Kathleen Gati
Canadian actress
Kathleen Gati (born 13 August 1957) is a US-based Canadian actress. She is known for portraying Liesl Obrecht on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital. Gati appeared on the television series Leverage in 2009.
Career
Gati moved to New York at age 20 and began acting in off-Broadway productions and the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children from 1989 to 1990. In the early 1990s, she moved to Hungary for a lead film role (Sose halunk meg) and stayed there for five years.
Gati has appeared in a number of movies, including Sunshine (1999), Igby Goes Down (2002), Meet the Fockers (2004), and The Future (2011). On television, she has had guest starring roles on The Practice, NYPD Blue, ER, Cold Case, Desperate Housewives, NCIS, The Mentalist, and Arrow. Gati also had the recurring role as Russian First Lady Anya Suvarov on the Fox series 24 from 2006 to 2007.
In 2012, Gati joined the cast of ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital playing the villainous Dr. Liesl Obrecht.
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