Kate Marie Nash was born on 6 July 1987 and is an English singer-songwriter and actress.
50 Facts About Kate Nash
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Kate Nash's debut album, Made of Bricks, peaked at No 1 in the UK and was a moderate international success.
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Kate Nash played Rhonda "Britannica" Richardson in the Netflix comedy-drama series GLOW.
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Kate Nash is a feminist activist who campaigns against gender inequality.
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Kate Marie Nash was born in the London Borough of Harrow in London on 6 July 1987, the second of three daughters born to an English father and Irish mother.
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Kate Nash's father, Steve, is a systems analyst, while her mother, Marie, was a hospice nurse.
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Kate Nash learned to play the piano at an early age.
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Kate Nash attended the BRIT School and originally wanted to study acting, but turned to music after she was rejected from several drama colleges and universities, including the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Kate Nash embarked on a musical career in 2005, when she started recording after falling down the stairs and breaking her foot, which left her homebound.
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Kate Nash started performing live, holding her first shows in pubs, at open mic nights, and an anti-folk festival in Brighton.
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In February 2008, Kate Nash was honoured with the Best British Female Solo Artist award at the 2008 Brit Awards.
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Kate Nash won the Q Award for Breakthrough Artist and the NME Award for Best Solo Artist.
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Kate Nash embarked on her first tour in Australia and the US in 2008 and opened the 2008 Glastonbury Festival.
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In March 2009, Kate Nash became one of the founding members of Featured Artists' Coalition, a nonprofit organization and lobbying group, and revealed that she was in the early stages of recording her second album.
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Kate Nash was introduced by her boyfriend Ryan Jarman to Bernard Butler, the producer of Duffy's debut album Rockferry and a former guitarist for Suede.
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In January 2010, Kate Nash revealed that the album was complete, and the following month the song "I Just Love You More" was made available for free download from her official website.
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On her UK tour that year, Kate Nash promoted the initiative in schools such as the City of Portsmouth Girls' School, Woodchurch High School and John Madejski Academy.
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In February 2012, Kate Nash wrote and recorded a song with some of the Occupy London protesters camping outside the St Paul's Cathedral, following workshops led by her and Sam Duckworth of Get Cape.
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Kate Nash collaborated with Brisbane-based band The Thin Kids which resulted in the single "The Thin Kids Theme" released on her label and wrote the song "I Am Me" with Willow Smith, which was released later in 2012.
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In June 2012, Kate Nash embarked on a 12-date Faster Pussycat Run Run Tour across the UK and released a new song, "Under-Estimate the Girl", for free on her website as an intro to her third studio album.
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The punk and grunge-influenced song, which Kate Nash wrote, recorded and made a video for in under 24 hours, received mostly negative feedback.
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Kate Nash had a small role in Greetings from Tim Buckley, a film about Tim and Jeff Buckley, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Kate Nash appeared in films Syrup and Powder Room, released the following year.
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Kate Nash was featured on Watsky's song "Hey, Asshole" from his 2013 album Cardboard Castles.
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Kate Nash promoted the album by extensively touring Europe and the Americas.
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In 2014, Kate Nash performed at the Coachella and Lollapalooza festivals, and released a new free single "She Rules" which was accompanied by a DIY music video filmed on a mobile phone.
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Kate Nash co-wrote the song "Poison" which was a UK number 3 hit for Rita Ora in 2015.
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Later that year, Kate Nash discovered that her manager, Gary Marella, had been stealing large sums of money from her, which resulted in near-bankruptcy.
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Kate Nash pressed legal charges against Marella and he was eventually ordered to pay her back the stolen money.
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In 2016, Kate Nash released a standalone single "Good Summer", followed by "My Little Alien" which was written about a dog she had adopted.
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Kate Nash joined the cast of a Netflix series GLOW telling a fictionalized story of the 1980s women's professional wrestling promotion, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, where she played Rhonda "Britannica" Richardson.
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In September 2018, Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl, a documentary film by Amy Goldstein, premiered at the LA Film Festival.
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Kate Nash continued working on her fifth studio album, partially inspired by Irish traditional music.
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Kate Nash appeared alongside the band in the documentary Evidently.
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Kate Nash is known for retaining her thick London accent when she sings and makes no attempt to sing in an American accent.
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Kate Nash's music was used as part of an exhibition at the British Library which traced the history of Cockney English.
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Kate Nash is a natural redhead but dyed her hair black for her role in the film Greetings from Tim Buckley, and subsequently maintained two-tone black and blonde hair to promote the 2013 album Girl Talk.
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Kate Nash often wears punk-inspired jewelry, such as earrings made of safety pins and razor blades.
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In September 2009, Kate Nash helped to raise funds for five-year-old Tilly Lockey, who lost her hands due to meningococcal disease.
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Kate Nash used an auction on eBay to help donate money to Lockey's parents so that she could afford a pair of prosthetic hands.
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Kate Nash is a vocal feminist and campaigns to fight gender inequality in music industry.
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Kate Nash supported the Russian feminist band Pussy Riot during their trial by encouraging her fans to make posters and raise awareness of their situation and, alongside other musicians, signed a letter to the Russian president Vladimir Putin demanding the release of the imprisoned band.
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Kate Nash is a supporter of the LGBT community and has a large LGBT following, especially lesbians.
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Kate Nash described her 2010 song "I've Got a Secret" as "an anti-homophobic rant".
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Kate Nash began dating Ryan Jarman in 2007, frontman of The Cribs, after meeting while they were both guests on an episode of the music television programme Later.
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In 2008, following intensive touring, Kate Nash had what she described as a "proper breakdown", including a relapse of the mild OCD which she had experienced as a child.
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Kate Nash has been open about her mental health problems and struggles with anxiety.
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Kate Nash became a vegan in 2017, having been a vegetarian since 2009.
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Kate Nash's decision was prompted by watching the film Okja.
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On 20 February 2008, Kate Nash received a Brit Award for Best Female Artist.