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Katrin Cartlidge

Katrin Cartlidge was born on May 15th 1961 and sadly died on September 7th 2002 aged just 41.

She was a versatile actor who worked with directors such as Mike Leigh and Lars Von Trier.

Key films: Mike Leigh's 'Naked', Lars Von Trier's 'Breaking The Waves' and the little seen 'Claire Dolan', directed by Lodge Kerrigan.




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Katrin Cartlidge - what members say


  • Career Girls
  • Career Girls review by from Oxon
    Rated - 5.0 stars Oscarworthy 9 March 2005
    ...rs together in the end to recognise each other's value in wry celebration. Katrin Cartlidge's performance as Hannah swings from wild comedy to tragedy and back again, and ...   Read customer review
  • Breaking The Waves
  • Breaking The Waves review by from LONDON
    Rated - 2.0 stars 11 January 2004
    ...h real human issues. The performances are strong, particularly Emily Watson and Katrin Cartlidge. The visual style is appropriate for the material; gritty and realistic through...   Read customer review
  • Naked
  • Naked review by from Surrey, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars My all time favourite film 17 May 2007
    ...ey Sharp (calm, strong, and the only person who really understands Johnny), and Katrin Cartlidge (nervous, inferiority complex, needy), and even the sadistic loathsome landlord...   Read customer review

Katrin Cartlidge - filmography


  • From Hell - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Johnny Depp,  Heather Graham,  Ian Holm
    Director: Albert Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Johnny Depp stars as Inspector Abberline, the Victorian detective charged with catching Jack the Ripper, in this big screen adaptation of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's acclaimed graphic novel. Despite the fact that he is struggling with an opium addiction and the ghosts of his dead wife and child,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,191 members
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  • No Man's Land (2001)
    Starring: Rene Bitorajac,  Georges Siatidis,  Katrin Cartlidge
    Director: Danis Tanovic
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Danis Tanovic's award-winning comic drama set in the middle of the war between Bosnia and Serbia. Two soldiers from opposing sides, Bosnian Chiki (Branco Djuric) and Serb Nino (Rene Bitorajac), find themselves trapped together in a stalemate in no man's land. Both are similarly armed, and both are ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,014 members
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  • From Hell on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jason Fl,  Johnny Depp,  Heather Graham
    Director: Allen Hughes,  Albert Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Johnny Depp stars as Inspector Abberline, the Victorian detective charged with catching Jack the Ripper, in this big screen adaptation of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's acclaimed graphic novel. Despite the fact that he is struggling with an opium addiction and the ghosts of his dead wife and child,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 16,104 members
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  • Hotel Splendide on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Toni Collette,  Daniel Craig,  Katrin Cartlidge
    Director: Terence Gross
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The Hotel Splendide is on a remote and cold island, accessible only by a once-a-month ferry. It's a dark and dreary spa created by the late Dame Blanche, whose grown children now run the hotel according to her specifications, serving up ghastly seaweed and fish-based food and enema treatments. Kath,..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 130 members
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  • The Weight of the Water on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Joshua Lucas,  Katrin Cartlidge,  Sean Penn
    Director: Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jean (Catherine McCormack) and Thomas (Sean Penn) attempt to rekindle their failing marriage on a sailing trip with Thomas' brother Rich and his girlfriend Adaline (Liz Hurley). However Jean becomes tortured by images of the past, her husband's betrayal and the grisly murder of two young girls, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,292 member
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  • The Lost Son (1999)
    Starring: Bruce Greenwood,  Nastassja Kinski,  Katrin Cartlidge
    Director: Chris Menges
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Acclaimed French actor Daniel Auteil makes his English-language debut in this tense thriller from director Chris Menges. Xavier Lombard (Auteil) is a disgraced French policeman currently living in London and working as a private investigator. His latest case involves tracking down Leon, the drug-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 419 members
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  • Career Girls on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Joe Tucker,  Katrin Cartlidge,  Andy Serkis
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mike Leigh's first film after his international success Secrets and Lies was this comedy-drama about two former college roommates spending a weekend together -- the first time they've seen each other in six years. As teenagers, Annie (Lynda Steadman) was painfully shy, terribly nervous (so much so ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,674 members
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  • Breaking The Waves on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Emily Watson,  Katrin Cartlidge,  Stellan Skarsgard
    Director: Lars Von Trier
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    With Breaking The Waves, director Lars von Trier fashions an often disturbing tale of the singular power of love. Bess (the Oscar-nominated Emily Watson) is a naïve, borderline simple young woman who lives in a Scottish coastal town ruled by the religious doctrine of its council of elders. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 7,343 members
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  • Before The Rain on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Labina Mitevska,  Grégoire Colin,  Gregoire Colin
    Director: Milcho Manchevski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Milcho Manchevski's first feature film is a three-part story of the violence and political chaos tearing apart the newly independent nation of Macedonia (former Yugoslavia). In part one, Kiril (Grégoire Colin), an Orthodox monk, encounters Zamira (Labina Mitevska), a Muslim from Albania. Zamira is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 316 members
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  • Naked on DVD (1993)
    Starring: David Thewlis,  Lesley Sharp,  Katrin Cartlidge
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    David Thewlis is Johnny the ultimate anti-hero of the nineties - cold, cynical and immoral, yet at times both caring and passionate. His complex existence is sketched with the hand of a master, as violence and gentleness, comedy and tragedy go hand in hand through a landscape inhabited by the sort ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 5,878 members
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Katrin Cartlidge facts

5 most recent films

Searching For Debra Winger - 2.5 stars
From Hell - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
No Man's Land - 3.5 stars
From Hell - 3.0 stars
Hotel Splendide - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Before The Rain - 3.5 stars
No Man's Land - 3.5 stars
Breaking The Waves - 3.5 stars
Naked - 3.5 stars
From Hell - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Cherry Orchard - 2.0 stars
Searching For Debra Winger - 2.5 stars
The Weight of the Water - 2.5 stars
Hotel Splendide - 2.5 stars
Claire Dolan - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Lesley Sharp - 3 times - show films
Heather Graham - 2 times - show films
Grégoire Colin - 2 times - show films
Johnny Depp - 2 times - show films
Ciarán Hinds - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Albert Hughes - 4 times - show films
Kathryn Bigelow - 2 times - show films
Mike Leigh - 2 times - show films
Milcho Manchevski - 2 times - show films
Terence Gross - 1 times - show films