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Name: Catherine McCormack
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Date of Birth:
January 01, 1972
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Place of Birth:
Alton, Hampshire, England, UK
Mini-bio:
Catherine McCormack (born 1 January 1972) is an English actress.
McCormack was born in Alton, Hampshire, England; one of her grandfathers was Irish. She was raised in the Catholic religion
...( read more)(though is now a "lapsed Catholic") and attended Convent of Our Lady of Providence. Her mother died of lupus when McCormack was six years old, and she was subsequently raised by her father, who was a steelworker.
McCormack's first notable role was as the character Murron in the multiple Academy Award winning movie Braveheart. Her screen debut however was as the lead in the Anna Campion directed film Loaded. After the success of Braveheart McCormack had starring roles in Nils Gaup's Northstar and Marshall Herskovitz's Dangerous Beauty. She has also appeared in David Leland's The Land Girls and had the leading role of Hannah in Davy Kane's This Year's Love which also starred Kathy Burke.
McCormack also played the memorable role of Brad Pitt's love interest in Spy Game opposite Robert Redford and most recently in 28 Weeks Later.