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Kathryn Victoria O'Reilly is an English television, film and theatre actress. Born and raised in Surrey with Irish and East End London heritage. Kathryn has huge range and versatility from playing the savage and foul mouthed convict Liz Morden in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good "Kathryn O'Reilly is hugely impressive as the flinty thief who ultimately saves her neck by discovering her voice" Michael Billington The Guardian, to Queen Jocasta in Oedipus "it was as if another person had taken over Kathryn O'Reilly's body as she became the most regal of Jocastas" Gerry Parker Bristol Evening Post, &quo
Kathryn Victoria O'Reilly is an English television, film and theatre actress. Born and raised in Surrey with Irish and East End London heritage. Kathryn has huge range and versatility from playing the savage and foul mouthed convict Liz Morden in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good "Kathryn O'Reilly is hugely impressive as the flinty thief who ultimately saves her neck by discovering her voice" Michael Billington The Guardian, to Queen Jocasta in Oedipus "it was as if another person had taken over Kathryn O'Reilly's body as she became the most regal of Jocastas" Gerry Parker Bristol Evening Post, "feisty Red Riding Hood" Clare Peel Theatreworld, and playing various roles including the wicked stepmother to the eccentric and schizophrenic Jones in Semblance of Madness "O'Reilly delivers a gifted and sometimes electric performance" John Park Fringe Report, various male roles including a young Chinese man in ATC's (Actors Touring Company) tour of The Golden Dragon "arresting too is Kathryn O'Reilly, playing the drunk who treads a fine line between comedy and tragedy but successfully pulls it off" Jack Bradley Fringe Review, to "A strident performance" This is Lancashire, as Bella a youth theatre director in Mixed Up North working with Celia Imrie for Bolton Octagon Theatre and Out of Joint. Film and TV roles include Suzanne in the multi award feature film Zebra Crossing, "Kathryn O'Reilly's bed bound Suzanne treating us to a wonderful maternal maturity" David Cornish Bestforfilms.com to working with Juliet Stevenson in an episode of Lewis playing Oxford graduate Poppy Toynton directed by Nicholas Renton. From playing working class drug addicts fighting to keep her children in The Bill directed by Robert Knights and Rough Justice directed by Michael Keillor to the other side of the law a playing police officer Beth Jackson in Doctors and a policewoman in Debbie Tucker Green's Bafta award winning film Random starring Nadine Marshall. As a playwright Kathryn has achieved further success working with director Blanche McIntyre on development and a reading of her play Scarred with Out Of Joint, with the following cast Carey Mulligan, Celia Imrie, Jamie Foreman, Johnny Harris, Phil Davis, Emma Lowndes and Matthew Needham. This play was long-listed to the top 100 out of over 2000 submissions for The Bruntwood playwright competition Kathryn's play Screwed premiered at Theatre503 in London and is published by Nick Hern Books. Kathryn also works as a 1st AD for Free Seed Films and assisted on their first short film Los Jack Machine and two subsequent music videos working with Andy Serkis, Toyah Wilcox, David Westhead, Topper Headon and Mick Gallagher with The Blockheads for their latest album Same Horse Different Jockey with director Francois Techene.
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