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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


  • No Man's Land (2001)
    Starring: Branko Djuric,  Simon Callow,  Rene Bitorajac
    Director: Danis Tanovic
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dani Tanovic's debut film, about the futility of the Bosnian War, stars Branko Duric as Ciki, a Bosnian soldier with really bad luck. When he and a few other relief soldiers try to join their Bosnian comrades on the front, they get lost in fog, fall asleep, and are awakened at dawn by Serbian ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,921 members
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  • From Hell - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Johnny Depp,  Heather Graham,  Ian Holm
    Director: Albert Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    FROM HELL is a gory detective film cloaked in Victorian-era mystique. The movie shows how the serial killer Jack the Ripper stalked the dark streets of 1888 London, slaying prostitutes and crudely dissecting their bodies. Based on the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, this ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,006 members
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  • From Hell on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jason Flemyng,  Susan Lynch,  Paul Rhys
    Director: Albert Hughes,  Allen Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    FROM HELL is a gory detective film cloaked in Victorian-era mystique. The movie shows how the serial killer Jack the Ripper stalked the dark streets of 1888 London, slaying prostitutes and crudely dissecting their bodies. Based on the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, this ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 15,740 members
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  • The Weight of the Water on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Catherine McCormack,  Sarah Polley,  Sean Penn
    Director: Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two stories unravel simultaneously in this dark and suspenseful film. The first story, set in the present day, concerns a photographer, Jean (Catherine McCormack). She is working on an article for a magazine about a pair of bloody murders that happened 200 years before on the Isle of Shoals, just ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,255 member
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  • Hotel Splendide (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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 11 members
    Due for release on 28th May 2012
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  • The Lost Son (1999)
    Starring: Daniel Auteuil,  Nastassja Kinski,  Katrin Cartlidge
    Director: Chris Menges
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In THE LOST SON, disgraced former French policeman Xavier Lombard (French actor Daniel Auteuil of JEAN DE FLORETTE) is living in exile in London and working as a private investigator. When Lombard takes up the seemingly routine assignment of finding a rich family's missing drug-addicted son, the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 411 members
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  • Career Girls on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Mark Benton,  Katrin Cartlidge,  Lynda Steadman
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Mike Leigh follows up his Oscar-nominated SECRETS AND LIES with CAREER GIRLS, a bittersweet drama that deals with the passage of time between two friends. Annie (Lynda Steadman) and Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge) were college roommates in London. Six years later, Annie is taking the train back ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,571 members
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  • Breaking The Waves on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Emily Watson,  Stellan Skarsgard,  Katrin Cartlidge
    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 68% from 6,972 members
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  • Before The Rain on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Katrin Cartlidge,  Rade Serbedzija,  Grégoire 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 71% from 250 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 5,583 members
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Katrin Cartlidge facts

5 most recent films

Searching For Debra Winger - 3.0 stars
No Man's Land - 3.5 stars
From Hell - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
From Hell - 3.0 stars
The Weight of the Water - 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 - 3.0 stars
Hotel Splendide - 3.5 stars
The Weight of the Water - 2.5 stars
Claire Dolan - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Lesley Sharp - 5 times - show films
Jason Flemyng - 4 times - show films
Johnny Depp - 4 times - show films
Heather Graham - 4 times - show films
Susan Lynch - 4 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
Constantine Giannaris - 1 times - show films