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Katharine Isabelle Profile |
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Birth Date: March 10, 1982
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Birth Place: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Birth Name: Katharine Isabelle Murray
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Height: 5'6"
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Biography |
Katharine Isabelle is a Canadian
actress. Though best known for her portrayal of Ginger in
Ginger Snaps, she has appeared in many, mostly Canadian, and
American movies, and TV series episodes from an early age.
Isabelle was born Katherine Murray in Vancouver, British
Columbia. Her father, Graeme Murray, is an art director &
production designer for film and television who has won two
Emmys for his work on The X-Files. Her mother, Gail Murray,
is an amateur Vancouver writer/producer. Former child actor,
and journalist Joshua Murray is her brother.
Isabelle and Emily Perkins (Ginger Snaps) were born in the
same hospital, went to the same pre-school, elementary and
private schools, and are at the same agency.
Isabelle's career began in 1988, in the movie Cousins
(1989), starring Ted Danson and Isabella Rossellini. Though
not a box office hit, her most successful work by far is
Ginger Snaps (2000) in which she co-starred with Emily
Perkins; but tour de force to date, (and the work she is
most proud of) was in the 2001 indie movie Turning Paige,
alongside Nicholas Campbell. The film, despite critical
acclaim, went without commercial release.
2002 included supporting roles in the remake of Carrie (TVM)
as Tina Blake, and a minor role in Insomnia. In 2003,
further supporting roles in the minor indy On The Corner (no
commercial release), and in the form of Gibb in the dire
Freddy vs. Jason, which Isabelle hated, making her
disappointment with the movie known before its release. At
the end of the year there was a major role in Falling Angels
(no commercial release). 2004 brought the supporting role of
Amber in the earnest The Life (TVM), followed by a lead role
in The Last Casino (TVM), and in the (limited release) indy
thriller Show Me. Making a belated addition to the original
in 2004 were the Ginger Snaps sequels: Ginger Snaps 2:
Unleashed (in which Isabelle took a minor role), and Ginger
Snaps Back: The Beginning, made back-to-back on a sorely
limited budget. Isabelle had to be cajoled into
participating in them.[citation needed] Her reticence would
prove well founded as GS2 bombed at the box office, and GS
Back went straight to video.
Her reticence didn't extend to refusing Al Pacino's
(Insomnia) advice regarding stage work. Isabelle would make
her theatre debut in Toronto in September 2004 with Marcello
Cabezas and Jason Lewis in a critically poorly received
adaptation of Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth, a minor
work of very little moment.
2006 included Eight Days To Live (TVM) and Engaged To Kill
(TVM), relatively minor works, neither of which would be
well received by critics; 2007 following in much the same
vein with two small guest appearances in Supernatural, and
supporting roles in two (unreleased) TV movies. |
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Other
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Katharine refuses to do nude scenes, and has had a body
double for every instance where such a scene exists,
including the bed and shower scenes in Freddy vs. Jason
(2003), the rising from the bed scene in Ginger Snaps Back:
The Beginning (2004), and the bed scene in Engaged to Kill
(2006) (TV), to name but three. The same woman body-doubled
the latter two.
She said that when she went to a pharmacy after a day of
shooting Ginger Snaps (2000), the people thought she'd been
beaten up since she was still covered in fake blood.
Was originally asked to audition to play "Lori" in Freddy
vs. Jason (2003), but when she arrived, director Ronny Yu
asked her to audition for the role of "Gibb", claiming she
would better suit a more liberal role. Katharine reluctantly
accepted. Yu failed to tell her she would be expected to do
the nude scenes, which would spark friction between the two
during shooting when she made it clear she would not do the
nude scenes.
Sister of former child actor, and journalist Joshua Murray.
Daughter of Graeme Murray and Gail Murray. |
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since January 18, 2008