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Burton has said of these roles that she usually plays "the sweet wife, or the sweet dead wife." Burton has been perhaps most prolific in her work on television. She made many television appearances in the late 1980s and 1990s on such episodic shows as Spenser: For Hire, All My Children, and Brooklyn Bridge.
Kate Burton. Actress: Big Trouble in Little China. Swiss-born Welsh-American actress Kate Burton is the daughter of Welsh actors Richard Burton and Sybil Williams. She graduated Brown University (1979), majoring in Russian studies and European history.
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- Geneva, Switzerland
Daughter of Richard Burton and Sybil Williams. Co-starred with her father, Richard Burton in the critically-received CBS miniseries Ellis Island (1984). He died shortly thereafter. Played the mother of Ellen Pompeo on TV show Grey's Anatomy (2005), although Kate was 12 years older than Ellen.
- September 10, 1957
Jul 30, 2019 · To those of us so far removed from the golden age of Hollywood, Kate Burton's childhood seems impossibly mythical. Her mother was Sybil Williams—a Welsh actress who founded the popular New York ...
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Oct 7, 2020 · Throughout the 1990s she also appeared in movies projects like 1996's August - starring and directed by Anthony Hopkins - Ang Lee's The Ice Storm and TV movie thriller Mistrial with Bill Pullman. Emmet Walsh Movies & TV Shows: Where You Know The Blade Runner Star.
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Oct 9, 2014 · Then in the late ’80s or early ’90s, I did a show called Defying Gravity, by Jane Anderson (Olive Kitteridge), about the Challenger explosion and the teacher [who died in the disaster ...
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Nov 6, 2001 · Profile of actress Kate Burton, daughter of Richard Burton, whose performance as Hedda Gabler on Broadway is proving to be kind of breakout moment for actress who has spent most of her...