Career
MacColl is recognised for her work on European television and film, mainly in Italy. She has gained somewhat of a cult status, by horror fans, because of her career as an Italian horror actress. MacColl began her career in the late 1970s, making her debut in the French romantic drama Le dernier amant romantique, in which she received a small role.
In 1979, she received her first leading role in Lady Oscar, a historical drama directed by Jacques Demy based on the manga Rose of Versailles by Riyoko Ikeda.
Following her part in the drama Le fils puni, she appeared in the first of director Lucio Fulci"s "The Gates of Hell Trilogy", City of the Living Dead, playing the role of Mary Woodhouse, with Christopher George. In her second role in the trilogy, The Beyond, she plays the role of Liza Merril, a young woman who inherits an infamous hotel in Louisiana only to discover what lies beneath it is one of the seven doors to Hell.
MacColl has stated that The Beyond is her most favourable of the trilogy, for the fact that she enjoyed working with the cast and crew, especially David Warbeck, and that it was filmed in New Orleans. MacColl did not originally plan to work in films with such a violent nature, as she had thought that they would not attract an audience, but following the growing fanbase of the trilogy over the years and that the films have received worldwide recognition, she is proud of the success of the trilogy.
She has also appeared in such films as Hawk the Slayer (1980), Afraid of the Dark (1991), A Good Year (2006), and most recently, the 2011 anthology film The Theatre Bizarre.
She also starred in the Swiss short comedy film Employé du mois. MacColl has had a successful career in television In 1978, she made her television debut in the French series Il était un musicien.
Her credits include, the mystery series Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, the short-lived British Broadcasting Corporation series Squadron, the mini-series The Last Days of Pompeii, Dempsey and Makepeace, The Hardy Boys, and the French soap opera Plus belle la vie.
Chimères (2013)
The Theatre Bizarre (2011)
Plus belle la vie (2004-2006. television series)
Episode #2.182 (2006) - Ann Boccara
House of Voices (2004) - Francard
A Soldier"s Daughter Never Cries (1998) - Mistress
Smith
Strangers (television series)
Touch (1996) - Eva
Le Bal des casse-pieds (1992)
Afraid of the Dark (1991) - Blind Woman
Counterstrike (television series)
The Lady of the Rhine (1990) - Lorraine Sydberg
The Hitchhiker (television series)
Garter Belt (1989) - Catherine
Katts and Dog (television series)
The Grand Hotel Caper (1989) - Lydia
Jeniec Europy (1989) - Lady Lowe
Mangeuses d"Hommes (aka Manitoba Eaters. 1988) - Deborah
Dempsey and Makepeace (television series)
Hors de Combat (1985) - Angie Hughes
The Last Days of Pompeii (1984 television mini-series) - Julia
Squadron (1982.
television series) - Fairlight Court
Doctor Susan Young
Histoire d"un bonheur (1982) - Patricia
The House by the Cemetery (1981) - Lucy Boyle (as Katherine MacColl)
The Beyond (1981) - Liza Merril (as Katherine MacColl)
Louisiana Peau de chagrin (1980. television film) - Foedara
City of the Living Dead (1980) - Mary Woodhouse (as Katriona MacColl)
Hawk the Slayer (1980) - Eliane
Lady Oscar (1979) - Oscar François de Jarjayes.