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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
Known For
Complete Filmography

Premonition
2007
as Joanne
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
2006
as Vera Miller
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
2005
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".

A Wrinkle in Time
2003
as Mrs. Which
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
2001
as Elizabeth
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
2000
as Kate O'Rourke
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
1999
as Olive Worthington
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
1999
as Justice Sara Marie Brandwynne
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
1999
as Kathryn McClain
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
1998
as Mrs. Jones
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
1998
as Narrator (voice)
A documentary history of lesbianism in North American and Europe, with historic references, archival material, film clips, interviews with many women ...

U.S. Marshals
1998
as Walsh
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
1996
as Margaret Pfeiffer
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
1996
as Elizabeth Mink
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
1996
as Joanna Kennelly
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
1995
as Constance Saunders
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
1995
as Catherine MacNeil
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
1995
as Sheila Walker
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
1994
as Narrator
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
1994
as Charlotte Randall
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
1994
as Elise
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
1994
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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
1993
as Lana Ravine
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
1993
as Stephanie Chadford
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
1993
as Susan Miori
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
1992
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
1992
as Emily Murphy
Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.

Terror Stalks the Class Reunion
1992
as Kay
A beautiful young detective goes to the rescue of a teacher kidnapped by a former student.

The Prince of Tides
1991
as Lila Wingo Newbury
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
1991
as Eve
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

Old Times
1991
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
1991
as Cora
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
1990
as Jane
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
1989
as JoAnn Thatcher
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
1987
as Kitty
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
1987
as Sarah Howell
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
1985
as Eleni
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
1983
as Susan Selky
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
1982
as Ruth Hession
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
1981
as Lucy
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
1981
as Peabody
Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.

Dreams of Leaving
1980
as Charlotte
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
1979
as Lucy Seward
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
1979
as Isabella
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
1978
as Anna Seaton
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
1977
as Hilary
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
1977
as Frances Bethune
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
1976
as Marguerite Gautier
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
1975
as Mercédès
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
1975
as Isabel
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
1974
as Laura
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 ...