# Kate Fahy

Kate Fahy, Lady Pryce (born 29 January 1950), is an English actress and director. She is known primarily for playing Patricia in Joanna Hogg's 2010 film Archipelago and playing Stevie in Edward Albee's play The Goat or Who is Sylvia at the Almeida Theatre and the Apollo West End. She has worked extensively in theatre, film and television since 1971.

## Career

Fahy trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She made her theatre debut at the Playhouse Theatre in Liverpool in Ray Cooney's Not Now Darling, followed by two years at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool playing leading roles in The Taming of The Shrew, The Country Wife, Ted Whitehead's The Sea Anchor and Mike Stott's Funny Peculiar. Her television career started soon after with Arthur Hopcraft's series The Nearly Man at Granada, directed by John Irvin. She has since appeared in numerous stage plays, television and feature films both in the UK and the US.
In recent years she has directed three plays, Oliver Cotton's Wet Weather Cover at the Kings Head and Arts Theatre WE, Jean-Claude Carriere's play Little Black Book at Park Theatre, and again at Park Theatre, Alexander Bodin-Saphir's play Rosenbaum's Rescue.
She played Stevie in the first London production of Edward Albee's The Goat, opposite her partner Jonathan Price.

## Personal life

Fahy has been married twice. She met actor Jonathan Pryce in 1972. They had three children, and married in 2015.

## Filmography

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1975 | The Nearly Man | Millie Dutton | TV series (5 episodes) |
| 1978 | The Sweeney | Julie Kingdom | TV series (1 episode 'Drag Act' S4 E3) |
| 1980 | Life for Christine | Rose | TV film |
| 1981 | Bognor | Coriander Cordingley | TV series (6 episodes) |
| 1981 | ITV Playhouse | Angela Birley | TV series (1 episode: "Sin with Our Permission") |
| 1981 | Roger Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Rose | TV series (6 episodes) |
| 1984 | Bergerac | Fleur Ewell | TV series (1 episode: "House Guests") |
| 1984 | Oxbridge Blues | Eileen/Lizzie | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 1985 | Storyboard | Deidre Aitken | TV series (1 episode: "King & Castle") |
| 1986 | ScreenPlay | The Mozart Inquest | TV series |
| 1991 | The House of Elliot | Alice Burgoyne | TV series (11 episodes: 1991–1993) |
| 1996 | Frontiers | Diane Lightfoot | TV series |
| 1997 | Trial and Retribution | Meg Richards | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 1999 | Pure Wickedness | Detective Inspector Mary Carson | TV series |
| 2000 | A Likeness in Stone | Mrs Warner | TV film |
| 2001 | The Fourth Angel | Gail (Jack's Secretary) | |
| 2002 | The Jury | Emma McGlade | TV series |
| 2005 | Cherished | Justice Hallett | TV film |
| 2006 | The Living and the Dead | Nancy Brocklebank | |
| 2006 | The Best Man | Dr Cowley | TV film |
| 2008 | Defiance | Riva Reich | |
| 2010 | Silent Witness | Margaret Hudson | TV series (1 episode: "Intent: Part II") |
| 2010 | Archipelago | Patricia | |
| 2011 | The hour | Jemima Sherwin | BBC Series |
| 2011 | Happy Accident | Claire | Short |
| 2013 | Holby City | Mary Tinsley | BBC Series (Series 15 ?) |
| 2014 | Death In paradise | Emma | Red Planet Series |
| 2014 | The Suspicions of Mr Whicher | Georgina Shore | Ep. Beyond the Pale |
| 2017 | Doctors | Ruth Hunter | |
| 2018 | Witless (Series 3) | Jane | Objective Prods |
| 2019 (?) | The Show | Karen | Phoenix Films |
| 2019 (?) | Don't Forget the Driver | Lyn | BBC series |
| 2022 | This England | Clare Edwards | Sky |
| 2022 | A Spy Among Friends | Dora Philby | ITV |
| 2023 | A Paris Proposal | Marion Durand | Hallmark TV film |
| 2023 | Casualty | Mags Pine | BBC |