1. Dame Catherine Winifred Harcourt, known professionally as Kate Harcourt, is a New Zealand actress.
15 Facts About Kate Harcourt
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Kate Harcourt was the youngest of three children, with an older brother, John Fulton, a prominent Canterbury farmer, and president of the Canterbury Jockey Club, as well as an older sister.
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Kate Harcourt went to Christchurch to train as a kindergarten teacher partly so she could continue with her singing and piano.
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Kate Harcourt attended the Joan Cross Opera School in London.
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Kate Harcourt played a part in the movie adaptation of The Changeover.
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Kate Harcourt met her husband Peter Kate Harcourt at Wellington Repertory Theatre.
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Kate Harcourt was from the family that founded Harcourts International real estate.
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Peter Kate Harcourt died on 6 March 1995 of cancer, two years after being appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order in the 1993 New Year Honours for service to the community as an actor, broadcaster and presenter for 54 years since 1941.
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Kate Harcourt returned to New Zealand from London and took up a teaching position at Woodfood House in Havelock North.
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Kate Harcourt's entry into national entertainment came as a regular voice in the morning Listen with Mother which was a radio show for pre-schoolers on Radio New Zealand.
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Kate Harcourt was later host of the children's TV show Junior Magazine.
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Kate Harcourt had a long association with theatre company Downstage starting out putting up posters for them.
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Kate Harcourt lists acting in New Zealand playwright Renee's Wednesday to Come as one of her career favourites.
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Kate Harcourt played Mary in the world premiere at Downstage Theatre in 1984.
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In 1998 Kate Harcourt performed on stage alongside her daughter Miranda Kate Harcourt in the biographical Flowers from my Mother's Garden at the New Zealand Festival of the Arts.