Kate Maberly Movies and Career Information

Kate Elizabeth Cameron Maberly (born 14 March 1982) is an English actress and musician. She has appeared in film, television, radio and on stage. Maberly was born in Surrey, England. She is the daughter of an attorney and one of five children; her older sister Polly is an actress as well. She has two older brothers, Thomas and Guy, and one younger brother, Jack. Maberly attended Dunottar School, Reigate. Maberly joined a swimming team when she was 5 years old, and was a county champion swimmer up to the age of 16. She represented her county in tennis from the age of 12, and since 2000 has won various tennis club leagues in London. Maberly skipped a year of school, and graduated from London's Trinity College of Music in 2004 with a joint honours degree in piano and cello performance. She enjoys singing, and writing music. Her breakthrough role came in 1993 when she starred as Mary Lennox in the feature film The Secret Garden. This internationally acclaimed performance paved the way for several subsequent leading roles, including Ira in the 1995 movie Friendship's Field, the blind girl Dinah Bellman in the 1995 movie The Langoliers, and Vanessa in the 1997 BBC TV Drama