Biography
Aikaterini Hadjipateras (Greek: Αικατερίνη Χατζηπατέρας; born 9 April 1957), known professionally as Kathryn Hunter, is an American-born British actress and theatre director. An associate at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, in film and television she is known for her roles as Arabella Figg in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Eedy Karn in the Disney+ Star Wars series Andor (2022-present), and the Three Witches in The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021).
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Complete Filmography

Hedda
2025
as Bertie
Stuck in a loveless marriage, the ambitious Hedda Gabler hungers for a life her husband can't provide. When a former flame reappears, her new life beg...

Vicious
2025
A young woman must spend the night fighting for her existence as she slips down a disturbing rabbit hole contained inside a mysterious gift from a lat...

Megalopolis
2024
as Teresa Cicero
Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remain...

The Front Room
2024
as Solange
Everything goes to hell for newly-pregnant Belinda after her mother-in-law moves in. As the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Beli...

Poor Things
2023
as Swiney
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the pr...

The Pod Generation
2023
as Post Office Clerk
In a not-so-distant future, couples can share pregnancy on a more equal footing via detachable artificial wombs. While botanist Alvy has doubts about ...

Inland
2023
as Eliza 'Lizzie' Heron
A young man, of Romani descent, returns to his hometown of Gloucester. He is met by local garage mechanic, Dunleavy. They embrace, smiling. But what p...

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
2023
as Janina
Based on Nobel Prize winning author Olga Tokarczuk’s novel of the same name, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a new work for theatre conc...

The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021
as Witches / Old Man
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurre...

Until The Lions
2020
as Voice-over
In this partial adaptation of poet Karthika Naïr’s award-winning book Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata, an original reworking of the epic ...

RSC Live: Timon of Athens
2019
as Timon
Timon has it all – money, influence, friends. Surely it can’t last? When the money runs out, Timon soon finds her influence and friends have also gon...

Beckett by Brook
2018
as Self
With hindsight, we can see exactly how wrong the labels given to Samuel Beckett have been, since it has been said that his writing was sad, negative a...

Tale of Tales
2015
as Witch
The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomon...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
2014
as Puck
A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.

Inside/Outside
2012
as Self
Truth becomes the source of creativity; actions are a result of being, not thinking. This film, INSIDE/OUTSIDE is based upon Monika’s processes over m...

Kafka's Monkey
2009
as Red Peter, The Ape
Kafka’s Monkey is based on ‘A Report to an Academy’, a story by Franz Kafka in which an ape, Red Peter, gives a lecture about his transformation from ...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Arabella Figg
Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Le...

All or Nothing
2002
as Cécile
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, ...

Simon Magus
1999
as Grandmother
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid ...
Girls' Night
1998
as Nurse
Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she'...
Wet and Dry
1997
The heroine is a mummy, possibly of an Egyptian princess or goddess, who in former times was executed for sacrilegous adultery and is now condemned to...

Grushko
1994
as Dr Sopova
A restaurant is fire-bombed, a TV journalist and a member of a local mafia are murdered, and a valuable statuette is stolen. Yevgeni Grushko is Head o...

The Baby of Mâcon
1993
as The Second Midwife
Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gi...

Maria's Child
1993
as Margarita Guzman
Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the fa...

Orlando
1992
as Countess
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to sat...