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Kate Burton

Born 1957-09-10

📍 Geneva, Switzerland

Kate Burton is a Swiss-born Welsh-American stage and screen actress. She is best known for her TV roles as Vice President Sally Langston on ABC's Scandal, Vera Quinn on the Audience Network's series Full Circle, and Dr. Ellis Grey on ABC's Grey's Anatomy.

She holds an BA in Russian Studies and European History from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, New Haven, Connecticut.

Filmography 115

The Beast in Me

as Mariah Ingram

as Darlene Woodley

Oscar Wilde About America

as Maggie "Miggie"

Heaven, I Suppose

The Anne Frank Gift Shop

So Help Me Todd

as Tami Stackhouse

as Rochelle Gibbons

as Nora Radford

Sandra Day O'Connor: The First

as Narrator (voice)

The Mosquito Coast

as Margot's Mom

The Codebreaker

as Narrator (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

Perfect Harmony

as Sarah Windsor

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

as Ellen Idelson

as Evelyn Kates

Noël Coward's Present Laughter

as Liz Essendine

as Dr. Madeline Risman

as Isabel Nal (voice)

Madam Secretary

as Maureen McCord

Don't Look Back

as Dr. Jeanette Barnes

as Fiona Stanton

as Mrs. Wheeler

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center

Mariachi Gringo

as Maureen Dannon

as Barbara Hallowes

as Sally Langston

2 Days in New York

as Hillary Clinton

as Marie Kessler

as Senator O'Reilly

as Grace Graham

as Iris Fennerman

as Victoria Adler

Washingtonienne

as Alice Spooner

What Just Happened

as Doctor Randall

as Nicole Horne

as Gepetto / Miranda Cochran

Hidden Treasure of the Mississippi

as Marcia Swanson

Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea

as Narrator (voice)

as Cindy Whiting

as Anthropologist

as Bonnie Barrister

Working Shakespeare

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer

as Connie Posey

as Carla Cronin

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Stephanie Ufland

100 Centre Street

as Sheila Byrne

The Opportunists

as Rest Home Sister

as Sarah Brainerd

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Annette Cole

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Dr. Bethany Allen

as Dr. Sheri Jordan

as Robin's Friend Cheryl

as Abigail Montford

as Dorothy Franklin

as A.D.A. Susan Alexander

as Katherine Donohue

Looking for Richard

The First Wives Club

as Woman in Bed

as Helen Blathwaite

as Fran Richardson

Life with Mikey

Brooklyn Bridge

as Sister Bettina

as Erica Gardner

as Defense Attorney Erica Gardner

American Experience

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Big Trouble in Little China

Spenser: For Hire

as Agatha Bradford

as Vanessa Ogden

Alice in Wonderland

Great Performances

Anne of the Thousand Days

as Serving Maid (uncredited)

as Self - Nominee

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Death on the Brandywine