Search results
Nov 11, 2015 · Kate Stewart made her first million aged 23 with a string of tanning shops and beauty salons, before owning Liverpool’s Heritage Market.
- Biography
- Personality
- Other realities
- Appearance
- Behind the scenes
- External links
Childhood
Katherine Sally Lethbridge-Stewart (PROSE: Downtime: Child of the New World [+]Andy Frankham-Allen, Lethbridge-Stewart (Candy Jar Books, 2020).) was born to Fiona and Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart three years into their marriage, which lasted eight years. As a child, her parents never told her of her father's work at UNIT; she was only aware that he was a military man and was under the impression that it was a boring job. She would often pretend that his absences were due to him having amazing adventures rather than the boring military operations that she believed he was involved in. (HOMEVID: Downtime [+]Marc Platt, Reeltime Pictures releases (Reeltime Pictures, 1995).) "Little Katie" (GAME: Lost in Time [+]Doctor Who video games (Eastside Games, 2022).) often had nightmares about monsters being in her room at night. She once found herself lost in a forest with her father unable to find her. (AUDIO: Narcissus [+]Sarah Grochala, The Eighth of March (The Eighth of March, Big Finish Productions, 2019).) When she was a little girl, her father was stationed in Edinburgh for a time. (AUDIO: The Enemy Beyond [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Kate went to holiday camps in the UK as a child as UNIT wages did not extend to holidays abroad. (AUDIO: Open the Box [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) When she was five, her parents separated due to her father's long absences, with Fiona taking Kate to live near her parents in Chichester. (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice [+]Gary Russell, Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) However she and her mother eventually moved into her Great Uncle Reggie's old, abandoned house in Pinswick. It was while giving a presentation, about her father, at school that she talked about him fighting monsters. This was scoffed at by the teacher and the other children didn't believe her. Later, at home, she and her mother were confronted by Crinix B-Theta, an alien spy disguised as the disbelieving school teacher, looking for information about her father, UNIT and the Doctor. Through a mixture of Fiona, using her uncle's old service revolver, and Kate's persuasion the creature left the house. (PROSE: My Daddy Fights Monsters [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) When Kate was seven, she saw the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith at the UNIT Research Unit and was confused when her father told her that the Doctor was both a genius and an idiot. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Steven Moffat, adapted from The Day of the Doctor (Steven Moffat), Target novelisations (Target Books, 2018).) She also met John Benton, who called her "Little Katie". (AUDIO: Call to Arms [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) She and her father spent some time at Ealsdon House where she befriended Ben Donelly, with whom she would regularly run up and down the long gallery singing a nursery rhyme about a ghost that haunted the place called the Grey Man. (AUDIO: Invocation [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)
Becoming a mother
Due to her mother blaming the Brigadier for their separation, (PROSE: Of the Future [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Kate grew estranged from her father. (HOMEVID: Downtime [+]Marc Platt, Reeltime Pictures releases (Reeltime Pictures, 1995).) By 1989, she was attending a college in Reading, having left home to gain independence, and shared a house with her best friend, Cecilia Hunter. She became attracted to her science teacher, Jonathan James, and, surprised to find that the attraction was mutual, they began dating despite the college's rules. In December 1989, Kate discovered that she was pregnant and, so as not to ruin Jonathan's career, opted out of college. The couple visited the Brigadier to inform him of the pregnancy but, after witnessing an attempt on her father's life, Kate realised that she could not allow her father to be part of her child's life. She left without having told him of her pregnancy. Kate and Jonathan lived together on a houseboat moored on a canal in England. (PROSE: Of the Future [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Whilst Jonathan wanted to marry Kate, she wanted to remain single and refused him. (PROSE: Downtime [+]Marc Platt, adapted from Downtime (Marc Platt), Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) On 25 September, 1990, she gave birth to a son whom she named Gordon James Lethbridge-Stewart, (HOMEVID: Downtime [+]Marc Platt, Reeltime Pictures releases (Reeltime Pictures, 1995).) with "Gordon" coming from her grandfather and "James" from Jonathan. (PROSE: Of the Future [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) In 1992, Kate and Jonathan split up, leaving Kate to raise Gordon as a single parent. (PROSE: Downtime [+]Marc Platt, adapted from Downtime (Marc Platt), Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) She remained living on the houseboat (PROSE: Of the Future [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) and saw very little of him after that. (PROSE: Downtime [+]Marc Platt, adapted from Downtime (Marc Platt), Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)
