Catherine Holman
Encyclopedia
Catherine Holman is an English actress. She trained at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London.
She made her theatre début as Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird
opposite Alan Dobie
at the Mermaid Theatre
. This was followed by the role of Flora in The Innocents
at The Mill at Sonning
, Laurie in Brighton Beach Memoirs
at Library Theatre and Charlie Pringle in Postman Pat
s Special Delivery.
Catherine played the role of Helen Keller
opposite Jenny Seagrove
in Bill Kenwright
s Production of The Miracle Worker
, a National Tour before transferring to the Comedy Theatre and then the Wyndhams Theatre, West End
.
Other credits include the role of Rose in Dancelands at the Old Red Lion Theatre
, Islington; Flora in The Innocents
at the Haymarket Theatre
in Basingstoke; Sarah in a film short by Sean Rogg All the King's Horses; Jackie in The Ghostbusters of East Finchley for BBC
Television; Poppy in Agatha Christie
s The Pale Horse for Anglia Television; Alice in Wilderness for Carlton Television; Becky in A Little Princess
at Manchester Library Theatre; Pony in Approaching Zanzibar at Southwark Playhouse
; Charlotte in Tongue of a Bird at the Almeida Theatre
and Alice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
at Chester Gateway Theatre
.
Catherine's most recent credits include the role of Avril in Semi-Detached
at Chichester Festival Theatre
and Lucy Turner in Peak Practice
(series 9 & 10) for Carlton Television.
Avril Hadfield in Semi Detached, Chichester Festival Theatre
(1999)
Charlotte in Tongue Of A Bird, Almeida Theatre
(1997)
Pony in Approaching Zanzibar, Southwark Playhouse
(1997)
Flora in The Innocents
, Haymarket Theatre
(1995)
Rose in Danceland, Old Red Lion Theatre
(1994)
Helen Keller
in The Miracle Worker
, Comedy Theatre (1994)
Laurie in Brighton Beach Memoirs
, Manchester Library Theatre (1991)
Flora in The Innocents
, The Mill at Sonning
(1990)
Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird
, Mermaid Theatre
(1989).
Lucy Turner in Peak Practice
(2000)
Young Alice in Wilderness (1996)
Poppy in Agatha Christie
s The Pale Horse (1996)
Michelle in Cone Zone (1996)
Jackie in The Ghostbusters Of East Finchley (1995)
Janice in From The Top (1986)
She made her theatre début as Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature...
opposite Alan Dobie
Alan Dobie
Alan Russell Dobie , is a British actor.Dobie was born in Wombwell, Yorkshire, England, to George Russell and Sarah Kate Dobie. His father was a mining engineer and his mother's family were farmers. He was married to actress Rachel Roberts from 1955-61 then married Maureen Scott in 1963...
at the Mermaid Theatre
Mermaid Theatre
The Mermaid Theatre was a theatre at Puddle Dock, in Blackfriars, in the City of London and the first built there since the time of Shakespeare...
. This was followed by the role of Flora in The Innocents
The Innocents (play)
The Innocents is a 1976 play written by William Archiblad. The show opened at the Morosco Theatre on October 21, 1976 and closed on October 30, 1976 after 12 performances.-Setting:...
at The Mill at Sonning
The Mill at Sonning
The Mill at Sonning is a theatre and restaurant , converted from an 18th century flour mill, on an island in the River Thames at Sonning Eye in the English county of Oxfordshire....
, Laurie in Brighton Beach Memoirs
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon, the first chapter in what is known as his Eugene trilogy. It precedes Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound.-Characters:*Eugene Morris Jerome, almost 15...
at Library Theatre and Charlie Pringle in Postman Pat
Postman Pat
Postman Pat is a British stop-motion animated children's television series first produced by Woodland Animations. It is aimed at pre-school children, and concerns the adventures of Pat Clifton, a postman in the fictional village of Greendale .Postman Pat's first 13-episode season was screened on...
s Special Delivery.
Catherine played the role of Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree....
opposite Jenny Seagrove
Jenny Seagrove
Jennifer Ann Seagrove is an English actress. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and rose to fame playing the lead in a TV dramatisation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance and the 1983 film Local Hero...
in Bill Kenwright
Bill Kenwright
Bill Kenwright CBE is a leading West End theatre producer and film producer.He is also the Chairman of Everton Football Club, an English professional football club from the city of Liverpool....
s Production of The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker is a cycle of 20th century dramatic works derived from Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life. Each of the various dramas describes the relationship between Keller—a deafblind and initially almost feral child—and Anne Sullivan, the teacher who introduced her to...
, a National Tour before transferring to the Comedy Theatre and then the Wyndhams Theatre, West End
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
.
Other credits include the role of Rose in Dancelands at the Old Red Lion Theatre
Old Red Lion Theatre
The Old Red Lion Theatre is a fringe theatre, situated above a pub at The Angel, in the London Borough of Islington.It was founded in 1948 as the Old Red Lion Theatre Club.-Construction:...
