Kate McCartney
Australian comedian, writer and actor
Kate McCartney (born 1979 or 1980) is an Australian comedian, writer, actor and illustrator. She is a frequent collaborator with Kate McLennan, which has led to their being dubbed the Kates.
Early life
Kate McCartney was born in 1979 or 1980 in Perth, Western Australia, and moved to Melbourne with her family at the age of 10, where she grew up in Camberwell.
Career
McCartney worked as a comedian and also worked in animation. Her television writing credits have included Big Bite, Hamish & Andy, Adam Hills Tonight, and Spicks and Specks.
She met Kate McLennan in 2011 after McLennan voiced a character in an animation for her. Due to the number of subsequent collaborations with McLennan, the pair have been dubbed "the Kates" in the media.
McCartney co-created the web series Bleak with McLennan in 2010, about being a single 30-something, which won the Kit Denton Disfellowship for Courage and Excellence in Performance Writing at the 2011 AWGIE Awards, worth A$30,000.
With McLennan, she created a cooking-based web series called The Katering Show which screened initially on their YouTube channel in 2014. A second season of The Katering Show was screened on the ABC TV and then on ABC iview in 2016.
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