# Kate Dickie

Kate Dickie (born 1971) is a Scottish actress who has appeared in television series, stage plays and films. She is known for her television roles as Lex in the BBC series Tinsel Town (2000–2001) and Lysa Arryn in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011, 2014).
Dickie is also known for her portrayal of the security operative Jackie in her 2006 feature-film debut Red Road, directed by Andrea Arnold, for which she won several awards, including Best Actress at the British Academy Scotland Awards and the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress. She again won Best Actress at the 2016 British Academy Scotland Awards for the film Couple in a Hole. Her other film appearances include Prometheus (2012), Filth (2013), The Witch (2015), and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017).

## Early life

Dickie was born in East Kilbride, Scotland. She spent part of her childhood in different parts of Scotland, Wigtownshire, Galloway, Perthshire and Ayrshire, due to frequent moves by her family. From an early age she discovered her passion for acting, which her parents supported. Coming from a working-class family (her father was a farmer and gardener) in which no family member had been in the arts before, she was embarrassed to call herself an actress since she was afraid to be called pretentious.
Her desire for drama classes supported her to overcome her insecurities that appeared through the frequent school changes and helped her dealing with adjusting to new people and surroundings. After leaving school she went to college in Kirkcaldy to study for a national certificate in drama. In 1990, she won a place at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and decided to stay in Glasgow.

## Career

Dickie started to work in theatre. She achieved her breakthrough in 2000, in the BBC Scotland / Raindog series Tinsel Town.
Through Dickie's performance in her film debut Red Road with her former drama school mate and co-star Tony Curran, she gained more recognition as a serious actress.
In the stage play Aalst, based on the true story of a couple who had killed their children and were sentenced in a high-profile trial, Dickie plays one of the parents. Her motivation to perform this role was her feeling of "responsibility to play people like that and to give them a voice. People that are not necessarily good or nice and have good lives."
She reprised the role of Jackie in Donkeys, a follow-up to Red Road which is directed by Morag McKinnon. She portrayed Mary in the United Kingdom supernatural thriller film Outcast. Dickie was a swimming trainer in the 2010 television film Dive. She appears in the HBO television series Game of Thrones, where she plays the role of Lysa Arryn. In 2018, Dickie appeared in a season 5 episode of Shetland. In 2020, she appeared with Emma Stansfield in the music video for Sleaford Mods' previously unreleased song "Second".

