Georgina Cates
Georgina Cates is an English film and television actress and professional photographer based in the US. Born in Colchester in 1975 as Clare Woodgate, she entered the acting profession under that name and first came to fame at the age of sixteen in the role of Jenny Porter in the BBC sitcom 2 Point 4 Children. After two series, she moved on to appear in guest roles in long-running, popular drama series such as The Bill and Casualty. In 1995, she auditioned for the role of Stella in Mike Nicholls' adaptation of the Beryl Bainbridge novel, An Awfully Big Adventure. When her audition proved unsuccessful, she went away and adopted the name Georgina Cates, pretended to be a seventeen year old novice performer from Liverpool and auditioned again. The result was that she won the role and starred opposite Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman and was nominated for Actress of the Year by the London Critics Circle Film Awards. Now known as Georgina Cates, she went on to star in Frankie Starlight, Stiff Upper Lips, Illuminata and Clay Pigeons. She married Skeet Ulrich in 1997, with whom she had twins. The couple divorced in 2005 and Cates returned to acting two years later with an acclaimed, award winning performance in indie film Sinner. Since then, Cates has appeared on TV in The Closer and in the 2013 Johnny Knoxville film, Bad Grandpa. In recent years she has concentrated on her photography.
Acting
Movie
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
as Kimmie Zisman
2013
TV
The Closer
as Kim Sherman
2005
Movie
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5
as Kimmie
2014
Movie
Clay Pigeons
as Amanda
1998
TV
Casualty
as Emily Russell (as Clare Woodgate)
1986
Movie
An Awfully Big Adventure
as Stella
1995
Movie
Everlasting
as Elaine Insane
2016
Movie
Illuminata
as Simone
1998
TV
2Point4 Children
as Jenny Porter (as Clare Woodgate)
1991
TV
2Point4 Children
as Jenny Porter
1991
Movie
Stiff Upper Lips
as Emily
1998
Movie
Big City Blues
as Angela
1997
Movie
A Soldier's Sweetheart
as Marianne Bell
1998
TV
Screen Two
as Edith
1985
Movie
The Treat
as Mimi
1998
Movie
Sinner
as Lil
2007
Movie
Loving
as Edith
1996
Movie
The Debutante
as Amber (as Clare Woodgate)
1993
Movie
Au Pair
as Susan (as Clare Woodgate)
1994
TV
Ghosts
as Maureen / Young Margaret
1995
Movie
Save Me from the Sound of the Siren
as Madeleine
2016