Question: Who plays cat in beauty and the beast?

Disambiguated questions and answers:
context: The television series stars New Zealand actor Jay Ryan as Vincent (the "beast") and Canadian actress Kristin Kreuk as Catherine (the "beauty"). The pilot was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in March 2012.
question: Who plays cat in the 2012 reboot of beauty and the beast tv series?
short_answers: Kristin Kreuk
wikipage: Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV series)

context: Beauty and the Beast is an American fantasy-drama television series which first aired on CBS from September 25, 1987 to August 4, 1990. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a double focus: the relationship between Vincent (Ron Perlman), a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine (Linda Hamilton), a savvy Assistant District Attorney in New York, and a secret utopian community of social outcasts living in a subterranean sanctuary. Through an empathetic bond, Vincent senses Catherine's emotions, and becomes her guardian.
question: Who plays cat in the 1987 beauty and the beast tv series?
short_answers: Linda Hamilton
wikipage: Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV series)

context: The television series stars New Zealand actor Jay Ryan as Vincent (the "beast") and Canadian actress Kristin Kreuk as Catherine (the "beauty"). The pilot was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in March 2012.
question: Who plays Catherine in the 2012 reboot of the beauty and the beast tv series?
short_answers: Kristin Laura Kreuk

Kristin Kreuk
wikipage: Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV series)

context: Beauty and the Beast is an American fantasy-drama television series which first aired on CBS from September 25, 1987 to August 4, 1990. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a double focus: the relationship between Vincent (Ron Perlman), a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine (Linda Hamilton), a savvy Assistant District Attorney in New York, and a secret utopian community of social outcasts living in a subterranean sanctuary. Through an empathetic bond, Vincent senses Catherine's emotions, and becomes her guardian.
question: Who plays Catherine in the 1987 beauty and the beast tv series?
short_answers: Linda Carroll Hamilton

Linda Hamilton
wikipage: Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV series)

Long answers:
knowledge: content: Beauty & the Beast is a Canadian-American science fiction police procedural television series filmed in Toronto, Canada, very loosely inspired by the 1987 CBS series of the same name, developed by Sherri Cooper-Landsman and Jennifer Levin that premiered on The CW on October 11, 2012, and ended its run on September 15, 2016.
wikipage: Beauty & the Beast (2012 TV series)

content: Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Sarah Connor in the Terminator film series and Catherine Chandler in the television series Beauty and the Beast (1987–1990), for which she was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award.
wikipage: Linda Hamilton

content: Cat is a nickname, often a short form (hypocorism of Catherine or Katherine).
wikipage: Cat (nickname)
long_answer: There were several Beauty and the Beast TV series, with different actresses playing Catherine, or Cat for short. In the 1987 CBS series, Catherine was played by American actress Linda Hamilton, who was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award for the role. In the 2012 reboot on The CW, very loosely inspired by the 1987 series, Canadian actress Kristin Kreuk played Catherine.

knowledge: content: Beauty & the Beast is a Canadian-American science fiction police procedural television series filmed in Toronto, Canada, very loosely inspired by the 1987 CBS series of the same name, developed by Sherri Cooper-Landsman and Jennifer Levin that premiered on The CW on October 11, 2012, and ended its run on September 15, 2016.
wikipage: Beauty & the Beast (2012 TV series)
long_answer: There is more than one television series called Beauty and the Beast. The 1987 Beauty and the Beast is an American fantasy drama series that was loosely based on the fairy tale. In this series, Ron Perlman plays Vincent, the mythic, noble man-beast, and actress Linda Hamilton plays Catherine, or Cat. There is also a Canadian-American science fiction police procedural television series called Beauty & the Beast which was very loosely inspired by the 1987 American TV series. In this series, Jay Ryan plays Vincent and Kristin Kreuk plays Catherine, or Cat.