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.
Kate McCartney | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1979 or 1980 (age 46–47) Perth, Western Australia |
| Notable work | The Katering Show Get Krack!n Deadloch |
| Partner(s) | Sally Rugg (2022–present; engaged) |
| Children | 1 |
| Comedy career | |
| Medium | Stand-up comedian, writer, actor, illustrator |
| Genres | observational comedy, character comedy, parody and satire |
Early life
editKate McCartney was born in 1979 or 1980[1] in Perth, Western Australia, and moved to Melbourne with her family at the age of 10,[2] where she grew up in Camberwell.[1]
Career
editMcCartney 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.[3]
She met Kate McLennan in 2011 after McLennan voiced a character in an animation for her.[4] Due to the number of subsequent collaborations with McLennan, the pair have been dubbed "the Kates" in the media.[5][6]
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.[7]
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.[8][9]
In 2017, McCartney collaborated with McLennan for ABC Television to create the comedy Get Krack!n, in which they played breakfast show television presenters.[10]
In 2021, they created Slushy, a workplace comedy set in the Australian Antarctic research base, that was available as a podcast on Audible.[11]
McCartney and McLennan wrote the 2023 Amazon Prime Video series Deadloch starring Kate Box,[12] which garnered positive reviews,[13] and won McCartney a Best Television Script Writing Award and Box a Best Actress Award, at the AACTA Awards in February 2024.[14][15] The series was a worldwide hit, reaching the top 10 on Prime in over 165 countries, including the UK and the US. The second series, set in the Top End,[16] premiered on Amazon on 20 March 2026.[17]
Personal life
editMcCartney had a daughter, Millie, in early 2015.[2]
In 2022, she became engaged to Sally Rugg.[18] As of May 2023 McCartney was living in the Melbourne suburb of Preston.[1]
References
edit- 1 2 3 Rocca, Jane (29 May 2023). "It Takes Two: Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney". Harper's Bazaar. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
The 43-year-old was born in Perth, moved to Sydney and grew up in Camberwell, Melbourne.
- 1 2 Northover, Kylie (21 August 2017). "Lunch with Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ↑ Brookfield, Joanne (27 January 2019). "Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney on the second season of Get Krack!n". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ↑ Cain, Sian (26 May 2023). "'We invoked Shakespeare': Kates McLennan and McCartney on explaining Australian swearing to Amazon". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ↑ "Deadloch: The Kates are back with 'feminist, noir, crime comedy'". The New Daily. 8 May 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ↑ Ward, Sarah (5 June 2023). "How Australia's Comedy Queens Made "Funny Broadchurch": Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney Talk 'Deadloch'". Concrete Playground. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ↑ Swift, Brendan (26 September 2011). "AWGIE Award Winners Announced". IF. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ↑ Valentish, Jenny (27 August 2017). "Get Krack!n: how The Katering Show's comedic duo are skewering morning TV". the Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ↑ Buckmaster, Luke (30 August 2017). "Get Krack!n review – Katering Show Kates face-plant uproariously into milieu of breakfast TV". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ↑ Moran, Rob (16 February 2017). "The Katering Show's Kates to tackle breakfast TV in new ABC series Get Krack!n". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ↑ Rugendyke, Louise (8 May 2021). "'That's enough from us': What the Get Krackin' team did next". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ↑ Northover, Kylie (18 May 2023). "The Kates' mystery opens with a dead body - but not what you expect". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ↑ "Deadloch, Wellmania and the Matildas: the best Australian television of 2023". The Guardian. 28 December 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ↑ Cain, Sian (8 December 2023). "Aacta awards 2024: The Newsreader, Deadloch and Colin from Accounts lead TV nominations". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ↑ Perry, Kevin (9 February 2024). "DEADLOCH, THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART Triumph at 2024 AACTA Awards". TV Black Box. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ↑ Story, Hannah (24 March 2026). "The Kates, Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney, take crime comedy Deadloch to Darwin". ABC News. Archived from the original on 24 March 2026. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- ↑ "Prime Video's global hit series Deadloch returns in March 2026". AU About Amazon. 13 November 2025. Archived from the original on 3 January 2026. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- ↑ Sally Rugg [@sallyrugg] (3 January 2022). "IMPORTANT RETRACTION TO MY 2019 MEMOIR" (Tweet) – via Twitter.