Kate Bateman
Biography
Kate Bateman is an Actress, Director and Producer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Born in the UK, she spent most of her life in Edmonton, where she studied acting in the BA and BFA programs at the University of Alberta. During those years, she co-founded the company Theatre Plastic and learned how to splice 16mm film stock with the good people at FAVA. Memorable theatre credits playing King Lear in KING LEAR, Ophelia in HAMLET, Karen in SPEED-THE-PLOW, Varya in THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Queen Elizabeth 1 in THE CLINK, Chick Boyle in Crimes of the Heart, Claire Zachanassian in THE VISIT, and Heloise in the one-woman show she adapted and produced, entitled HELOISE, OBSERVED ONE NIGHT AT THE MOMENT OF TEMPTATION. She played the lead in an epic short film, TORA, starring opposite David Suzuki in his first-ever acting role; co-stars and co-produces the ongoing web series THE ACTRESS DIARIES, which earned her a Leo Award; and cherishes both her therapeutic work with VANCOUVER PLAYBACK THEATRE and ongoing creation work with THE ASSEMBLY, an all-womxn clown troupe in Vancouver.
Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles
Drama Series - 2014, 16 episodes • as Woman
100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
Drama Series - 2011, 16 episodes • as Mother
There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell.
Drama Series - 2011, 16 episodes • as Female Uniform
The Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series Forbrydelsen. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the various murder investigations by homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder.
Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • as Physician
The series centers on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the rebel group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop corporations of the future from replacing governments, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing to anyone that she and the rebels are from the future.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Nancy
Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as IAD Panelist
Grace, a morally and emotionally-conflicted undercover detective, is tormented by the possibility that her own actions contributed to her son’s death. Grace’s search for the truth is further complicated by her forbidden relationship with Jimmy, the crime boss who may have played a hand in the crime.
Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Borg Woman
Gabby Duran, who constantly feels like she’s living in the shadows of her mother and younger sister, finally finds her moment to shine when she inadvertently lands an out-of-this-world job to babysit an unruly group of very important extraterrestrial children who are hiding out on Earth with their families, disguised as everyday kids.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as Peasant #1
In Victorian England, the young and beautiful Alice tells a tale of a strange new land that exists on the other side of a rabbit hole. Thinking Alice insane, her doctors aim to make her forget everything. While Alice is ready to put it all behind her, she knows this world is real. In the nick of time, the Knave of Hearts and the White Rabbit save her from a doomed fate. Together, the trio tumble down the rabbit hole to Wonderland, where nothing is impossible.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as Cashier
After a rash of disappearances and a likely murder, an inquisitive, young female production assistant on a wildly popular television show called Cult joins a journalist blogger in investigating the rabid fans of the series who might be re-creating crimes seen on the program, in real life.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Todd's mother
The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Adam's Mom
A college student suspects that a nurse may harm her lonely, widowed mother.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Adam's Mama
A college student suspects that a nurse may harm her lonely, widowed mother.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Jenna
Starring David Suzuki, (world renowned environmentalist) in his first acting role ever...TORA follows a jaded city woman who inherits a lakeside property and is haunted by a little ghost girl. Through dreams and flashbacks of her new neighbor (Suzuki) she discovers that the property was a Japanese Internment Camp during WWII and that the little girl died while in the camp. Themes of loss, hope and forgiveness are explored in this epic drama that swings between the beautiful scenery of British Columbia Canada and the cold winters of the 1940's. TORA captures the landscapes on stunning cinema-scope film.