Kate McCartney

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Kate McCartney
Born Perth, Australia
MediumStand-up comedian, writer, actor, illustrator
NationalityAustralian
Genres observational comedy, character comedy, parody and satire
Partner(s) Sally Rugg (2022–present; engaged)
Children1
Notable works and roles
The Katering Show
Get Krack!n
Deadloch

Kate McCartney is an Australian comedian, writer, actor and illustrator. She is a frequent collaborator with Kate McLennan, which has led to their being dubbed the Kates.

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Early and personal life

She was born in Perth, moved to Sydney but grew up in Camberwell, Victoria. She later moved to the Melbourne suburb Preston and had a daughter, Millie, in early 2015. [1] [2] [3] In 2022, she became engaged to Sally Rugg. [4]

Career

McCartney worked as a comedian and also worked in animation. Her television writing credits have included Big Bite , Hamish & Andy , Adam Hills Tonight and Spicks and Specks . [5]

She met Kate McLennan in 2011 after McLennan voiced a character in an animation for her. [6] Due to the number of subsequent collaborations with McLennan, the pair have been dubbed the Kates in the media. [7]

McCartney co-created the web series Bleak with McLennan in 2010, about being a single 30-something, which won the Kit Denton Disfellowship for Courage and Excellence in Performance Writing at the 2011 AWGIE Awards, worth A$30,000. [8]

With McLennan, she created a cooking-based web series called The Katering Show which screened initially on their YouTube channel in 2014. A second season of The Katering Show was screened on the ABC TV and then on ABC iview in 2016. [9] [10]

In 2017, McCartney collaborated with McLennan for ABC Television to create the comedy Get Krack!n , in which they played breakfast show television presenters. [11]

In 2021, they created Slushy, a workplace comedy set in the Australian Antarctic research base, that was available as a podcast on Audible. [12]

McCartney and McLennan wrote the 2023 Amazon Prime Video series Deadloch starring Kate Box, [13] which garnered positive reviews, [14] and won McCartney a Best Television Script Writing Award and Box a Best Actress Award, at the AACTA Awards in February 2024. [15] [16]

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