[31] They have two children, a son Morgan Ivor (born May 14, 1988), who is an actor,[32][33] and a daughter Charlotte Frances (born January 19th, 1998). Kate Burton recently appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award wining musical Spring Awakening. Martyrs (2015). Kate has also starred on Broadway in The Beauty Queen of Leenane (also UK/Ireland tour), An American Daughter, Jake's Women, Some Americans Abroad (Drama Desk nomination) and Present Laughter (Theater World Award). ‘Succession’ power struggle in guest actress: Will Cherry Jones and Harriet Walter’s matriarchs split the vote? Relationships. [28], For the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, Lesli Linka Glatter received a nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the series finale "Prisoners of War". [30] They met in 1982, while Ritchie was stage manager of a revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City in which Burton was playing the character Daphne. Kate was Tony nominated as the title character in The Constant Wife for the Roundabout Theatre, directed by Mark Brokaw and appeared in The Water's Edge opposite Tony Goldwyn at the Second Stage Theatre. Thirty-five years and many TV shows later, “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal” among them, she’s back in “Present Laughter.” No longer the ingénue, she plays Kevin Kline’s character’s ex-wife. He was one of the first stars to take over in a role created by someone else.” (He repeated that role in the 1977 movie. Katherine Burton is a Swiss-born Welsh-American actress, daughter of actor Richard Burton and Sybil Burton. Burton was born on September 10, 1957, in Geneva, Switzerland, to Sybil Christopher and Richard Burton. Your Ad Choices Nora Ephron thought so, too. She has appeared for thirteen seasons at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Kendal in the revival of The Elephant Man. Video: Watch a Scandal Reunion on Stars In The House, 29 July 2020 See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Series Directed by . She received raves for the Williamston production of The Corn is Green directed by Nicholas Martin, starring opposite her son, Morgan Ritchie, and completed the City Center revival of Applause with Christine Ebersole. The site's critical consensus is, "Homeland returns to form with a tautly thrilling final season that fittingly finishes the job Carrie Mathison started all those years ago. [23] In August 2019, Showtime delayed the premiere again to February 2020; Levine stated, "Homeland is an ambitious series — especially in its final season. On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has an approval rating of 85% based on 25 reviews, with an average rating of 7.27/10. [Showrunner] Alex [Gansa] wants to go out proudly, and that has involved production in multiple countries at times and in places that have some issues. [18] Since 2012, she plays the recurring role of Vice President Sally Langston in the ABC hit show Scandal, for which she again received an Emmy nomination. - Kate Burton on why her father, actor Richard Burton, never saw her perform in college. Jan 7, 2018 Showtime Releases HOMELAND Posters & New Teaser for Season 7. "[19], Burton has been perhaps most prolific in her work on television. She made many television appearances in the late 1980s and 1990s on such episodic shows as Spenser: For Hire, All My Children, and Brooklyn Bridge. She received raves for the Williamston production of The Corn is Green directed by Nicholas Martin, starring opposite her son, Morgan Ritchie, and completed the City Center revival of Applause with Christine Ebersole. The following year, she appeared in the Broadway production of Doonesbury, playing J.J. Burton also appeared as Alice in Eva Le Gallienne's Alice in Wonderland on Broadway, produced by The Mirror Theater Ltd's Sabra Jones. She was thus the stepdaughter of Elizabeth Taylor and of Sybil's second husband Jordan Christopher, both actors. “Of course, my father was iconic, though anybody under 40 will not know who he was.”, Kate was too young to have caught him in “Camelot,” in 1960, but recalls that 1974 day he took over Broadway’s “Equus.”, “They put him on without telling anyone,” she says. [10] On December 21, 2007, she joined the cast of the Broadway musical Spring Awakening[7] in the role of the Adult Women when she replaced actress Christine Estabrook. Katherine "Kate" Burton is a Swiss-born-American actress best known for her role as Doctor Ellis Grey in the hit medical drama series Grey's Anatomy.