Caroline Catz
| Caroline Catz | |
|---|---|
|
Catz on the set of Doc Martin | |
| Born |
Caroline Caplan 19 October 1969 Manchester, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Television |
The Vice (1999-2003) Doc Martin (2004—) DCI Banks (2012–2016) I Want My Wife Back (2016) |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Higgs (m. 1997) |
| Children | 2 |
Caroline Catz (born Caroline Caplan 19 October 1969) is an English film, television, theatre and radio actress, best known for her role as Louisa Glasson in Doc Martin since 2004.
Her other roles have included Detective Inspector Kate Ashurst in Murder in Suburbia, Detective Inspector Helen Morton in DCI Banks, and PC Cheryl Hutchins in The Vice.
Career
Television
Catz began acting in the early 1990s, initially playing minor roles. On registering with Equity, she discovered that an actress with the name Caroline Caplan was already registered, so she had to choose a different professional name.
She played opposite Michael Kitchen in a TV movie, The Guilty that opened in June 1992. In 1994 she took a lead role in the BBC's All Quiet on the Preston Front, which ran for three series. She followed this with a spell in The Bill as Rosie Fox, during which she met Michael Higgs, who later became her husband. Her part in The Bill was the first of four long-term roles in which she played police officers; later in The Vice she was a PC, in Murder in Suburbia she was a Detective Inspector.
Since 2004, Catz has starred in ITV's Doc Martin, where she plays primary school headmistress Louisa Glasson.
Catz has continued to appear in one-off roles, including In Denial of Murder, in which she played real-life murder victim Wendy Sewell, and in an episode of Hotel Babylon. She also appeared in a two-part episode of Single Handed entitled The Stolen Child as Dr Maggie Hunter. Originally shown in Ireland in January 2008, it was broadcast by ITV on 9 August 2009.
From 2012 until 2016, she played Detective Inspector Helen Morton in DCI Banks. In November 2016, it was announced that ITV had axed the show.[1]
In 2014, Catz directed the documentary titled A Message to the World...Whatever Happened to Jesse Hector? Also in 2014, she narrated the BBC's television documentary Ebola – The Search for a Cure.
Catz starred in the 2016 BBC One sitcom series I Want My Wife Back, playing the role of Bex.
Radio
She co-starred in Déjà Vu, a radio play broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 4 February 2009.[2]
Stage
In November 2008 she played Anna, the puppet maker, in the stage production On Emotion.[3] She has previously appeared in the West End in the Out of Joint/Royal Court Theatre production of Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking. In 2012 she played Marlene in Caryl Churchill's play Top Girls directed by Max Stafford-Clark.
Personal life
Catz is married to fellow actor Michael Higgs; the couple met on the set of The Bill. They have a son born in 2001 and a daughter born in 2006.
Filmography
- Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | The Guilty | ||
| 1994–1997 | All Quiet on the Preston Front | Dawn Lomax | |
| 1998–2000 | The Bill | Rosie Fox | |
| 1999–2003 | The Vice | PC Cheryl Hutchins | |
| 2004 | In Denial of Murder[4] | Wendy Sewell | |
| 2004–2005 | Murder in Suburbia | DI Kate "Ash" Ashurst | |
| 2004— | Doc Martin | Louisa Glasson | 7 series |
| 2008/2009 | Single Handed | Dr Maggie Hunter | |
| 2012–2016 | DCI Banks | DI Helen Morton | 5 series |
| 2014 | A Message to the World...Whatever Happened to Jesse Hector?— | Director | |
| Ebola – The Search for a Cure | Narrator | ||
| 2016 | I Want My Wife Back | Bex | 1 series |
References
- ↑ http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a813576/itv-axes-dci-banks-after-six-years-and-brief-encounters-is-cancelled-too/
- ↑ BBC report on Déjà-Vu
- ↑ On Emotion at Soho Theatre The Telegraph, 18 November 2008
- ↑ "Dramatisation of Bakewell cemetery murder filming for BBC ONE". BBC Press Office. BBC. 29 August 2003. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