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Note |
| 2003 | Room for the Night | Prostitute | Short film |
| 2005 | Who Do You Love? | Mum | Short |
| 2006 | Accidents | Mum | Short |
| 2006 | Red Road | Jackie | |
| 2006 | The Harvest | Emma Bovey | Short |
| 2008 | Somers Town | Jane | |
| 2008 | Summer | Janice | |
| 2008 | Trace | Karen | Short |
| 2008 | Pussyfooting | Joan | Short |
| 2009 | Believe | Janice | |
| 2010 | Outcast | Mary | |
| 2010 | Native Son | Policewoman | Short film (Cinema Extreme) |
| 2010 | Donkeys | Jackie | |
| 2012 | Prometheus | Ford | |
| 2012 | Shell | Claire | |
| 2013 | Filth | Chrissie | |
| 2013 | Not Another Happy Ending | Anna le Fevre | |
| 2013 | For Those in Peril | Cathy | |
| 2014 | Soror | Amanda | Short |
| 2014 | Catch Me Daddy | | |
| 2015 | The Witch | Katherine | |
| 2015 | Couple in a Hole | Karen | |
| 2015 | Gracie | Mary | Short |
| 2016 | Prevenge | Ella | |
| 2017 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | First Order Officer | |
| 2018 | Tell It to the Bees | Pam Kranmer | |
| 2019 | Balance, Not Symmetry | Mary Walker | |
| 2019 | Get Duked! | Sergeant Morag | |
| 2019 | Our Ladies | Sister Condron | |
| 2020 | Wildfire | Veronica | |
| 2021 | The Green Knight | Queen Guinevere | |
| 2021 | Shepherd | Fisher | |
| 2021 | Undergods | Rachel | |
| 2022 | The Northman | Halldora the Pict | |
| 2022 | Matriarch | Cellia | |
| 2024 | Damaged | Laura Kessler | |
| 2024 | Timestalker | Marion | |
| 2025 | Honey Bunch | | Feature; BIFF Berlinale Special 2025 |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Note |
| 1994 | Rab C. Nesbitt | Young girl | Episode: "Mother" |
| 2000–2001 | Tinsel Town | Lex | |
| 2003 | The Vice | Beverly | Episode: "Gameboys" |
| 2003 | Taggart | | Episode: "Penthouse and Pavement" |
| 2004 | Still Game | Pregnant Girl | Episode: "Swottin" |
| 2006 | Film '72 | Herself | |
| 2007 | Taggart | Wendy Nuget | Episode: "Island" |
| 2008 | He Kills Coppers | Janis | |
| 2010 | Five Daughters | Isabella Clennell | 2 episodes |
| 2010 | Dive | Alison | 2 episodes |
| 2010 | The Pillars of the Earth | Agnes Builder | |
| 2011, 2014 | Game of Thrones | Lysa Arryn | Recurring role |
| 2012 | New Tricks | DCI Fiona MacDougall | Episode: "Glasgow UCOS" |
| 2013 | By Any Means | Patricia Brooks | Episode #1, 2 |
| 2015 | London Spy | Editor | Episode: "Strangers" |
| 2015 | The Frankenstein Chronicles | Mrs. Bishop | |
| 2016 | One of Us | Sal | 4 episodes |
| 2017 | Vera | Nell Hinkin | Episode: "The Blanket Mire" |
| 2018 | The Cry | Morven Davis | |
| 2019 | Shetland | DI Sam Boyd | 1 episode |
| 2019 | Peaky Blinders | Mother Superior | Episode: "Strategy" |
| 2019 | The Alienist | Scotch Annie | Episode: "There Bloody Thoughts" |
| 2020 | The English Game | Aileen Suter | 2 episodes |
| 2020 | The Nest | Sergeant McClelland | |
| 2021 | Annika | DCI Diane Oban | |
| 2021 | Summer Camp Island | Professor Elliott (voice) | Episode: "Oscar and the Monsters Chapter 3: Witches Brew" |
| 2022 | Inside Man | Morag | |
| 2023 | Star Wars: Visions | Officer (voice) | Episode: "In the Stars" |
| 2023 | Loki | General Dox | 3 episodes |
| 2023 | Boat Story | Katia | |
| 2024 | The Day of the Jackal | Alison Stoke | |

### Stage

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1994 | Bonjour Tristesse | |
| 1997–98 | Timeless | |
| 1999 | Electra | Electra |
| 1999 | Mainstream | |
| 2000 | AD | |
| 2001 | Blooded | |
| 2002 | Running Girl | Running Girl |
| 2002–03 | Lament | |
| 2003 | The Entertainer | |
| 2005 | Boiling a Frog | Fooaltiyeman |
| 2005 | Trojan Woman | Andromache |
| 2007 | Aalst | Cathy Delany |

### Video game

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2020 | The Complex | |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Work | Result |
| 2000 | British Academy Scotland Award Best Television Performance | Tinsel Town | Nominated |
| 2006 | British Academy Scotland Award Best Actress in a Scottish Film | Red Road | Won |
| 2006 | British Independent Film Award for Best Actress in a British Independent Film | Red Road | Won |
| 2006 | Montreal Festival of New Cinema Acting Award for Best Actress | Red Road | Won |
| 2007 | London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actress of the Year | Red Road | Nominated |
| 2016 | British Academy Scotland Award for Best Actress in a Scottish Film | Couple in a Hole | Won |