Kay Adshead

ActorWriter May 10 (age 71) Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK 1977–1998 (21 year career)

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Biography

Kay Adshead is a British actress best known for playing Cathy in the BBC's 1978 adaptation of Wuthering Heights. She is also a poet, playwright, theatremaker, and producer.

Known For

Film

The Kiss of Death

Linda

Film

One Foot in the Grave

Keep Fit Instructress

Film

dinnerladies

Christine

Film

The Bill

6.7 1984

Film

Dick Turpin

Julsca

Film

Family Affairs

2.6 1997

Film

Crime Traveller

7.4 1997

Film

Victoria Wood

Lorraine Spence

Filmography

Acting (13)

Movies (4)

Operation Julie

1985

as 'Swan'

2.0

Acceptable Levels

1983

as Sue

Soft Targets

1982

as Hotel Waitress

The Kiss of Death

1977

as Linda

6.3

Television (9)

dinnerladies

as Christine

Family Affairs

Crime Traveller

One Foot in the Grave

1990

as Keep Fit Instructress

Victoria Wood

as Lorraine Spence

The Bill

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Beryl Stapleton

Dick Turpin

as Julsca

Wuthering Heights

as Catherine 'Cathy' Earnshaw

5.3

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Oranges and Lemons

1991

Writer