Kate Galvin

―Joe Goldberg.

**Katherine "Kate" Galvin-Goldberg** is a main character in the fourth season of Netflix's *You*, serving as the titular love interest. She is portrayed by Charlotte Ritchie.

## Biography

She’s smart, independent, suspicious, misses nothing. She is fiercely loyal to her friends, a brick wall to everyone else. The daughter of a chaotic, bohemian single mother, Kate worked hard to create the life she now leads. She’s an art gallery director whose job means managing tempestuous artists. Kate tends to be “the adult in the room,” and has embraced the moniker of “icy bitch.” She’s especially protective of best friend Lady Phoebe, a sweet and trusting person whose extreme wealth and fame tend to attract opportunists. Kate prefers “arrangements” to love, which is why she dates fun but self-centered partier Malcolm. When Malcolm invites Joe, an American outsider of no apparent means, into their privileged world, Kate not only immediately dislikes him, she strongly suspects something about the man is not what he seems.

Kate's mother, Greta, was a beautiful but unstable model. When Kate was 15, her mother had a break down over a man, slitting her wrists and being hospitalized for an unspecified amount of time. Kate was sent to a boarding school in Rhode Island. Kate was always expected to have it all together and was never allowed to show emotion around her mother. Even when her grandparent's died, her mother refused to even look at her unless she remained perfectly stoic.

Kate's father, Tom Lockwood, is something called an activist investor, a corporate raider and there isn't an industry he hasn't had his hands in. He's one of the more powerful men on the planet. Kate's family is more wealthy than anyone in her social group. Kate doesn't go by Lockwood due to how her father makes money by stripping businesses for parts, destroying workers' lives for shareholders profits, addition to the backroom deals to sic police on protesters, cleansing of a CEO's record of sexual assault or paid to have well-water toxicity reports falsified, which resulted in several children getting cancer and the company made £400 millions ("Hampsie"). She cut off contact with him when she was twenty years old although he continues to try to force himself into her life in various ways.

In "The Death of Jonathan Moore", Joe and Kate moved to New York after she inherited the business, which included the empire, when her father died.

## Appearances

### Season 4

* "Joe Takes a Holiday"
* "Portrait of the Artist"
* "Eat the Rich"
* "Hampsie"
* "The Fox and the Hound"
* "Best of Friends"
* "Good Man, Cruel World"
* "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
* "She's Not There"
* "The Death of Jonathan Moore"

## Trivia

* Kate has cut all ties with her father when she was 20 years old due to her father's business dealings ("Hampsie").
* There is a possibility that the surname of Galvin might be her mother's maiden name.
* She is considered her father's favorite child ("Hampsie").
* It was revealed that Kate was the one who worked on the business deal that gave several children cancer ("Good Man, Cruel World").
* It was mentioned by Tom Lockwood that Kate is one of seven children ("She's Not There").

## Quotes

* "Your past doesn't scare me. It can't be worse than mine."
* "Not only do I not care if you think I'm a bitch, I hugely prefer it."
* "When I was young, my mother forbade me from crying. If I skinned my knee. Fuck, when my grandparents died. She wouldn't look at me unless I was perfectly stoic. Hide all feeling, and it just became default."
* "With the utmost respect Sophie, piss the fuck off."
* "I know what I'm like. I don't let people in. It simply isn't worth it. Except when it is."
* "You seem completely incapable of understanding me building an entire life here, the one that I am proud of one that mirrors who I am, and one that I would like to continue living without your constant fucking interference!"

## References

1. ↑ Charlotte Ritchie To Star In Season 4 Of Netflix’s ‘You’