Kate Handford is an actress.
On stage, she has performed at Shakespeare's Globe, National Theatre Studio, Edinburgh Fringe, VAULT Festival & more. On screen, she appears in The Great (Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult), The Courier (Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan), as well as in work for the National Film Board of Canada, It's Nice That & the Venice Art Biennale. She has ongoing collaborations with Theatre Handmade & filmmaker Prerna Winter.
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An award winning voice over artist, Kate narrates audiobooks for Penguin Random House, Bloomsbury, Harper Collins & more; features in video games like Terminator: Resistance & Kings Bounty II; and voices campaigns for international brands and charities like Google, The Modist & World Animal Protection.
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MA, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 2014
BFA, Ryerson University, 2012
"I didn't want to stop listening! Great narration, can't wait for the next book."
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"Perfectly understated performance. I loved this version of Rilla: simply read, with just the right emotion."
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"All credit, as usual at the Globe, to a talented and diverse ensemble...
with a detailed minor role performance from Kate Handford, as a Roman refugee..."
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Live Theatre UK
"...Kate Handford gives a gutsy performance as Silvia - a Roman civilian who gives voice to some of the more nuanced moral arguments of the play."
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★★★★★
Morning Star
"Narrator Kate Handford will win listeners over with this sweet and charming performance."
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Best Audiobooks of 2017
"Together, Thorpe and Handford make the thoughts, feelings and energy of these young people readily accessible to listeners."
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