Kate Gilmore is a stage and television actress from Artane, Dublin[1] best known for playing Karen O'Neill in RTÉ One's Fair City.[2] She has played Lucy in Striking Out since 2017.
In 2015, she won an Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress.[3] In 2016 she starred with Sam Keeley in The Nation Holds Its Breath, a short film directed by Kev Cahill.[4] In 2012 she participated in the first series of The Voice of Ireland as part of Bressie's team, before being eliminated at the "battles" stage.
In 2024 Gilmore played the Actress in a Gate Theatre-Sydney Theatre Company co-production of Thomas Bernhard's The President starring Hugo Weaving, in both Dublin, and Sydney.[5] [6]
She is an only child.