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Kathryn Hunter (born Aikaterini Hadjipateras, 9 April 1957) is an award-winning English actress and theatre director. Hunter was born in New York to Greek parents but brought up in the UK. She trained at RADA where she is now an associate, and regularly directs student productions. In her stage work, Hunter is particularly associated with physical theatre and has worked with renowned companies in that field including Shared Experience and Complicite. She won an Olivier Award in 1990 for playing the millionairess in Friedrich Durrenmatt's The Visit. Hunter was the first British actress to... MORE

Kathryn Hunter (born Aikaterini Hadjipateras, 9 April 1957) is an award-winning English actress and theatre director. Hunter was born in New York to Greek parents but brought up in the UK. She trained at RADA where she is now an associate, and regularly directs student productions. In her stage work, Hunter is particularly associated with physical theatre and has worked with renowned companies in that field including Shared Experience and Complicite. She won an Olivier Award in 1990 for playing the millionairess in Friedrich Durrenmatt's The Visit. Hunter was the first British actress to play King Lear professionally and has played a number of other male characters including in The Bee, directed by Hideki Noda, which played at the Soho Theatre in June 2006. She has toured internationally in the first English-language production of Fragments a collection of short plays by Samuel Beckett, directed by Peter Brook. In 2008, she was made an Artistic Associate at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In January to March 2009, she directed a touring RSC production of Othello at the Warwick Arts Centre, Hackney Empire, Northern Stage, Oxford Playhouse and Liverpool Playhouse. Her husband is LESS