Cathryn Bradshaw

Background

Cathryn Bradshaw was born in Blackpool in 1964 and brought up in Lancashire, England.

Education

She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, alongside Louise Plowright and Mark Strong, and graduated in 1987.

Career

Bradshaw"s first television role came in 1988 when she played the Princess in an episode of The Storyteller. The following year she appeared in an episode of Inspector Morse and also in the 1989 comedy musical film, Bert Rigby, You"re a Fool alngside Robert Lindsay and Robbie Coltrane. Then in 1990 she played Melanie in the acclaimed British Broadcasting Corporation television drama Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit opposite Charlotte Coleman.

She also appeared in four episodes of the Independent Television crime drama Chancer.

She made a number of television appearances throughout the 1990s. In 2003 she played Paula in romantic drama film, The Mother opposite Daniel Craig.

And in 2004 she played Mary Webb in the British Broadcasting Corporation musical drama Blackpool. She appeared in two films in 2006.

She also appeared in the psychological thriller Like Minds as Helen Colbie.

She played Margaret Littlefair in the satirical black comedy television series Suburban Shootout which aired on Five and Paramount Comedy in the United Kingdom. In 2007 she appeared in an episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation sitcom Lead Balloon. Cathryn has worked extensively in theatre.

Achievements

• Firstly, the romantic comedy Venus, as Jillian, which starred Peter O"Toole and won two awards and received sixteen further nominations.

Membership

In 1996, Bradshaw appeared at the National Theatre in Helen Edmundson"s adaptation of Leo Tolstoy"s War and Peace, and from 1997 to 1999 she was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company She has also appeared in Down to Earth and Midsomer Murders.