Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1/5/1959
Place of Birth
West Ham, London, England, UK
Also Known As
Kate Duchene
Kate Duchêne
Biography
Kate Duchêne (born Catherine Anne Purves Duchêne, 5 July 1959) is an English actress best known for her role as the teacher Miss Hardbroom in the adaptation of the children's books The Worst Witch.
Duchêne started to act at the age of 14. She studied French and Spanish at Trinity College, Cambridge in the 1980s, where she became a member of the Footlights theatre group, writing and performing her own material. She also acted with the Cambridge Mummers, appearing in such plays as Measure For Measure (as Isabella) in Cambridge and the Edinburgh Fringe. In the 1980s she joined the Traverse Theat...
Known For
Monsieur N.
as Madame Balcombe
Roxane
as Wendy
All Good Children
as Lynne
The Tall Guy
as Old Girlfriend
National Theatre Live: Henry V
as Exeter / Constable of France
National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
as Juliana
National Theatre Live: Everyman
as God / Good Deeds
An Education
as Latin Teacher
Henry VIII - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
as Queen Katherine