Katherine Kelly
Acting
Awards
Won 1 British Soap Award for Best Actress Award
British Soap Award for Best Actress 1 won
- — Best Actress Won
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Katherine Kelly is an English actress. She rose to prominence with her portrayal of Becky McDonald on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2006–2012), for which she received multiple awards, including the British Soap Award for Best Actress (2009) and the NTA for Best Serial Drama Performance (2012).
Kelly's subsequent television roles include Lady Mae in Mr Selfridge (2013–2014, 2016), DI Jodie Shackleton in Happy Valley (2016), Miss Andrea Quill in Class (2016), Jane Lowry in Strike Back (2017–2018), DCI Natalie Hobbs in Criminal: UK (2019–2020), Elizabeth Sutherland in Gentleman Jack (2019–2022), DI Karen Renton in Liar (2020), Sally Wright in Innocent (2021), and Angela van Den Bogerd in Mr Bates vs The Post Office (2024).
Katherine Kelly was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. She grew up in both South Yorkshire and the United States. She has strong links with The Lamproom Theatre in Barnsley, established in 1998 by her father John (who is originally from Castleisland, County Kerry, Ireland), and has regularly supported fund-raising events held there.
She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with fellow students Meredith MacNeill, Leo Bill, Elliot Cowan, Laurence Fox, and actor and novelist Anna Hope, graduating in 2001.
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Filmography
Acting
50 credits
Coronation Street
The Night Manager
Inside No. 9
Happy Valley
Gentleman Jack
Life on Mars
Mr Selfridge
The Crow Girl
The Hack
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Criminal: UK
Liar
The Long Shadow
Flack
Innocent
Official Secrets
New Street Law
Class
Protection
Bloods
Cheat
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
The Guilty
In Flight
The Justin Lee Collins Show
Murdertown
HIM
The Secret River
Number 10
How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)
Ruby Speaking
The Visit
The Sound of Music Live!
Hotel Custody
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
Last Train to Christmas
Let Her Go
Mischief Night
Affection
Live from Studio Five
Sons & Lovers
Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
The Last Witch
The Royal
Dirty God
Kat and the Band
Coronation Street: Out of Africa
The Great Chicago Adventure
National Theatre Live: She Stoops to Conquer
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