Relationship rekindled
In 1995, Kate and Gordon were harassed by students of the New World University, who believed that she might be able to lead them to the Brigadier. Frightened, she reconnected with her father and briefly fought alongside him and Sarah Jane Smith against the New World group. Following the Great Intelligence's defeat, she entered into a friendlier relationship with her father and ensured that he could have a relationship with the grandson whom he had not previously known about. (HOMEVID: Downtime [+]Marc Platt, Reeltime Pictures releases (Reeltime Pictures, 1995).) Over the years, Kate became close to her nephew, Conall Lethbridge-Stewart, the son of the Brigadier's illegitimate son, Albert Wilson. Conall, only a few months older than Gordon, was extremely close to her son. (PROSE: Acceptance, and then Understanding [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) In 1997, Alexander Christian, who was unable to get the Brigadier's number for reasons of security, used Kate in order to get in touch with her father, having easily gotten a hold of her phone number: 0122 69046. (PROSE: The Dying Days [+]Lance Parkin, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).) In October 2003, Kate received a message from Douglas Cavendish and joined him in investigating a haunting. Arriving at Cavendish's isolated cottage, she faced Mastho and discovered that the Sodality had revived and transported him through time for their own purposes. This meant that the threat to the present was neutralised. (HOMEVID: Dæmos Rising [+]David J. Howe, Reeltime Pictures releases (Reeltime Pictures, 2004).) She and Cavendish sought the help of the Brigadier a year later when Gordon and Conall were kidnapped at Gordon's fourteenth birthday party. (PROSE: Downtime: Child of the New World [+]Andy Frankham-Allen, Lethbridge-Stewart (Candy Jar Books, 2020).) By September 2004, Kate and Gordon lived in a house in Streatham, although they often still used the old canal boat. (PROSE: Downtime: Child of the New World [+]Andy Frankham-Allen, Lethbridge-Stewart (Candy Jar Books, 2020).) Kate later married and had a second child, but her relationship ended in divorce. (TV: Death in Heaven [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 8 (BBC One, 2014).) Kate attended university and wrote for the student newspaper. (AUDIO: Invocation [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) She earnt a PhD. (AUDIO: Past Lives [+]Robert Valentine, Once and Future (Big Finish Productions, 2023).)
Kate disliked the use of weapons, refusing to take a gun from Sarah Jane Smith when offered, (HOMEVID: Downtime [+]Marc Platt, Reeltime Pictures releases (Reeltime Pictures, 1995).) though by the time of the 2010s and 2020s she would, when necessary, use a gun. (TV: The Zygon Inversion [+]Peter Harness and Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 9 (BBC One, 2015)., The Vanquishers [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who series 13 (BBC One and BBC America, 2021)., et al.)
When she took over UNIT, she enacted great changes to favour scientific approaches over military means. (TV: The Power of Three [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who series 7 (BBC One, 2012).)
Kate believed that "science leads", which was advice from her late father, (TV: The Power of Three [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who series 7 (BBC One, 2012).) though "science needs to remember to carry a gun sometimes." (AUDIO: House of Silents [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)
She believed herself and Osgood to be UNIT's greatest scientific minds. (AUDIO: Retrieval [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) She usually let Osgood use the call sign Greyhound Two. (AUDIO: Call to Arms [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)
She refused to treat her people as pawns, but when dealing with the Master, recognised that it was more important to define deaths based on the loss of practical resources and potential allies as appealing to the Master on moral grounds would be pointless. (AUDIO: Master of Worlds [+]Matt Fitton, Cyber-Reality (UNIT: The New Series, Big Finish Productions, 2018).)
