Keith Burton, a Welsh-American performer, is the stepdaughter of Elizabeth Taylor.
Kate Burton was born in Swiss Geneva in 1957 on September 10. In 1979, the future celebrity received a bachelor's degree from Bruno University. She completed her studies at Yale High School of Theater in 1983.
The path to the heights of excellence
The girl's creative destiny was significantly influenced by her famous parents. Kate's father, famous actor Richard Burton, mother was producer Sybil Burton.
After the notorious parental divorce due to the departure of her father to Elizabeth Taylor, Kate moved with her mother to the United States. There they settled in New York, Manhattan, where the girl's childhood passed.
Kate retained the English citizenship she inherited from her father. However, she considers herself an American actress, because most of her life was spent in the United States.
The education of the future famous performer went in two directions. At Brown University, she studied European history and foreign languages, including Russian.
After graduation, the girl chose a career as a diplomat for herself. But later she changed her mind and went to study at the faculty of acting at the Graduate School of Theater Drama at Yale University.
Debuts
In 1982, Kate premiered on the Broadway stage. She starred in Present Laughter. Subsequently, Burton received a considerable number of theatrical awards for their numerous roles played over more than two decades.
Her film career began in 1969. Keth made her film debut with a small, almost imperceptible childhood episode in "Anne of the Thousand Days."
The main role in the motion picture was played by her father, Richard Burton. The break after the premiere was more than a decade. The aspiring actress then reappeared on screen in 1983 after filming Alice in Wonderland.
In 1984, she again co-starred with her father in the CBS mini-series Ellis Island. In 1986, she starred in Big Trouble in Little China, an action comedy directed by John Carpenter.
After successful work, Kate has already habitually disappeared from the screens. The reason was a theatrical career. Burton devoted most of her time to her in the eighties and nineties.
Television and film career
At times, the actress accepted invitations to work in interesting television projects. In 1996 she won an Emmy for her participation in the telenovela Notes for My Daughter.
The performer also played in episodes of the series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, starred in The West Wing, Fair Amy, The Good Wife, and The Snoop.
In 1996, Burton received an iconic role. She took part in the work on Hugh Wilson's comedy The First Wives Club.
Since then, the actress never left the cinema.
The most significant role of Kate Burton also took place in 1996. She was reincarnated as Helen Blatchwhite in the serial film "August".
The work of the performer took place in partnership with Anthony Hopkins.
In the project, he acted in two guises, a director and an actor at the same time.
The film, which has become a variation on Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya", fully retains the spirit of the classic work.
However, the fully authored text was not used by screenwriter Julian Mitchell.
Even the submission went in a completely different sequence, and the names were changed.
Awards and recognition
In 1997, Keith starred in Ice Wind, a drama by Ang Lee. She then starred in Celebrity, a Woody Allen comedy. In "The Departed," Connell's crime drama, the actress worked in 2000.
A couple of years later, she was offered the reincarnation of Tracy, the friend of the main character, played by Dine Lane in the dramatic thriller Unfaithful, directed by Adrian Light.
Simultaneously with the filming, Kate took part in another significant work. She became Carla Cronin, the mother of Ben, the protagonist of John Paulson's "The Fan".
2005 was the time of the complex and controversial drama "Stay". Burton got a prominent role in it. Experimental director Mark Forster filmed an atmospheric project, one of the most beautiful and saddest stories ever filmed.
The result is a ribbon-sensation. True, the picture remained underestimated. Since 2005, Burton has been reincarnating for two years as Alice Gray, the heroine of Grey's Anatomy, a former pioneering surgeon currently suffering from Alzheimer's.
Participation in the popular series brought the performer not only high praise from critics, but also nominations for an Emmy as the best guest actress in a drama series in 2006 and 2007.
Real life in present tense
On account of Kate at least forty roles in a variety of television and film projects.
Most of her characters are not protagonists. However, some works have received prestigious awards.
So, for the project for the ABC channel "Afterschool Special" Kate received an Emmy.
In 2009, the performer starred in three film projects. Among them, the work with Drake Doremus in Spooner stands out.
A year earlier, the actress took part in the work on the successful commercial action movie "Max Payne" by John Moore.
Renowned director and producer Shonda Rhimes in 2011 invited Kate to work on her TV series Scandal.
The actress was offered to become the vice president of Sally Langston.
Keith Burton is married. Her husband is stage director and performer Michael Richie.
There are two children in a happy creative family. The first child was the son of Morgan, who appeared in 1988. His younger sister, Charlotte Francis, was born ten years later.
