1. Kate O'Mara appeared as Jackie Stone in two episodes of the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous and as Virginia O'Kane in four episodes of the prison drama Bad Girls.
17 Facts About Kate O'Mara
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Kate O'Mara made her stage debut in a production of The Merchant of Venice in 1963, although her first film role was some years earlier in Home and Away with Jack Warner, as her father, and Kathleen Harrison.
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Kate O'Mara had a regular role in the BBC drama series The Brothers as Jane Maxwell, and in the early 1980s, O'Mara starred in the BBC soap opera Triangle, sometimes counted among the worst television series ever made.
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Kate O'Mara played the villainous Rani in Doctor Who in two serials, The Mark of the Rani and Time and the Rani, and in the Doctor Who 30th anniversary spoof Dimensions in Time, part of the Children in Need charity event.
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Kate O'Mara disliked living in California, preferring the change of seasons in Britain, and to her relief was released from her five-year contract after Collins told the producers that having two brunettes in the series was a bad idea.
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Kate O'Mara spoke on several occasions about her experience with the casting couch.
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Kate O'Mara continued to make television appearances throughout the 1990s, including Cluedo, and playing Jackie Stone in two episodes of Absolutely Fabulous.
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Kate O'Mara continued to perform on stage and in March 2008 she played Marlene Dietrich in a stage play entitled Lunch with Marlene.
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In 2012, Kate O'Mara appeared in a theatre adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile.
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Kate O'Mara was married twice, first to Jeremy Young in 1971; the couple divorced in 1976.
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Kate O'Mara had two sons, Dickon Young, both from previous relationships.
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Christopher, from whom Kate O'Mara was long estranged, was the son of actor David Orchard.
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Kate O'Mara was found hanged, a presumed suicide, at the family home in Long Marston, Warwickshire, on 31 December 2012, after previous suicide attempts.
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Kate O'Mara was in hospital with pneumonia at the time of her son's death and his body was not discovered for three weeks.
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Kate O'Mara wrote two autobiographical books, Vamp Until Ready and Game Plan: A Woman's Survival Kit.
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Kate O'Mara said she appreciated men with a sense of humor.
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Kate O'Mara died on 30 March 2014 in a Sussex nursing home, aged 74, from ovarian cancer.