Kate O'Flynn
Kate O'Flynn is a British actress who has appeared on stage at the National Theatre in productions of "Port" and "A Taste of Honey" and in films including "Up There" and "Mr. Turner". Education and training. O'Flynn attended Manchester's Royal Exchange youth theatre as a teenager, before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Career. O'Flynn's first professional role was in Mike Leigh's 2008 film "Happy-Go-Lucky". Later that year, her performance in "The Children's Hour" with the Royal Exchange Theatre Company won her the 2008 TMA Theatre Award for Best  Supporting Performance in a Play. In 2009, O'Flynn appeared with Russell Tovey at London's Royal Court Theatre in Molly Davies' "A Miracle". Michael Billington gave the play 3 stars out of five in his review for British newspaper "The Guardian", finding that "Kate O'Flynn's Amy is a model of gawky despair" but concluding that the cast "fill out a play that provides plenty of evidence of youthful talent but that also leaves you wanting more". In the "Evening Standard", Nicholas de Jongh praised O'Flynn's "beautiful rendering of passivity, selfishness and vulnerability", while "The Daily Telegraph"'s Charles  Spencer wrote, "Kate O'Flynn brings an astonishingly raw vulnerability to the stage as Amy, the tears streaming down her face as she describes how impossible she finds it to love and nurture her child". O'Flynn appeared as Elizabeth Gough in the 2011 television film "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher", and played the role of Beryl in BBC Four's BAFTA Award-winning television adaptation "Room at the Top", based on John Braine's novel of the same name, the following year. Also in 2012, she appeared as Liz in the British feature film comedy "Up There", which was the winner  of the Best Feature Film award at the 2012 British Academy Scotland Awards and was broadcast on BBC Two in August 2015. In 2013, she performed at the National Theatre in its production of Simon Stephens' "Port". Writing in "The Guardian", Maddy Costa noted: "As Rachael […], she grew from a mouthy 11-year-old to a downtrodden but resilient 24-year-old – and in the process transformed from a relative unknown to a star in the making". Her performance won her the Critics' Circle's Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer (other than a playwright). She returned to the  National Theatre, playing Jo in its 2014 production of Shelagh Delaney's "A Taste of Honey". She appeared in the 2014 film "Mr. Turner" and in 2015 O'Flynn played the part of Dr Peep in police comedy drama "No Offence". She reprised her role in series 2. In 2016, O'Flynn played Myrtle in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom "Dot" set in the Cabinet War Rooms. In the same year, she also played Lady Alexandrina De Courcy in the ITV costume drama "Doctor Thorne", based on Anthony Trollope's novel of the same name. Also in 2016, O'Flynn appeared in the  BBC series "Father Brown" episode 5,6 "The Eagle and the Daw" as Katherine Corven. She reprised the character in the 2017 episode 6.2 "The Jackdaw's Revenge". O'Flynn represented Victoria Woodcock in the 2019 television drama "" (2019) written by James Graham. In 2021, O'Flynn appeared in the miniseries Landscapers as DC Emma Lancing. In 2022, O'Flynn appeared in Death in Paradise as DI Neville Parker’s sister Izzy.