Kate Nelligan

Kate Nelligan

1950-03-16 London, Ontario, Canada 51 Credits

Biography

Patricia Colleen "Kate" Nelligan (born March 16, 1951) is a Canadian stage, film and television actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kate Nelligan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Premonition

Premonition

2007

as Joanne

6.3
Acting

A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at h...

In from the Night

In from the Night

2006

as Vera Miller

6.7
Acting

Vicki Miller is a writer who has cut herself off from her dysfunctional family. Her life drastically changes when one night, her 16-year-old nephew Bo...

Revisiting Brideshead

Revisiting Brideshead

2005

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".

A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time

2003

as Mrs. Which

6.2
Acting

Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment....

Walter and Henry

Walter and Henry

2001

as Elizabeth

8.5
Acting

Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot. When Walter has a ...

Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111

Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111

2000

as Kate O'Rourke

3.7
Acting

A sensitive and realistic portrayal of the families' grief after the devastating crash of Swissair flight 111, in which all 229 passengers and crew we...

The Cider House Rules

The Cider House Rules

1999

as Olive Worthington

7.1
Acting

Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer...

Swing Vote

Swing Vote

1999

as Justice Sara Marie Brandwynne

5.6
Acting

A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious...

Love Is Strange

Love Is Strange

1999

as Kathryn McClain

Acting

As the closest-guarded secrets of a troubled family gradually begin to emerge from the shadows, a desperate mother struggles to bring the ones she lov...

Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl

1998

as Mrs. Jones

Acting

Angelina is a shy and whimsical Italian waitress who has moved from Italy to Canada to fulfill a family vow by marrying a man she's not in love with. ...

Stolen Moments

Stolen Moments

1998

as Narrator (voice)

0.8
Acting

A documentary history of lesbianism in North American and Europe, with historic references, archival material, film clips, interviews with many women ...

U.S. Marshals

U.S. Marshals

1998

as Walsh

6.5
Acting

U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes....

Calm at Sunset

Calm at Sunset

1996

as Margaret Pfeiffer

5.6
Acting

Drama about a young man who defies his parents by dropping out of college to pursue his dream of owning a fishing boat, following in the footsteps of ...

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

1996

as Elizabeth Mink

3.8
Acting

James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excell...

Up Close & Personal

Up Close & Personal

1996

as Joanna Kennelly

6.3
Acting

Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tap...

How to Make an American Quilt

How to Make an American Quilt

1995

as Constance Saunders

6.4
Acting

Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits ...

Margaret's Museum

Margaret's Museum

1995

as Catherine MacNeil

6.6
Acting

In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets ...

A Mother's Prayer

A Mother's Prayer

1995

as Sheila Walker

8.5
Acting

Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to beli...

Into the Deep

Into the Deep

1994

as Narrator

5.1
Acting

An underwater exploration beneath kelp forests in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California. The film captures the birth of a shark, squi...

Wolf

Wolf

1994

as Charlotte Randall

6.1
Acting

Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a ...

Spoils of War

Spoils of War

1994

as Elise

1.5
Acting

In 1970s New York, Martin (Maguire) hopes to locate his father and possibly reunite the parents who have been bitterly separated since he was born.

By Woman's Hand

By Woman's Hand

1994

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Acting

In 1920 a group of young Montreal women artists formed the nucleus of what would later become known as the Beaver Hall Hill Group. Members recount how...

Fatal Instinct

Fatal Instinct

1993

as Lana Ravine

5.4
Acting

Ned Ravine is a police officer and lawyer who occasionally defends the delinquents he arrests. He crosses paths with seductive Lola Cain during an ass...

Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story

Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story

1993

as Stephanie Chadford

3.3
Acting

A client's claims of incest cause an attorney to remember the traumas she suffered when she was a sexually abused child. Instead of debilitating her, ...

