Kate O'Mara

Date de naissance
10 août 1939 · Leicester, Leicestershire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
Date de décès
30 mars 2014 · Sussex, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni (cancer des ovaires)
Nom de naissance
Frances Meredith Carroll
Surnoms
- Merrie
- Merrie Carroll
Taille
1,63 m

She gave birth to a baby boy on May 12, 1965, from a brief liaison with David Orchard, who she met on the set of No Hiding Place (1959). Being already a single mother at the time of his birth, she gave the baby up. He was adopted by a married couple, Derek and Joy Linde and named Christopher Linde.
She died from ovarian cancer in a nursing home in Sussex, UK.
Lived alone in a 17th-century cottage in the Blackdown Hills in Somerset, England with her cat Perdita.
Was a vegetarian and animal rights activist.
She was seriously considered for a major role (Sable or Frankie) on Dynastie II: Les Colby (1985) before being offered the role of Cassandra "Caress" Morell on Dynastie (1981).

I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men. I know I've always played man-eater parts but I'm really not a sexual animal and I've never had a voracious sexual appetite.
Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket, and has gotten me through countless personal crisis. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.
[on her desire to play the Rani, an evil Time Lady, in Doctor Who (2005) again] I'm a much older woman and there's a huge population of older people who, if they're watching television, they can't watch Hollyoaks (1995). If you put a much older woman in Doctor Who (2005), they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept and if you remember things like Grimm's Fairytales, the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure - why I do not know, but often she is. I think it's an idea to be exploited.
I have white hair now, but a lot of it, and I'm still very glamorous and so I won't disappoint, I hope! I'll still be wearing the tight leather trousers and high-heel boots, regardless of what age!