Kate Wilkinson


Kate Wilkinson was an American stage, film and television actress.

Career

She is best known to TV audiences for her roles as Viola Stapleton in the CBS soap opera Guiding Light, a role she played from 1976 to 1981, and Clara Hudson on the NBC soap opera Another World, which she played from 1987 to 1989.
In addition to making many guest appearances in supporting roles on television as well as a number of films, she also was a regular on theatre. Among her stage roles were Mrs. McCollough in 1972-73's Last of Mrs. Lincoln, and Clairee in the original Off-Broadway production of Steel Magnolias in 1987. In 1980, she originated the role of Libby in The Whales of August, which Bette Davis played in the film version. Her last role was a 1990 guest appearance on Law & Order.

Death

Kate Wilkinson died from bone cancer in 1993, aged 76.

Filmography

  1. Edge of Night - Mrs. Perkins
  2. Love is a Many Splendored Thing - Sister Irene
  3. Beyond the Horizon - Kate Mayo
  4. F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'
  5. First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington - Mrs. Chamberlayne
  6. Guiding Light - Viola Stapleton
  7. Last of Mrs. Lincoln - Mrs. McCollough
  8. Diary of the Dead - Ethel Dean
  9. Another World - Mrs. Franklin ; Alice Nixon ; Clara Hudson
  10. A Mistaken Charity - Charlotte
  11. See You in the Morning - Aunt Matilda
  12. ''Law & Order: - Grey-haired lady

    Stage credits

  13. Danton's Death
  14. The Rimers of Eldritch - Martha Truit
  15. Watercolor & Criss-Crossing
  16. Postcards
  17. A Doll's House - Anne Marie
  18. Hedda Gabler
  19. Ring Around the Bathtub - Nurse Sampson
  20. Last of Mrs. Lincoln - Mrs. McCollough
  21. Our Town - Mrs. Gibbs
  22. The Shadow Box
  23. Man and Superman - Mrs. Whitefield
  24. Camino Real - The Gypsy
  25. The Matchmaker - Miss Flora Van
  26. The Man Who Came to Dinner
  27. Frankenstein - Frau Mueller
  28. Rude Times - Mrs. Crystal
  29. A Day in the Death of Joe Egg - Grace
  30. Steel Magnolias - Clairee
  31. Inherit the Wind - Mrs. Brady