Liar, Liar

Liar, Liar

1993

as Susan Miori

6.0
Acting

The true story of an eleven year old girl who has a reputation for telling tall tales. So when she accuses her father of molesting her, will anybody b...

The Diamond Fleece

The Diamond Fleece

1992

5.0
Acting

Jeweller Phillippe Golden purchases one of the largest diamonds ever from an auction. Diamond thief Rick Dunne is released from prison to consult in c...

Heritage Minutes: Emily Murphy

Heritage Minutes: Emily Murphy

1992

as Emily Murphy

Acting

Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.

Terror Stalks the Class Reunion

Terror Stalks the Class Reunion

1992

as Kay

4.2
Acting

A beautiful young detective goes to the rescue of a teacher kidnapped by a former student.

The Prince of Tides

The Prince of Tides

1991

as Lila Wingo Newbury

6.6
Acting

A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the p...

Shadows and Fog

Shadows and Fog

1991

as Eve

6.7
Acting

With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

Old Times

Old Times

1991

5.0
Acting

The scene is a fashionably remodeled farmhouse in the countryside somewhere beyond London, where a prosperous and urbane couple are entertaining the w...

Frankie and Johnny

Frankie and Johnny

1991

as Cora

6.8
Acting

When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fl...

White Room

White Room

1990

as Jane

5.0
Acting

Norm, an aimless writer, witnesses the murder of rock video star Madelaine X and feels guilty, as he did nothing to prevent it. At Madelaine’s funeral...

Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher

Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher

1989

as JoAnn Thatcher

7.0
Acting

Narcissistic Saskatchewan Tory politician Colin Thatcher is engaged in a bitter divorce from his wife Jo-Ann. When a series of court rulings over the ...

Kojak: The Price of Justice

Kojak: The Price of Justice

1987

as Kitty

4.2
Acting

When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious suspect, particularly with her scandalous past. But ...

Control

Control

1987

as Sarah Howell

5.5
Acting

An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long ...

Eleni

Eleni

1985

as Eleni

5.9
Acting

Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in...

Without a Trace

Without a Trace

1983

as Susan Selky

5.4
Acting

English professor Susan Selky lives alone in a Brooklyn apartment with her young son, Alex. When Alex fails to return home from school one afternoon, ...

Victims

Victims

1982

as Ruth Hession

5.3
Acting

A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin ...

Eye of the Needle

Eye of the Needle

1981

as Lucy

6.7
Acting

Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of v...

Mr. Patman

Mr. Patman

1981

as Peabody

4.5
Acting

Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.

Dreams of Leaving

Dreams of Leaving

1980

as Charlotte

7.0
Acting

William came to work in Fleet Street in 1971. London meant girls, as many girls as he could find. Then he met Caroline and so it began, that very stra...

Dracula

Dracula

1979

as Lucy Seward

6.4
Acting

Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seek...

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

1979

as Isabella

6.0
Acting

When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sente...

Licking Hitler

Licking Hitler

1978

as Anna Seaton

Acting

1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But te...

Do as I Say

Do as I Say

1977

as Hilary

Acting

A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbours and her parent...

Bethune

Bethune

1977

as Frances Bethune

5.7
Acting

Based on the true story of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune, this film traces his life from his beginnings with his deeply religious family in Ontario, ...

The Lady of the Camellias

The Lady of the Camellias

1976

as Marguerite Gautier

Acting

The doomed love story between Marguerite Gautier, a French courtesan frequented by high-class gentlemen, who is suffering from tuberculosis, and a you...

The Count of Monte-Cristo

The Count of Monte-Cristo

1975

as Mercédès

6.8
Acting

A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend...

The Romantic Englishwoman

The Romantic Englishwoman

1975

as Isabel

5.5
Acting

A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going ...

The Arcata Promise

The Arcata Promise

1974

as Laura

Acting

A down on his luck actor is haunted by his failed career and the promise he made to a young girl he loved but couldn’t keep thanks to his abusive and ...