Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly (; born 14 March 1982) is an English actress, director, writer, producer, and musician. She has appeared in film, television, radio and theatre.

Early life

Maberly was born in

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, Surrey, England. She is the daughter of a lawyer and one of five children; her older sister

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is also an actress. She has two older brothers, Thomas and Guy, and one younger brother, Jack. Maberly attended

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, Reigate where she skipped ahead a year and left with

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in maths, chemistry, history and music. Maberly began swimming competitively at the age of 5 and was a county champion swimmer up to the age of 16. At 7 years old she completed the BT National Swimathon (as the youngest individual to complete the event at the time) which she did to raise money for St Piers Lingfield (Now "Young Epilepsy"), a school to help children with Epilepsy. She represented her county in tennis from the age of 12, and from 2004-2010 she played for the Royal Parks tennis leagues in London. Maberly started playing the piano at the age of 6, and at 14 travelled to Venice, Italy, with the Dunottar Chamber Ensemble to perform as the solo pianist, in a performance of

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's Piano Concerto no. 23 (K488). She achieved grade 8 in both Piano and Cello in school and went on to study at London's

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graduating in 2004 with a joint honours degree in piano and cello performance. She also composes music and sings jazz and has sung at London jazz venue Pizza on the Park.

Career

Maberly's breakthrough role came in 1993 when she starred as

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in the feature film '' The Secret Garden''. Directed by

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, the film achieved international acclaim and has gone on to become a family classic. This internationally acclaimed performance paved the way for several subsequent lead roles, including; Dinah Bellman in ''

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'', alongside David Morse and Patricia Wettig,

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in ''

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'', with Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Peter O'Toole and Kristen Scott Thomas, Ira in '' Friendship's Field'', and Vanessa in '' Mothertime''. Back in the UK Maberly continued to work on various high caliber

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s for the BBC, including; the Bafta-winning " ''Anglo-Saxon-Attitudes''" with

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and

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; the Bafta / Golden Globe-winning " ''The Last of the Blond Bombshells''" with

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and

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; the Emmy-winning " ''Victoria & Albert''", the Bafta-winning "Daniel Deronda" directed by

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, and the enchanting Hollywood blockbuster " ''Finding Neverland''", with

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and

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. She took to the stage as Juliet in Shakespeare's "''

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''", and then as 'Mathilde' in Christopher Hampton's " ''Total Eclipse''" at the

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in London, alongside Ben Whishaw and Matthew Macfadyen. Since graduating, Maberly has appeared in the feature films ''

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,'' with Eddie Redmayne and Toni Collette, ''

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'', ''

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,'' with Christian Slater and Wes Bentley, '' Standing Up,'' with Val Kilmer and Rhada Mitchell, ''The Ghastly Love of Johnny X,'' and ''Boogeyman 3.'' She also starred in the hit HULU/FX show ''

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'' alongside Xander Berkley. In addition to her work on screen Maberly has performed voice-overs for ''Ordynek, Bringing the Pride of Poland to Texas'' in 2000 and for ''The Braniff Pages'' in 2001. She has completed several radio works for

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, including ''The Dorabella Variation'', ''A Certain Smile'', and ''National Velvet''. Maberly's narration of the

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''Catherine Called Birdy'', written by Karen Cushman, received an

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in 1995. In 2007 Maberly teamed up with a London area music producer to record several of her own songs for a new

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. Maberly demonstrated her musical abilities by playing the piano in the 1995 BBC drama '' Mothertime'' and playing the cello in the 2004 short film ''The Audition''. She also produced and directed a music video for the Danish rock band Blooq a.k.a. Triggerbox. In 2015, Maberly wrote, directed, and produced a short film, ''Charlie's Supersonic Glider'', which opened the

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. With producing partner

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, Maberly is writing, producing, and directing ''

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'', adapted from the best-selling Young Adult series by Carrie Ryan. Maberly was named one of ''

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s "10 Brits to Watch in 2017".

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

* A reading of

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's ''

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'' (directed by Daniel Evans) at the

(2006) * Juliet in

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's ''

'' (directed by Richard Twyman) with Midas Touch Theatre Company

Discography

Collaborations

Radio

* ''The Shoemaker's Daughter'' * ''The Dora Bella Variation'' * ''

Little Women ''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Alcott wrote the book, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, at the request of her publisher. The story follows the live ...

'' * ''Walls of Silence'' * ''

National Velvet ''National Velvet'' is a novel by Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), first published in 1935. It was illustrated by Laurian Jones, Bagnold's daughter, who was born in 1921. Plot summary ''National Velvet'' is the story of a 14-year-old girl named ...

'' * ''

A Certain Smile ''A Certain Smile'' was originally published in French as ''Un certain sourire'' by the Paris publisher Juillard in 1956. It was the second novel by Françoise Sagan and was written in two months. Two translations into English then followed in 195 ...

'' * ''My Wounded Heart'' * ''Peter Pan in Scarlet'' * '' The Browning Version''

Other

* ''Catherine Called Birdie'' (audiobook narrator) *

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promotion for "The Braniff Pages" – braniffpages.com (commercial

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) * A voiceover for horse documentary ''The Origins of the Arabian'' * ''Ordynek, Bringing The Pride of Poland to Texas'' (commercial voiceover, 2000)

Publications

* Article Factory Magazine (USA) April 2007, Iss. Spring, pg. 54–62, "British Young Guns" * Pictorial Factory Magazine (USA) April 2007, Iss. Spring, pg. 54–64, "British Young Guns" * Variety Magazine (USA) February 2017, Iss. Winter "10 Brits to Watch in 2017"

Awards

Maberly has won two professional awards: * Audie Award for ''Catherine Called Birdie'' * Special Award from The London Film Critics Circle for '' The Secret Garden''.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maberly, Kate 1982 births Living people Audiobook narrators English child actresses English film actresses English women guitarists English guitarists English pop pianists English radio actresses English women singer-songwriters English television actresses English voice actresses People from Reigate English Shakespearean actresses People educated at Dunottar School for Girls English women pop singers 21st-century English women singers 21st-century English singers 21st-century pianists 21st-century British guitarists 21st-century women guitarists 21st-century women pianists