Georgina Cates, the British actress who reinvented herself to land the lead female role in the coming-of-age film directed by Mike Newell A terrible adventuredied. She was 51 years old.
Cates died on May 6, her daughter, Naiia, wrote a few weeks ago on Instagram, calling her “beautiful” and “free-spirited” and adding, “I love you, thank you for your creativity, your curiosity and your courage to always be true to yourself, no matter what.” »
His death had not been reported. THR has contacted family members and representatives for more information.
Cates was married to American actor Skeet Ulrich (Shout, Riverdale) from 1997 until their divorce in 2005, and his survivors include Naiia and her twin brother Jakob, born in 2001.
The actress also played a juicy central role as a cheating wife alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Vince Vaughn in the dark comedy. Clay pigeons (1998), directed by David Dobkin.
In A terrible adventure (1995), adapted from Beryl Bainbridge’s 1990 novel of the same name, Cates shone as the impressionable Stella Bradshaw, who gets a job as an assistant in a Liverpool repertory theater troupe after World War II and falls for director Meredith Potter (Hugh Grant) while actor PL O’Hara (Alan Rickman) falls for her.
After initially being rejected for the role after auditioning for the role of Clare Woodgate, she had starred in the BBC sitcom. 2point4 Children using her birth name – she tried again as Cates, creating the character of a working-class teenager from Liverpool, just like Stella. She also dyed her hair red and adopted a new accent to get hired.
“She was very bushy, lustful, romantic, soulful, tough, just like the character,” Newell said in a 1995 interview with The New York Times. “She even looked a little like (Stella).” The filmmaker admitted to being deceived and angry at first before realizing “it was good for show business.”
Georgina Cates with Alan Rickman in 1995 A terrible adventure.
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Clare Elaine Woodgate was born on 4 April 1975 in Colchester, Essex, and attended Colchester County Girls’ High School. She said she loved playing with other people from the beginning.
“I would pretend to be American and have millionaire parents or I would pretend to be French and I was very exotic or I would pretend to be deaf,” she told the Times. “I didn’t see the point in spending every day just being myself.”
In a 2016 interview, she said she had “always been weird” and ran away from home for a day to find an agent when she was 13.
She played her daughter Jenny Porter in the first two seasons (1991-92) of the family comedy. 2point4 Children — Clare Buckfield took on the role for the final six seasons of the series — then starred in the romantic comedy feature film Au pair (1994).
A terrible adventure premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, and critic Janet Maslin in the Times wrote that the film “belongs to Miss Cates. She shows a touch of shrewd calculation that is integral to the sweet young person she plays.”
Cates later moved to Los Angeles and she first met Ulrich at an Oscars party. They dated for about a year before getting married on their farm in Madison County, Virginia.
Georgina Cates with Vince Vaughn in 1998 Clay pigeons.
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In 1998, Cates played an actress in Illuminatedthe romantic comedy written and directed by John Turturro and set in a turn-of-the-century New York theater company, and appeared with her husband and Kiefer Sutherland in the Showtime TV movie A Soldier’s Sweetheartfilmed in New Zealand.
His resume also included that of Michael Lindsay-Hogg Frankie Starlight (1995), Big city blues (1997), Stiff upper lips (1997), Fisherman (2007), Fool: Bad grandfather (2013) and, for his last on-screen credits, Eternal (2016). More recently, she has worked as a photographer.
“I always want to do something different, I don’t want to play the same role, I’m just not built that way,” she said. “There are actors who do this really well every week on TV shows…I would just be bored.”
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