Kate Lonergan is a British actress who began her screen career with her best known role—Marian in the 1989–94 BBC One

BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

 children's television series Maid Marian and her Merry Men

Maid Marian and her Merry Men

Maid Marian and her Merry Men is a British children's sitcom created and written by Tony Robinson and directed by David Bell. It began in 1989 on BBC One and ran for four series, with the last episode shown in 1994...

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Career

Prior to being cast as Marian, Kate Lonergan had only played two bit parts in a couple of films (Testimony of a Child, The Tall Guy

The Tall Guy

The Tall Guy is a 1989 romantic comedy and the feature film debut of screenwriter Richard Curtis and director Mel Smith. It was produced by London Weekend Television for theatrical release and stars Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson, and Rowan Atkinson...

) earlier in the year. She has since appeared in numerous episodes of TV series, including the miniseries Terry and Julian

Terry and Julian

Terry and Julian is a British sitcom that aired on Channel 4 in 1992. Starring Julian Clary, it was written by Clary, Paul Merton and John Henderson...

(1992) and Four Fathers (1999), as well as The Bill

The Bill

The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...

, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is a genteel British crime–comedy drama television series which aired from 1996 to 1998 on BBC One. The series starred Patricia Routledge as the title character , Derek Benfield as her patient husband Robert, Dominic Monaghan as their lodger Geoffrey Shawcross...

, Born and Bred

Born and Bred

Born and Bred is a light-hearted British drama series that aired on BBC One from 2002 to 2005. Created by Chris Chibnall and Nigel McCrery, Born and Breds cast was led by James Bolam and Michael French, who play a father and son who run a cottage hospital in Ormston, a fictional Lancashire village...

, Doctors and Blue Heaven

Blue Heaven

Blue Heaven is a British television sitcom that starred Frank Skinner, Conleth Hill and Paula Wilcox. It featured guest stars such as Bill Bailey, Philip Glenister and John Thomson. It first appeared on Channel 4 as a one-off pilot in the series Bunch of Five in 1992, and was followed by one series...

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