Kate Duchêne
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Kate Duchêne (born Catherine Anne Purves Duchêne, 5 July 1959) is an English actress best known for her role as the teacher Miss Hardbroom in the adaptation of the children's books The Worst Witch. Duchêne started to act at the age of 14. She studied French and Spanish at Trinity College, Cambridge in the 1980s, where she became a member of the Footlights theatre group, writing and performing her own material. She also acted with the Cambridge Mummers, appearing in such plays as Measure For Mea...
Known For
Filmography
National Theatre at Home: The Land of the Living
2025
as Dora
National Theatre Live: Henry V
2022
as Exeter / Constable of France
Avenue 5
2020
as Curtis
Roxane
2019
as Wendy
National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
2017
as Juliana
National Theatre Live: Everyman
2015
as God / Good Deeds
Henry VIII - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2010
as Queen Katherine
All Good Children
2010
as Lynne
An Education
2009
as Latin Teacher
Afterlife
2005
as Barbara Sinyard
Monsieur N.
2003
as Madame Balcombe
Foyle's War
2002
as Helen Fraser
The Worst Witch
1998
The Worst Witch
1998
as Miss Constance Hardbroom
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Jane Bennett
Peak Practice
1993
as Jenny Ryan
The Tall Guy
1989
as Old Girlfriend