Biography
Katherine Elizabeth Vernon (born April 21, 1961) is a Canadian-born American actress. She is known for her roles as Lorraine Prescott on the CBS Primetime soap opera Falcon Crest (from 1984–1985), the stuck-up and popular Benny Hanson in the comedy film Pretty in Pink (1986), Sophia in the 1992 Spike Lee film, Malcolm X, and Ellen Tigh in the 2004 Syfy series Battlestar Galactica.
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Complete Filmography

A Gettysburg Christmas
2023
as Caroline
When Hope gives up on relationships and Christmas, it takes a Christmas miracle in the form of Charley to help mend her heart, trust again, realize th...

Meet the Killer Parents
2023
A young woman fights to escape her boyfriend’s wealthy family after learning they’re planning to drug and groom her to replace their long-dead daughte...

Anniversary Nightmare
2019
as Barbara
Liz and Andrew are on their anniversary trip in Hawaii when Liz wakes up to discover her husband missing and evidence of an invasion all around her. B...

His Master's Voice
2018
as Camille
A Hungarian journalist who is about to start a family journeys to the United States in the hopes of finding his own father, a scientist who went missi...

Groomzilla
2018
as Olivia
After four years of courting, Alyssa and Tucker are about to tie the knot. However, suddenly the usually easy going Tucker becomes obsessed with every...

Valentina's Wedding
2018
as Melanie Tate
Valentina's seemingly idyllic life in the US is interrupted when planning a wedding means introducing her fiancé to her scandalous family in Mexico.

Amelia 2.0
2017
as Dr. Ellen Beckett
After his wife Amelia suffers an aneurysm that leaves her bedridden and slowly dying, police officer Carter Summerland searches for a way to revive he...

Chicanery
2017
as Billie Endicott
Darren Flare is an Emmy Award-winning, slightly dim newscaster, who is about to stumble on the story of the decade: the capture of the FBI's most want...

A Christmas Truce
2015
as Helena
During a shaky 24-hour holiday truce amid the Battle of the Bulge, American Captain John Myers and a Belgian farm girl, Alina, fall in love. Forced to...

108 Stitches
2014
as President Jennine Wormer Pratt
With baseball being the last thing on these player's minds, and dealing with one of the longest losing streaks in college history, the team of misfits...

Prelude to Axanar
2014
as Captain Sonya Alexander
Prelude to Axanar is a short film that will give viewers a historical look at the events leading up to the Battle of Axanar, the central event of the ...

Battledogs
2013
as Dr. Ellen Gordon
When a strange werewolf virus threatens to decimate first New York and then the world, a rogue general uses the disease to create an army of super-sol...

Red Faction: Origins
2011
as The Matriarch
In the year 2125, Alec Mason led the Martian Colonies to freedom in the hit action game Red Faction: Guerrilla. Now, Syfy and THQ are teaming up to co...

National Lampoon's Snatched
2011
as Diane
A nice guy goes into the hospital for surgery and through a series of mishaps suffers every man's worst nightmare.

The Last Song
2010
as Susan Blakelee
A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music,...

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
2009
as Ellen Tigh
When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) ...

Last Chance Cafe
2006
as Hallie Boyer
After uncovering evidence that her stepfather was murdered by her D.A. ex-husband and a ring of corrupt cops, a young woman is forced to flee with her...

Knights of the South Bronx
2005
as Pat
A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to p...

Confession
2005
as Detective Robin Mallory
In a small Catholic boarding school an unspeakable act has been committed. When High School student, Luther Scott, confesses to Father Michael Kelly, ...

School of Life
2005
as Elli Warner
At Fallbrook Middle School, the annual student-elected Teacher of the Year award is held. And every year for the last 43 years Norman Warner or most f...

Family Plan
2005
as Victoria
Charlie MacKenzie is an ambitious young career woman who stretches the truth in a job interview by professing to be married with a family. But her lit...

