Kate Burton

Actor Sep 10 (age 68) Geneva, Switzerland 1969–2025 (56 year career)

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Biography

Kate Burton is a Swiss-born Welsh-American stage and screen actress. She is best known for her TV roles as Vice President Sally Langston on ABC's Scandal, Vera Quinn on the Audience Network's series Full Circle, and Dr. Ellis Grey on ABC's Grey's Anatomy. She holds an BA in Russian Studies and European History from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, New Haven, Connecticut.

Known For

Film

127 Hours

Aron's Mom

Film

Remember Me

Janine

Film

Big Trouble in Little China

Margo

Film

Unfaithful

Tracy

Film

Stay

Mrs. Letham

Film

The Ice Storm

Dorothy Franklin

Film

The First Wives Club

Woman in Bed

Film

Dumb Money

Elaine Gill

Filmography

Acting (117)

Movies (61)

The Surrender

as Barbara

Violent Ends

as Darlene Woodley

Oscar Wilde About America

guts

as Gabby

Dumb Money

as Elaine Gill

The Anne Frank Gift Shop

2023

as Ilse

Our Son

2023

as Maggie "Miggie"

5.8

Heaven, I Suppose

2023

as Cheryl

Breaking

2022

as Tami Stackhouse

6.5

Sandra Day O'Connor: The First

2021

as Narrator (voice)

The Codebreaker

2021

as Narrator (voice)

7.0

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

as Ellen Idelson

At First Light

as Kate

Noël Coward's Present Laughter

as Liz Essendine

Martyrs

as Eleanor

Identity Theft

as Anna

Amok

2015

as Dr. Wilson

Bleeding Heart

as Martha

Barefoot

as Mrs. Wheeler

Don't Look Back

as Dr. Jeanette Barnes

5.4

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center

as Mrs. Mullin

2 Days in New York

as Bella

Liberal Arts

as Susan

Mariachi Gringo

as Anne

Puncture

as Senator O'Reilly

Caris' Peace

as Self

127 Hours

as Aron's Mom

Remember Me

as Janine

Consent

as Susan

Spooner

as Alice Spooner

Washingtonienne

as Joy

Max Payne

as Nicole Horne

What Just Happened

as Doctor Randall

Quid Pro Quo

as Merilee

Hidden Treasure of the Mississippi

as Aunt Birdy

Sherrybaby

as Marcia Swanson

Stay

as Mrs. Letham

Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea

2005

as Narrator (voice)

5.7

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer

2003

as Connie Posey

5.4

Three Sisters

2003

as Olga

Swimfan

as Carla Cronin

Unfaithful

as Tracy

Obsessed

as Sara Miller

The Opportunists

as Rest Home Sister

Celebrity

as Robin's Friend Cheryl

The Ice Storm

as Dorothy Franklin

Ellen Foster

as Abigail Montford

Mistrial

as Katherine Donohue

The First Wives Club

as Woman in Bed

August

as Helen Blathwaite

Looking for Richard

as Self

Notes For My Daughter

1995

as Brenda Gardner

Life with Mikey

as Mrs. Burns

Love Matters

as Deborah

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

as Self

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

as Self

Uncle Tom's Cabin

as Ophelia

Big Trouble in Little China

as Margo

Alice in Wonderland

as Alice

Anne of the Thousand Days

1969

as Serving Maid (uncredited)

7.1

Death on the Brandywine

as Ann Riley

Television (56)

The Beast in Me

2025

as Mariah Ingram

7.1

BULLDOZER

2025

as Dr. Diane Roddy

Bosch: Legacy

as Ida Porter

The Dropout

as Rochelle Gibbons

Inventing Anna

as Nora Radford

So Help Me Todd

as Joan

The Mosquito Coast

as Margot's Mom

The Vote

as Narrator (voice)

Prodigal Son

as Sarah Windsor

Perfect Harmony

as Julie

FBI

as Evelyn Kates

Charmed

as Celeste

The Gifted

as Dr. Madeline Risman

13 Reasons Why

as Dr. Hughes

This Is Us

as Barbara

Supergirl

as Isabel Nal

Madam Secretary

as Maureen McCord

Extant

as Fiona Stanton

Full Circle

as Vera Quinn

Elementary

as Maureen Dannon

Veep

as Barbara Hallowes

Scandal

as Sally Langston

Key & Peele

as Hillary Clinton

Revolution

as Jane Warren

Grimm

as Marie Kessler

The Deep End

as Grace Graham

Modern Family

as Iris Fennerman

The Good Wife

as Victoria Adler

Eleventh Hour

as Gepetto / Miranda Cochran

Justice

Grey's Anatomy

as Ellis Grey

Numb3rs

as Anthropologist

The Closer

as Kate Wycoff

Medium

as Bonnie Barrister

Empire Falls

as Cindy Whiting

Rescue Me

as Rose

Working Shakespeare

Rose Red

as Connie Posey

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Stephanie Ufland

100 Centre Street

as Sheila Byrne

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Annette Cole

The West Wing

as Sarah Brainerd

Judging Amy

as Dr. Sheri Jordan

The Practice

as A.D.A. Susan Alexander

7.6

Monty

1994

as Fran Richardson

Home Fires

as Anne Kramer

Brooklyn Bridge

Law & Order

as Sister Bettina

American Experience

as Narrator

Spenser: For Hire

Evergreen

as Agatha Bradford

Ellis Island

as Vanessa Ogden

Great Performances

as Alice

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Abigail

8.6