Gina McKee | |
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Born | Georgina McKee 14 April 1964[1] Peterlee, County Durham, England |
Alma mater | East Durham College, National Youth Theatre |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1979–present |
Spouse |
Kez Cary (m. 1989) |
Georgina McKee (born 14 April 1964) is an English actress. She won the 1997 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Our Friends in the North (1996), and earned subsequent nominations for The Lost Prince (2003) and The Street (2007). She also starred on television in The Forsyte Saga (2002) and as Caterina Sforza in The Borgias (2011). Her film appearances include Notting Hill (1999), Phantom Thread (2017), and My Policeman (2022).
She was born in 1964. Her father was a coal miner, and she grew up in the north-east, in County Durham - an "industrial white working-class background". She has no children.