Background
Clarke was born Katherine Anne Clarke in Pittsburgh, the oldest of five sisters, the youngest of whom is Victoria Clarke.
Clarke was born Katherine Anne Clarke in Pittsburgh, the oldest of five sisters, the youngest of whom is Victoria Clarke.
Yale School of Drama.
Her family moved to Sewickley when she was ten. Clarke received her Bachelor of Arts in theater arts from Mount Holyoke College in 1974 and her Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama in 1978. During her final year at Yale Clarke performed with the Yale Repertory Theater in such plays as Tales from the Vienna Woods.
The first few years of Clarke"s professional career were largely theatrical, apart from her role in Dragonslayer.
After appearing in three Broadway plays in 1985, Clarke moved to Los Angeles for several years as a film and television actress. She returned to theater in the early 1990s, and to Broadway as Charlotte Cardoza in Titanic.
Clarke was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2000. She returned to Pittsburgh to teach theater at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Pittsburgh Musical Theater"s Rauh Conservatory as well as to perform in Pittsburgh theatre until her death on September 9, 2004.
Broadway 1983 - Teaneck Tanzi: The Venus Flytrap 1985 - The Marriage of Figaro 1985 - Arms and the Manitoba 1985 - Strange Interlude 1998 - Titanic: A New Musical Office-Broadway 1979 - Othello 1981 - Number End of Blame 1983 - Summer 1984 - Total Eclipse 1984 - Quartermaine"s Terms 1984 - Thin Ice 1994 - Three Birds Alighting On A Field 1994 - Unexpected Tenderness Regional 1978 - Tales from the Vienna Woods (New Haven) 1979 - The Winter"s Tale (Washington) 1980 - Bal (Chicago) 1981 - Plenty (Chicago) 1982 - Summer Vacation Madness (Minneapolis) 1984 - As You Like lieutenant (San Diego) 1984 - Not Quite Jerusalem (New Haven) 1989 - Our Country"s Good (Los Angeles) 1991 - The Queen And The Rebels (Baltimore) 1996 - Mistress
Warren"s Profession (New Haven) 1997 - Indiscretions (Dallas) 1997 - The Glass Menagerie (Portland, Maine) 1999 - Griller (Baltimore) 2000 - Who"s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Rochester, New York) 2002 - The Gigli Concert (Pittsburgh) 2002 - Aristocrats (Pittsburgh).