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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.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa ( 2013) | IMDb: 6.5

Comedy

86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.

Starring:

Johnny Knoxville , Jackson Nicoll , Georgina Cates , Catherine Keener , Spike Jonze , Kamber Hejlik

Directed by:

Jeff Tremaine

Produced by:

Knate Gwaltney , Jeff Tremaine , Spike Jonze

Clay Pigeons ( 1998) | IMDb: 6.6

Comedy , Crime , Drama , Romance

Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl, kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with the affair. Clay unknowingly befriends a serial killer named Lester Long who murders the widow in an attempt to "help" his "fishing buddy."

Starring:

Joaquin Phoenix , Vince Vaughn , Janeane Garofalo , Scott Wilson , Gregory Sporleder , Georgina Cates

Directed by:

Matias Alvarez , David Dobkin , Michael Hennessey

Produced by:

Carrie Morrow , Chris Dorr , Nigel Sinclair

An Awfully Big Adventure ( 1995) | IMDb: 5.8

Comedy , Drama , Romance

Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.

Starring:

Alan Rickman , Hugh Grant , Georgina Cates , Alun Armstrong , Peter Firth , Prunella Scales

Directed by:

Mike Newell , Laerke Sigfred Pedersen

Produced by:

Philip Hinchcliffe , Susie Figgis , Hilary Dwyer

Georgina Cates Movies: Top 3 Performances by a Successful Actor

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