Katherine Woodville (actress)
British actress
Katherine Woodville (born Catherine Woodville; 12 March 1938 – 5 June 2013) was an English film and television actress. She changed her professional name to Kate Woodville in 1967 upon moving to the U.S., where she eventually became a life member of the Actors Studio.
Career
She was known for her appearances in Z-Cars, The Avengers, Danger Man, Mission: Impossible, It Takes a Thief, Mannix, The Rockford Files, Days of Our Lives, Eight Is Enough, Star Trek, Kung Fu, The Saint and Gibbsville.
Personal life
Woodville married three times: first to Avengers actor Patrick Macnee and then to Jerrold Freedman, an American film and television director and novelist.
Her third marriage was to actor Edward Albert, the son of Eddie Albert, from 1978 until his death in 2006. The couple had one child, a daughter, singer/songwriter and poet Tai Woodville (born 1980).
Woodville retired from acting in 1979. She died of cancer on 5 June 2013 at the age of 75.
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