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Georgina Cates is a Actor British born on 14 january 1975 at Colchester (United-kingdom)
Georgina Cates (born 14 January 1975) is an English film and television actress.
In 1995, Cates (then still known as Clare Woodgate) applied for the role of Stella in the film An Awfully Big Adventure but didn't get the role. She returned home, dyed her hair red, and re-invented herself as a 17-year-old Liverpudlian girl called Georgina Cates who had no previous acting experience. When she re-applied for the same role, the casting director hired her.
Cates went on to co-star in such films as Frankie Starlight (1995), Illuminata (1998), and A Soldier's Sweetheart (1998). She received critical acclaim for her role as Amanda in the Clay Pigeons (1998) with Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix. After a seven-year break from the movie industry, Cates returned to the independent film genre to co-star in Sinner, for which she won a Best Actress award at the Brooklyn Arts Council International Film & Video Festival.
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Birth name Clare Woodgate
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 14 january 1975 (49 years) at Colchester (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 14 january 1975 (49 years) at Colchester (United-kingdom)
Biography
Born in Colchester, Essex, she attended Colchester County High School for Girls and broke into television acting when she was only sixteen years old, playing the role of the original Jenny Porter on the BBC's 2point4 children. After two series she left the show to concentrate on acting in television drama such as Casualty and The Bill and in low-budget films.In 1995, Cates (then still known as Clare Woodgate) applied for the role of Stella in the film An Awfully Big Adventure but didn't get the role. She returned home, dyed her hair red, and re-invented herself as a 17-year-old Liverpudlian girl called Georgina Cates who had no previous acting experience. When she re-applied for the same role, the casting director hired her.
Cates went on to co-star in such films as Frankie Starlight (1995), Illuminata (1998), and A Soldier's Sweetheart (1998). She received critical acclaim for her role as Amanda in the Clay Pigeons (1998) with Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix. After a seven-year break from the movie industry, Cates returned to the independent film genre to co-star in Sinner, for which she won a Best Actress award at the Brooklyn Arts Council International Film & Video Festival.
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Filmography of Georgina Cates (8 films)
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Add to a movie list, 1h32Directed by Jeff Tremaine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies
Actors Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Georgina Cates, Jackson Nicoll, Spike Jonze, Steve-O
Roles Kimmie Zisman
Rating64%
Billy is sitting in the waiting room of a law office. His mom comes out to grab him and tell him they're going to see his grandpa. Irving Zisman is sitting in the waiting room of a hospital, checking out a magazine and looking at the sexual images. A nurse comes in to tell Irving that his wife has died. After a brief moment of silence, Irving starts laughing, overjoyed that his wife is dead. Irving leaves the hospital to get himself off, but unfortunately for him, the massage parlor and strip club are closed. Desperate, he sticks his penis in the slot of a vending machine. That's when he gets himself stuck and starts asking onlookers for help.
Sinner (2007)
, 1h28Origin USA
Themes Films about religion
Actors Nick Chinlund, Georgina Cates, Michael E. Rodgers, Brad Dourif, Tom Wright
Roles Lil
Rating52%
A Catholic priest, Father Anthony Romano (Nick Chinlund), intervenes with the police when his colleague attacks a drifter named Lil (Georgina Cates). When Anthony reluctantly provides her asylum in his rectory, the brash hustler soon discovers a secret he has hidden from his diocese and parish. Through this unlikely muse, Anthony finds a path to regain his honor and calling in a post-scandal world where priests are guilty until proven innocent.
Clay Pigeons (1998)
, 1h44Directed by David Dobkin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn, Janeane Garofalo, Georgina Cates, Gregory Sporleder, Phil Morris
Roles Amanda
Rating65%
Clay Bidwell is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl, kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their affair as if nothing has happened.
Illuminata (1998)
, 1h59Directed by John Turturro
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Christopher Walken, Susan Sarandon, John Turturro, Donal McCann, Beverly D'Angelo, Georgina Cates
Roles Simone
Rating59%
The plot follows the backstage dramas of a theater company in turn of the century New York while it struggles to produce a new work.
Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
Directed by Gary Sinyor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Sean Pertwee, Georgina Cates, Prunella Scales, Peter Ustinov, Samuel West, John Boswall
Roles Emily
Rating60%
England, 1908: Emily Ivory (Cates) is a wealthy young woman who lives with her Aunt Agnes (Scales) at Ivory's End, a large country house. At 22, as her aunt constantly reminds her, she is verging on spinsterhood. She meets her brother's best friend, Cedric Trilling (Portal), when the two come home from university. Aunt Agnes wants the two to fall in love: Cedric, however, is a pompous bore who is overly fond of quoting Homer on all sorts of not-quite-appropriate occasions; also, he's a repressed homosexual. When Emily's aunt sees the sparks failing to fly, she whisks everyone off to Italy, then India, hoping the romantic locations will bring on love.
A Soldier's Sweetheart (1998)
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Kiefer Sutherland, Skeet Ulrich, Georgina Cates, Daniel London, Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.
Roles Marianne Bell
Rating60%
Un médecin de l'Armée apporte sa petite amie de rester avec lui à un hors du chemin Vietnam avant-poste en 1967 , la femme disparaît un jour et il commence à chercher pour elle.
Big City Blues (1997)
, 1h34Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Burt Reynolds, William Forsythe, Giancarlo Esposito, Arye Gross, Georgina Cates, Donovan Leitch
Roles Angela
Rating34%
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
, 1h52Directed by Mike Newell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Films about television, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong, Peter Firth, Carol Drinkwater
Roles Stella
Rating58%
In the film's prologue, a hotelier ushers a child into a bomb shelter during the Liverpool Blitz. We see a brief flashback to a woman leaving her baby in a basement surrounded by flickering candles. Before departing from the house, she quickly drops a string of pearls on the child's pillow, twined around a single rose.