Kate Brooke Explained

Kate Brooke, Lady Lovegrove is a British screenwriter.

Early life and education

She was educated at Oxford, where she read English. After Oxford, she studied at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris before setting up her own theatre group in England.^[1]

Career

While working in the theatre, she adapted a number of works for the stage,^[2] including:

• Graham Greene’s The Tenth Man
• François Mauriac’s Thérèse Desqueyroux
• Guy de Maupassant’s Bel Ami
• Saki’s Beasts and Super-Beasts

Writing credits

Production	Notes	Broadcaster
Six Pairs of Pants	"Episode #1.1" (1995)	Channel 4
Family Affairs	12 episodes (1998–2000)	Channel 5
Protesting Too Much	6 episodes (co-written with Sally Phillips, 2000)	BBC Radio 4
Always and Everyone	"Episode #2.6" (2000)	ITV
Danielle Cable: Eyewitness	Television film (co-written with Terry Winsor, 2003)	ITV
The Forsyte Saga, Series II	Television miniseries (co-written with John Galsworthy and Phil Woods, 2003)	ITV
Secret Smile	Television film (2005)	ITV
	Television film (2007)	ITV
Wired	Television miniseries (2008)	ITV
Breaking the Mould	Television film (2009)	BBC Four
Case Sensitive	"The Point of Rescue" (2011)	ITV
The Making of a Lady	Television film (2012)	ITV
The Ice Cream Girls	Television miniseries (2013)	ITV
Mr Selfridge	11 episodes (co-written with Andrew Davies, 2013–)	ITV
Bancroft	4 part Thriller (2017)	ITV
A Discovery of Witches	5 episodes (2018)	Sky One

Personal life

In 1997, Brooks married Stephen Lovegrove. They have two daughters and live in London. Lovegrove was knighted in 2019 and since then Brooks holds the title of Lady Lovegrove.

External links

• Kate Brooke at the British Film Institute

Notes and References

1. News: The Daily Telegraph . 14 December 2012 . Christmas TV drama has a new star written all over it . Judith . Woods . 21 April 2024 .
2. The Agency web-site, accessed on 6 January 2013