, Islington; Flora in The Innocents
The Innocents (play)
The Innocents is a 1976 play written by William Archiblad. The show opened at the Morosco Theatre on October 21, 1976 and closed on October 30, 1976 after 12 performances.-Setting:...
at the Haymarket Theatre
Haymarket Theatre
The Theatre Royal Haymarket is a West End theatre in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use...
in Basingstoke; Sarah in a film short by Sean Rogg All the King's Horses; Jackie in The Ghostbusters of East Finchley for BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
Television; Poppy in Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
s The Pale Horse for Anglia Television; Alice in Wilderness for Carlton Television; Becky in A Little Princess
A Little Princess
A Little Princess is a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a revised and expanded version of Burnett's 1888 serialized novel entitled Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School, which was published in St. Nicholas Magazine.According to Burnett, she...
at Manchester Library Theatre; Pony in Approaching Zanzibar at Southwark Playhouse
Southwark Playhouse
-History:Southwark Playhouse Theatre Company was founded in 1993 by Juliet Alderdice, Tom Wilson & Mehmet Ergen. They identified the need for a high quality accessible theatre which would also act as a major resource for the community...
; Charlotte in Tongue of a Bird at the Almeida Theatre
Almeida Theatre
The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 seat studio theatre with an international reputation which takes its name from the street in which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre produces a diverse range of drama and holds an annual summer festival of...
and Alice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures...
at Chester Gateway Theatre
Gateway Theatre (Chester)
The Gateway Theatre was a small producing and receiving theatre in the city of Chester, England.The theatre has welcomed many acclaimed performers, including Matthew Kelly, Les Dennis and Dennis Waterman....
.
Catherine's most recent credits include the role of Avril in Semi-Detached
Semi-Detached (play)
Semi-Detached is a play written by David Turner. It was premiered at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry in June 1962 with Leonard Rossiter in the lead role and directed by Tony Richardson....
at Chichester Festival Theatre
Chichester Festival Theatre
Chichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, England, was designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, and opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. Subsequently the smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built nearby in 1989....
and Lucy Turner in Peak Practice
Peak Practice
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time...
(series 9 & 10) for Carlton Television.
Theatre
Catherine Holman's theatre work includes:-Avril Hadfield in Semi Detached, Chichester Festival Theatre
Chichester Festival Theatre
Chichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, England, was designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, and opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. Subsequently the smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built nearby in 1989....
(1999)
Charlotte in Tongue Of A Bird, Almeida Theatre
Almeida Theatre
The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 seat studio theatre with an international reputation which takes its name from the street in which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre produces a diverse range of drama and holds an annual summer festival of...
(1997)
Pony in Approaching Zanzibar, Southwark Playhouse
Southwark Playhouse
-History:Southwark Playhouse Theatre Company was founded in 1993 by Juliet Alderdice, Tom Wilson & Mehmet Ergen. They identified the need for a high quality accessible theatre which would also act as a major resource for the community...
(1997)
Flora in The Innocents
The Innocents (play)
The Innocents is a 1976 play written by William Archiblad. The show opened at the Morosco Theatre on October 21, 1976 and closed on October 30, 1976 after 12 performances.-Setting:...
, Haymarket Theatre
Haymarket Theatre
The Theatre Royal Haymarket is a West End theatre in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use...
(1995)
Rose in Danceland, Old Red Lion Theatre
Old Red Lion Theatre
The Old Red Lion Theatre is a fringe theatre, situated above a pub at The Angel, in the London Borough of Islington.It was founded in 1948 as the Old Red Lion Theatre Club.-Construction:...
(1994)
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree....
in The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker is a cycle of 20th century dramatic works derived from Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life. Each of the various dramas describes the relationship between Keller—a deafblind and initially almost feral child—and Anne Sullivan, the teacher who introduced her to...
, Comedy Theatre (1994)
Laurie in Brighton Beach Memoirs
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon, the first chapter in what is known as his Eugene trilogy. It precedes Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound.-Characters:*Eugene Morris Jerome, almost 15...
, Manchester Library Theatre (1991)
Flora in The Innocents
The Innocents (play)
The Innocents is a 1976 play written by William Archiblad. The show opened at the Morosco Theatre on October 21, 1976 and closed on October 30, 1976 after 12 performances.-Setting:...
, The Mill at Sonning
The Mill at Sonning
The Mill at Sonning is a theatre and restaurant , converted from an 18th century flour mill, on an island in the River Thames at Sonning Eye in the English county of Oxfordshire....
(1990)
Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature...
, Mermaid Theatre
Mermaid Theatre
The Mermaid Theatre was a theatre at Puddle Dock, in Blackfriars, in the City of London and the first built there since the time of Shakespeare...
(1989).
Television
Her TV performances include:-Lucy Turner in Peak Practice
Peak Practice
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time...
(2000)
Young Alice in Wilderness (1996)
Poppy in Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
s The Pale Horse (1996)
Michelle in Cone Zone (1996)
Jackie in The Ghostbusters Of East Finchley (1995)
Janice in From The Top (1986)