Her desire for drama classes supported her to overcome her insecurities that appeared through the frequent school changes and helped her dealing with adjusting to new people and surroundings. After leaving school she went to
college in Kirkcaldy to study for a national certificate in drama. In 1990, she won a place at the
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and decided to stay in Glasgow.
Career
Dickie started to work in theatre. She achieved her breakthrough in 2000, in the BBC Scotland / Raindog series ''Tinsel Town''.
Through Dickie's performance in her film debut ''
Red Road'' with her former drama school mate and co-star
Tony Curran
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, she gained more recognition as a serious actress.
In the stage play ''
Aalst'', based on the true story of a couple who had killed their children and were sentenced in a high-profile trial, Dickie plays one of the parents. Her motivation to perform this role was her feeling of "responsibility to play people like that and to give them a voice. People that are not necessarily good or nice and have good lives."
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Dickie reprised the role of Jackie in '']Donkeys
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'', a follow-up to ''Red Road'' which is directed by Morag McKinnon. She portrayed Mary in the United Kingdom supernatural thriller film
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'' Outcast''. Dickie was a swimming trainer in the 2010 television film '' Dive''.
She appears in the HBO television series '' Game of Thrones'', where she plays the role of Lysa Arryn
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.
In 2018, Dickie appeared in a season 5 episode of '' Shetland''. In 2020, she appeared with Emma Stansfield
Emma Stansfield (born Emma Thompson on 7 January 1978 in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales) is a Welsh actress.
Life
Born Emma Thompson, her parents Colin and Gill Thompson trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, and run an amateur d ...
in the music video for Sleaford Mods
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' previously unreleased song "Second".
Filmography
Stage
Television
Film
Video game
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
External links
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1971 births
Scottish film actresses
Scottish stage actresses
Scottish television actresses
Living people
People from East Kilbride
Actresses from Glasgow
20th-century Scottish actresses
21st-century Scottish actresses