Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Kate Elliott (actress)
New Zealand television and film actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Kate Elliott (born 30 December 1981) is a New Zealand television and film actress.[1] She was born in Auckland, and resides in Sydney, Australia.[citation needed]
Kate played ‘Clark’ in Flying Lotus’s film Ash. She also portrayed ‘Heidi’ the literary agent in ABC’s Austin. Kate has portrayed New Zealand icons Katherine Mansfield in ‘Bliss’ and Jean Batten in ‘Jean’. Kate played the violent inmate ‘Spike’ in Wentworth series 5. Kate played the role of one of the "Liberators" in The Cult.[2] She has acted in The Insider's Guide To Love,[3] The Locals,[4] Fracture,[5] and Toy Love. She played Yakut, an Amazon, in several episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess, 1998–2000. Elliott also assumed the role of Lily in Cleopatra 2525. She plays a vampire in a film called 30 Days of Night and the role of Detective Jess Savage in the New Zealand mini-series The Gulf.[1]
Kate has won three Best Actress awards and been nominated three more times at the NZ film and TV awards.
She was married to Pluto's lead singer, Milan Borich, on 17 January 2006. They have a daughter. In 2016 she eloped with David Benge, managing director of the New Zealand office of worldwide media company VICE.[6][7] Both marriages had ended by 2019.[8] Elliott came out queer to her daughter in 2019.[8]
Remove ads
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
Remove ads
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads