Actor Kathryn Hunter

Kathryn Hunter

1957 (68 лет)
Kathryn Hunter (born Aikaterini Hadjipateras on April 9, 1957) is a British-American actress and theatre director known for her unique physical theatre performances. She gained recognition for roles like Arabella Figg in Harry Potter, Eedy Karn in Andor, and the Three Witches in The Tragedy of Macbeth, which earned her a New York Film Critics Circle Award. Born in New York to Greek parents and raised in England, she trained at RADA and studied clowning with Philippe Gaulier.

Hunter is celebrated for her versatility and has worked with companies like Shared Experience and Complicité. She won an Olivier Award in 1991 for The Visit and became the first British woman to play King Lear. Other notable stage roles include Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cleopatra, and the title roles in Cyrano de Bergerac and Timon of Athens. She recently starred in Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

On screen, Hunter has appeared in Rome, voiced Gorn in Tron: Uprising, and starred in Black Earth Rising. She was married to Marcello Magni, co-founder of Complicité, until his death in 2022.