Kate McCartney
Kate McCartney | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Notable work | The Katering Show Get Krack!n Deadloch |
| Partner(s) | Sally Rugg (2022–present; engaged) |
| Children | 1 |
| Comedy career | |
| Medium | Stand-up comedian, writer, actor, illustrator |
| Genres | observational comedy, character comedy, parody and satire |
Kate McCartney is an Australian comedian, writer, actor and illustrator. She is a frequent collaborator with Kate McLennan, which has led to their being dubbed the Kates.
Early and personal life
[edit | edit source]She was born in Perth, moved to Sydney but grew up in Camberwell, Victoria. She later moved to the Melbourne suburb Preston and had a daughter, Millie, in early 2015.[1][2][3] In 2022, she became engaged to Sally Rugg.[4]
Career
[edit | edit source]McCartney worked as a comedian and also worked in animation. Her television writing credits have included Big Bite, Hamish & Andy, Adam Hills Tonight and Spicks and Specks.[5]
She met Kate McLennan in 2011 after McLennan voiced a character in an animation for her.[6] Due to the number of subsequent collaborations with McLennan, the pair have been dubbed the Kates in the media.[7]
McCartney co-created the web series Bleak with McLennan in 2010, about being a single 30-something, which won the Kit Denton Disfellowship for Courage and Excellence in Performance Writing at the 2011 AWGIE Awards, worth A$30,000.[8]
With McLennan, she created a cooking-based web series called The Katering Show which screened initially on their YouTube channel in 2014. A second season of The Katering Show was screened on the ABC TV and then on ABC iview in 2016.[9][10]
In 2017, McCartney collaborated with McLennan for ABC Television to create the comedy Get Krack!n, in which they played breakfast show television presenters.[11]
In 2021, they created Slushy, a workplace comedy set in the Australian Antarctic research base, that was available as a podcast on Audible.[12]
McCartney and McLennan wrote the 2023 Amazon Prime Video series Deadloch starring Kate Box,[13] which garnered positive reviews,[14] and won McCartney a Best Television Script Writing Award and Box a Best Actress Award, at the AACTA Awards in February 2024.[15][16]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Living people
- Australian LGBTQ broadcasters
- Australian women comedians
- Australian stand-up comedians
- Australian television personalities
- Australian women television personalities
- Australian television writers
- Australian actresses
- Australian bisexual entertainers
- Australian bisexual women
- Australian bisexual writers
- 21st-century Australian actresses
- 21st-century Australian comedians
- 21st-century Australian LGBTQ people
- Comedians from Perth, Western Australia
- Comedians from Melbourne