Buds For Life
2004
as Valerie Quinlan
This story follows four friends transplanted from New York to Los Angeles to follow thier acting dreams. The four get distracted in four very differen...
Grave Matters
2004
as Christine
Fed up with the constant abuse she suffers at the hands of the men in her life, Christine (Kate Vernon) is driven to desperate measures and begins kil...

Wilder Days
2003
as Dorothy Morse
Quixotic old codger James "Pop Up" Morse (Peter Falk) enjoys spinning colorful yarns for his 11-year-old grandson, Chris (Josh Hutcherson). But the bo...

Y2K
1999
as Alix Cromwell
It's millennium eve. At the stroke of midnight, the Y2K computer bug kicks in, causing widespread chaos in the U.S.

The Secret Life of Girls
1999
as Kay (Age 40)
15-year-old Natalie, confused to begin with, finds out about her father's affair with one of his students. Refusing to simply stand by and watch her f...

Blackjack
1998
as Dr. Rachel Stein
After saving Casey, a daughter of his friend, from hired assassins, Jack Devlin is hit with a strange phobia - fear of white color. But when his other...

Flood: A River's Rampage
1997
as Pat Mallory
After heavy rain, the Mississippi is breaking it's banks flooding small towns. Richard Thomas and Kate Vernon realise their town is next on the hit li...
Joe's Wedding
1996
as Uta Mann
Joe loves to rock and be wild, but the time has come for him to settle down. He is to marry a conservative daughter of a well-to-do man. On his weddin...

Downdraft
1996
as Alexa
Only Special Forces agent Jack Slater and his computer programming sidekick can save the world from Armageddon when the supercomputer masterminding Am...

Bloodknot
1995
as Kaye
A grieving family opens its household to an unknown woman who claims to have been their dearly departed's girlfriend.

The Sister-in-Law
1995
as Rae Phillips / Sally Preston / Kelly Richards
A man finally meets his daughter-in-law for the first time when his son tragically dies. He and the rest of the family like her, but she has a deadly ...

Soft Deceit
1995
as Anne Fowler
An attractive cop is assigned the task of tracing millions of dollars of stolen church funds. The thief, is locked up in prison, and the plan is to br...

Probable Cause
1994
as Lynn Reilly
A series of cop murders plagues the city. The remaining officers on the force are increasingly worried as the deaths increase with no leads. As the de...

Dangerous Touch
1994
as Amanda Grace
A promiscuous radio sex therapist is dragged into blackmail by a young hustler.

House of Secrets
1993
as Laura Morrell
Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. She forms a plan with her husband's former lover to kill him. However, the outcome turns...

Cyber Eden
1992
as Prudence
Gloria Ruckhauser has a dream: rediscovering the figure and features of herself when she was 20. Convinced that science is getting nowhere in the sear...

Malcolm X
1992
as Sophia
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he b...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
1991
as Terry Weidner
David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a charity gala for disabled children. Also there is Perry a...

Daughters of Privilege
1991
as Diana
A Florida newspaper owner's daughter gets involved with her father's archrival who uses this to bring down his business.

Mob Story
1989
as Mindy
On the run from a U.S. Senate investigation, New York mob boss Don Luciano flees to his Canadian hometown and old flame Dolores in this kooky, disorga...

Hostile Takeover
1989
as Sally
A man takes three co-workers hostage while working overtime on Thanksgiving weekend. He has no demands.

Banter
1986
as Brent Holliday
An alcoholic partier becomes a paranoid maniac when a manuscript that predicts real-life horrors takes possession of his mind.

Pretty in Pink
1986
as Benny Hanson
Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, wh...

Roadhouse 66
1984
as Melissa Duran
Beckman driving a '55 Thunderbird on Route 66 hooks up with Johnny after hoodlum Hoot and his gang shoot his car. Continuous conflicts between Hoot an...

Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac
1984
as Donna Adams
Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac is a true story based on the crash of Air Florida flight 90 on January 13, 1982 in Washington D.C. This movie follo...

Alphabet City
1984
as Angie
A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters.

Chained Heat
1983
as Cellmate
Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after driving drunk and killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming w...