Acting
Mar 12, 1984
Kate Liquorish
Acting
Biography
Kate Liquorish is a South African actor who started her work on stage, garnering multiple award nominations, including best actress and best supporting actress at the esteemed Fleur De Cap Theatre Awards, which focuses on professional productions in and around South Africa. Liquorish is equally as talented on screen; the actor has achieved the seminal experience of acting opposite Dame Helen Mirren in Gavin Hood’s “Eye In the Sky”, a thriller film which was produced by Colin Firth, whilst in BET’s series Madiba the actor stars alongside the likes of Laurence Fishburne of The Matrix, Orlando Jones of American Gods and David Harewood of Supergirl, with Liquorish playing the iconic political activist Ruth First. Liquorish’s most recent project includes starring alongside Pearl Thusi, a prestigious actor, model, television and radio personality, in Africa’s first netflix Original Queen Sono. Queen Sono was so spectacularly beloved that many fans have been begging for a second season, despite only dropping in 2020. Queen Sono saw African talent take over the big screen, and saw Liquorish play the role of eKaterina Gromova. Other projects for the actor include in television series Still Breathing, which is a deeply poignant show discussing a group of friends who, after having drifted apart, reconnect after tragedy has struck. Liqourish also produces her own podcast, and posts to her followers, which numbers over 4 thousand, about her various interests which include cooking and writing.
Feature Films (6)
Regret and redemption take center stage as Sondra, struggling actor and professional mess, faces the consequences of a lifetime of her own bad decisions
Do Your Worst
A married couple, whose relationship is falling apart, are forced to confront those fractures when they realise that history may be repeating itself. But not in a way they could ever have anticipated.
Awake
An entertaining comedy that pokes fun at the melting pot that is Cape Town as two families from different walks of life are forced to spend the holidays together.
Twisted Christmas
A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
Eye in the Sky
Set in a chic and middle class Johannesburg, a jaded academic and his journalist wife have their lives turned upside down when a celebrated and hedonistic older writer unexpectedly moves into their home.
Catching Feelings
Rodney Alcala commits a series of grisly murders in the 1970s. While the mother of one of his victims desperately searches for answers, Rodney maintains his intelligent, smooth-talking persona, even appearing as a bachelor on "The Dating Game."
Dating Game Killer
Television & Series (2)
A deeply moving drama series about a group of old friends who have drifted apart as they have grown older. They are brought together when tragedy strikes.
Still Breathing
A dramatization of Nelson Mandela's struggle to overturn apartheid in South Africa.