Kate Maberly
Birth name
Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly
Born
March 14, 1982 (1982-03-14) (age 26)
Genre(s)
Rock, Folk, Pop, Acoustic, Alternative
Instrument(s)
Guitar, Cello, Piano, Vocals
Years active
1991–present
Website
http://www.katemaberly.co.uk/
Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly (born 14 March 1982) is an English actress and musician (playing piano and cello, singing, and writing music). She has appeared in film, television, radio and on stage.
Maberly was born in Surrey, England. She is the daughter of an attorney and one of five children; her older sister Polly is an actress as well. She has two older brothers Thomas and Guy, and one younger brother Jack.
Maberly joined a swimming team when she was 5 years old, and was a county champion swimmer up to the age of 16. She represented her county in tennis from the age of 12, and since 2000 has won various tennis club leagues in London.
Maberly skipped a year of school, and graduated from London's Trinity College of Music in 2004 with a joint honours degree in piano and cello performance.
Her breakthrough role came in 1993 when, at the age of ten, she starred as Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden. This internationally acclaimed performance paved the way for several subsequent leading roles, including Ira in the 1995 movie Friendship's Field, the blind girl Dinah Bellman in the 1995 movie The Langoliers, and Vanessa in the 1997 BBC TV Drama Mothertime.
Since The Secret Garden, Maberly has also gone on to roles in the 1996 miniseries Gulliver's Travels starring Ted Danson, costarring as the granddaughter of Omar Sharif's character in the 1998 IMAX film Mysteries of Egypt, and as the actress who plays Wendy Darling in the 2004 film Finding Neverland. In early 2007, she appeared in two feature films, the Australian/UK thriller Like Minds, and the British teen comedy Popcorn. Kate recently filmed Boogeyman 3, set for a summer 2009 release on DVD.
She has performed voice-overs for Ordynek, Bringing the Pride of Poland to Texas in 2000, and for The Braniff Pages in 2001. She has completed several radio works for BBC Radio 4, including The Dorabella Variation, A Certain Smile, and National Velvet. Maberly's narration of the audio book Catherine Called Birdy, written by Karen Cushman, received an Audie Award in 1995. More recently, Maberly teamed up with a London area music producer to record several of her own songs for a new EP.
Maberly demonstrated her musical abilities playing the piano in the 1995 BBC drama Mothertime, and playing the cello in the 2004 short film The Audition. She recorded several of her own songs for an EP available in summer of '08.
She also produced and co-directed a music video for Blooq a.k.a Triggerbox.
Maberly has won two professional awards:
