Kate Goehring is an American stage, film and television actress.
Goehring grew up on Mason's Island. [1] Her father, Edmund Goehring, Sr., was a Commander in the Navy in World War II and a vice president of sales for an electronics company. [2] Her mother, Helen Goehring, was a writer and development director. [3]
Goehring graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in American Romantic Fiction. [1]
Goehring has won Best Performance by An Actor at the York Shorts International Film Festival for her work in the short film Bad Mother. [4] She co-starred in the independent feature Swimmers , and she has appeared in Law & Order , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent . Goehring also played Myra Kraft in American Sports Story . She starred opposite David Jason as Detective Grace Wallace in ITV's March in Windy City. Other co-starring roles include Stella , Gossip Girl , One Life to Live , ER , and The Untouchables . Goehring also originated the character of Magenta in the video game Grand Theft Auto V . She has been nominated for a Chicago local Emmy for her performance in John Logan's Moment of Rage, [5] starring Denis O'Hare.
Goehring first garnered notice for her Chicago performance in Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild for which she won a Joseph Jefferson Citation. [6] She played Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner's first national tour of Angels in America , which earned her a Miami Carbonell Award. [7] Goehring was in the Broadway production of "The Inheritance", [8] directed by Stephen David Daldry.
Early on in Chicago, Goehring was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Candida at the Court Theatre.[ citation needed ] She worked with the Court Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Northlight Theatre, [9] and Bailiwick Repertory Theatre. [10] She earned her Equity Card in the process [11] Other more recent credits include playing Vivian Bearing, PhD, in Margaret Edson's Wit , at North Carolina Theatre, for which she won Best Actress in a Play (Broadway World/Raleigh); and Mother Radiunt in the Triad Stage world premiere of Radiunt Abundunt. [12]
Other regional work includes playing Eleanor of Aquitane in the Folger Shakespeare Library production of Shakespeare's "The Life and Death of King John", [13] and Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest" at New York Classical Theatre. Additional regional work includes theaters such as Intiman, A Contemporary Theatre, Arena Stage, the McCarter Theatre, the Huntington Theatre Company, the Triad Stage, and Milwaukee Repertory. [14] She played Bella opposite Judy Kaye in Lost in Yonkers at the Arizona Theatre Company. [15]
Goehring has received:
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