Kathleen Garrett

Kathleen Garrett is an American actress, author, and voice-over talent.

Career

Kathleen Garrett recurs in the series Power Book II: Ghost on Starz! and Inventing Anna on Netflix. She is also in The Trial of the Chicago 7 directed by Aaron Sorkin. She recurred on Law & Order as Judge Susan Moretti and several episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as well as multiple guest star roles in other series.

Garrett performed in and co-produced the solo play, The Last Flapper by William Luce at the Tiffany Theatres in Los Angeles, receiving positive reviews.[1]

Garrett played the role of a Vulcan captain in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Vortex".[2] She later appeared in Star Trek: Voyager episode "Muse" as Tanis (Kelis' species), a stage actor who portrays Captain Kathryn Janeway.[3] Garrett worked again with Star Trek: Voyager actor Robert Beltran in Beltran's production of Hamlet, playing the role of Gertrude.[4] Garrett played the role of Mrs. Alving in the New York City production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts at the Century Theatre.[5]

Garrett voiced the role of Pamela Voorhees in trailers for the 2009 Friday the 13th, causing a controversy. Betsy Palmer thought it was her own voice in the film and threatened to sue Paramount.[6] Paramount stated that it would be impossible to pull clean audio from the original film, since the dialogue was tied to music and sound effects, which is why they brought in Garrett to recite the iconic lines.

Garrett appeared in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode based on the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, as a character based on Anne Sinclair, the then-wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.[7]

She continues to work in television, film, theatre, commercials and voice-overs.

Awards

As part of the cast of The Trial Of The Chicago 7, Garrett received the 2020 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.[8] She also won Clio Award for Outstanding Performance of an Actor in a Commercial.[9][10] She was awarded the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, the Back Stage Garland Award, the Robbie Award, Ovation Nomination and LA Weekly nomination for her performance in the West Coast Premiere of Jean Cocteau's Indiscretions.[11][12][13][14][15]

Personal life

Garret's memoir short-story The 'Figgers': The Day a 12 Year-Old Foiled the FBI, telling how she and her sisters foiled an FBI arrest of her father, is published in two parts by Zocalo Public Square and syndicated internationally.[16][17][18]

References
  1. Frym, Michael (June 23, 1992). "Zelda, the Last Flapper". Variety.com. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  2. TV.com (1993-04-18). "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 1, Episode 12: Vortex". TV.com. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  3. TV.com (2000-04-26). "Star Trek: Voyager - Season 6, Episode 22: Muse". TV.com. Archived from the original on 2020-12-02. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  4. Foley, F. Kathleen (April 25, 1997). "'Star Trek's' Beltran Delivers a Solid 'Hamlet' - latimes". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  5. Bruckner, D. J. R. (November 26, 1999). "Theater Review; Yielding to Social Sham: The Sin in Ibsen's Creed". The New York Times. p. E4. Retrieved August 19, 2022.
  6. "Betsy Palmer on the New Friday the 13th". Shock Till You Drop. 2009-01-29. Archived from the original on 2009-02-03. Retrieved 2009-02-19. So spot-on was Garrett's voice-over work that the trailer caused much controversy, as Betsy Palmer was convinced that they actually used her voice from the original film without asking her permission.
  7. Campbell, Andy (17 August 2011). "'DSK' on a role". New York Post. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  8. Petski, Denise; Hammond, Pete (April 4, 2021). "SAG Awards: 'The Trial Of The Chicago 7' Wins For Motion Picture Cast; 'The Crown', 'Schitt's Creek' Lead TV — The Complete Winners List". Deadline.
  9. "The 1990 Clio Awards: The Best TV Commercials in the World". Hollywood.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  10. Loynd, Ray (June 14, 1992). "Actress's Obsession With Jazz Age Golden Girl Lands Her the Part". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 19, 2022.
  11. Shirley, Don (March 17, 1999). "Revivals Dominate Drama Critics Circle Awards for '98". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  12. "Articles about Garland Awards". Los Angeles Times. 1998-05-15. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  13. "1990 – 1999 Awards." Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2013.
  14. Morris, Steven Leigh (1999-01-06). "Our 20th Annual Theater Awards Nominees". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  15. "THE 1998 THEATRE LA OVATION AWARDS: And the nominees are". Backstage.com. 21 February 2001. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  16. Garrett, Kathleen (2016-02-17). "What Are Three Teenagers Supposed to Do When the FBI Raids Their House?". Zócalo Public Square. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  17. Garrett, Kathleen (2016-02-16). "I Could Never Talk to My Dad About How I Saved Him From Prison". Zócalo Public Square. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  18. "Kathleen Garrett Stories". Digg. Archived from the original on 2016-03-01. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
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