Kate Orsini

Kate Orsini is an American actress, writer, and translator. Born in Talladega, Alabama, she left for New York right after high school, then moved on to Los Angeles. Her double major in French Literature and Theatre from Vassar, where she earned Phi Beta Kappa, has helped approximately zero times, she jokes. On screen, she has been, among other things, Maria Bello's ex, Robert Patrick's hooker nemesis, Hank Azaria's hooker nemesis, Hayden Panettiere's lawyer nemesis, Gina Rodriguez's yuppie nemesis, Ed Begley Jr.'s angry daughter, Malcolm McDowell's homicidal daughter, Octavia Spencer's needy patient, and the fertility specialist for a biracial transgender couple. She was also briefly a demon in actual hell. Her original translation and adaptation of Moliere's "Tartuffe," set in Roy-Moore era Alabama, has played for two seasons at Birmingham's Virginia Samford Theatre. She has performed Shakespeare on stage, Chekhov on film, and her own material in every medium available. That culminated in the zoom episodic she co-wrote and starred in, "The Corona Dialogues," for which she won Best Actress at The Indie Fest Awards.