Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Aliases - Katharine Isobel, Katherine Isobel, Kate Murray, Katharine Isobel Murray, and Katie Murray.
Seen in: Disturbing Behavior (1998)
Ginger Snaps (2000)
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Ginger Snaps: Unleashed (2004)
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
"The Englishman's Boy" (2008) TV mini-series
In the states, and pretty much everywhere Katherine Isabelle is best known for her role as the older Fitzgerald sister, Ginger.
It's easily one of the best werewolf movies I've ever seen, and if you compare it to the ill-conceived "Cursed," then it's a fucking masterpiece.
Katherine is one of those actresses that seems to take to genre fiction like a duck to water. Either that, or she got trapped in the horror/genre ghetto.
Following Ginger Snaps (and it's sequels) her roles in larger films like Insomnia were small.
Katherine Isabelle was quoted as saying:
"You do these Canadian independent movies, you build up a name, and then you've gotta do shitty TV episodes just to pay your bills. It's hard to build your career when you keep on having to backtrack to do crappy things to pay for what you're doing. So it's kind of a weird situation. "
And that about it sums it up.
But from a fans perspective, of course, she'll always be huge. That is huge like Adrienne Barbeau. Which is fine. Things could be worse than signing autographs at horror/comicon conventions.
She may build inroads into the US film industry, sort of the way Asia Argento did. But that's way up in the air.
Recently, Katherine Isabelle was nominated for a Gemini for her work in the mini-series The Englishman's Boy.
I'm a huge fan of Ginger Snaps and so my first blog goes to the girl who played lycanthrope, homicidal Ginger Fitzgerald.
Ginger: I get this ache... And I, I thought it was for sex, but it's to tear everything to fucking pieces.
For more information on Katherine Isabelle go to:
http://www.geocities.com/womenofhorror/ginger.html
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