Kate disliked Elizabeth II's name being used as a nickname for the Wirrn Queen. (AUDIO: Hosts of the Wirrn [+]Chris Chapman, Revisitations (UNIT: The New Series, Big Finish Productions, 2018).)
Alternate timelines
In an alternate 2025 "suspended along" Ruby's third visit to Wales, Kate continued to lead UNIT despite the lack of contact from The Fifteenth Doctor, believing him to have "gone silent" and helped UNIT combat aliens and, apparently, the more commonly occuring supernatural. She met with The Fifteenth Doctor's companion, Ruby Sunday at a cafe and had her soliders surround a mysterious woman 73 yards away from Ruby - who unknown to them was an alternate version of Ruby Sunday - despite their psychic conditioning as well as many technological and supernatural defences they all, along with Kate, heard something from the woman causing them to stare fuiously at Ruby then abruptly leave per her orders.
Kate had ice-blonde hair and features sharpened by intellect and alertness. (PROSE: For the Girl Who Has Everything [+]Dave Rudden, The Wintertime Paradox (2020).) Clara Oswald found her attractive. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Steven Moffat, adapted from The Day of the Doctor (Steven Moffat), Target novelisations (Target Books, 2018).)
•The character of Kate Stewart was created by Marc Platt for the 1995 direct-to-video story, Downtime [+]Marc Platt, Reeltime Pictures releases (Reeltime Pictures, 1995).. Beverley Cressman portrayed the character. A younger version of Kate appeared in the 1996 Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Scales of Injustice [+]Gary Russell, Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996). by Gary Russell. She would reappear, again played by Cressman in Dæmos Rising [+]David J. Howe, Reeltime Pictures releases (Reeltime Pictures, 2004).. In 2012 she appeared in the Doctor Who television story The Power of Three [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who series 7 (BBC One, 2012)., almost twenty years after the character was created. Kate's appearance in The Power of Three marked the first time that a character created for an independent spin-off production appeared in the main series, and followed the on-screen debut of Prof Arthur Candy who originated in the spin-off short story, Continuity Errors.
•Kate Lethbridge-Stewart was originally planned to appear in the home video Auton with her father and Cavendish. However, Nick Courtney had to drop out of Auton due to a bout of depression and this led to Kate being written out (causing a falling out between Beverly Cressman and writer Nicholas Briggs at the time). A first draft of Auton 2 also featured Kate.
•She was supposed to appear in The Bells of Saint John and Flatline. Both appearances would have seen her appear with UNIT to wrap things up.
•Kate Stewart was intended to appear in The Pyramid at the End of the World, but Jemma Redgrave's commitment to Holby City prevented this. Her role was replaced with the Secretary General (who then died).
•Jemma Redgrave, who is naturally a brunette, plays the role of Kate with blonde hair matching Beverley Cressman's portrayal of the character.
•A brief lowdown on the Sea Devils spells her name as "Kate Stewert"
This exhibit will look at three examples of designs for National Theatre productions that illustrate how important the role of the theatre designer is in the creation of performance: The...
West Chester University’s Department of Art + Design continues the 2018/19 season with the opening of Theta Resonance: New Works by Kate Stewart in the Swope Music Building and Performing Arts Center, 817 S. High Street, West Chester. The work will be on display until April 5, 2019.
Feb 15, 2008 · Bloodthirsty enemies on the battlefield, double-dealing politicians of the court and would-be assassins at home: the Macbeth embodied with such fearsome insight and theatrical fire by Patrick...
Receive Lewis Center Events & News Updates. Lewis Arts Complex / 122 Alexander Street. Program In Visual Arts / 185 Nassau Street. Program In Creative Writing / 6 New South. 609.258.1500
People also ask
Who is Kate Stewart?
How did Kate Stewart become a millionaire?
How did Kate Stewart meet the Third Doctor?
How did Kate meet the Doctor?
Apr 18, 2019 · Not only is it moving but the way Kate Stewart built her story, alternating chapters between pas and present, beginning with the end then going to “four months ago” to follow with years past was brilliant, clever and demonstrates a huge talent!
