Kate Burton
Born in Geneva, Switzerland — Sep 10 1957
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Biography
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.
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Kate Burton's Credits
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Grey's Anatomy
Ellis Grey
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Annette Cole
Law & Order
Sister Bettina
Modern Family
Iris Fennerman
Grimm
Marie Kessler
FBI
Evelyn Kates
The West Wing
Sarah Brainerd
The Good Wife
Victoria Adler
Elementary
Maureen Dannon
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Stephanie Ufland
The Closer
Kate Wycoff
This Is Us
Barbara
Great Performances
Alice
Medium
Bonnie Barrister
American Experience
Narrator
Supergirl
Isabel Nal (voice)
Scandal
Sally Langston
The Practice
A.D.A. Susan Alexander
Numb3rs
Anthropologist
Judging Amy
Dr. Sheri Jordan
Veep
Barbara Hallowes
The Gifted
Dr. Madeline Risman
Bosch: Legacy
Ida Porter
13 Reasons Why
Dr. Hughes
Madam Secretary
Maureen McCord
Extant
Fiona Stanton
Prodigal Son
Sarah Windsor
Swimfan
Carla Cronin
Key & Peele
Hillary Clinton
So Help Me Todd
Joan
Rescue Me
Rose
The Mosquito Coast
Margot's Mom
Charmed
Celeste
The Beast in Me
Mariah Ingram
Spenser: For Hire
Eleventh Hour
Gepetto / Miranda Cochran
Revolution
Jane Warren
100 Centre Street
Sheila Byrne
Inventing Anna
Nora Radford
The Dropout
Rochelle Gibbons
Unfaithful
Tracy
Brooklyn Bridge
Justice
The Deep End
Grace Graham
Perfect Harmony
Julie
Big Trouble in Little China
Margo
Monty
Fran Richardson
127 Hours
Aron's Mom
The Ice Storm
Dorothy Franklin
Full Circle
Vera Quinn
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Abigail
Barefoot
Mrs. Wheeler
Empire Falls
Cindy Whiting
Dumb Money
Elaine Gill
Stay
Mrs. Letham
Working Shakespeare
Evergreen
Agatha Bradford
Remember Me
Janine
Max Payne
Nicole Horne
The First Wives Club
Woman in Bed
Home Fires
Anne Kramer
Liberal Arts
Susan
Ellis Island
Vanessa Ogden
Martyrs
Eleanor
Breaking
Tami Stackhouse
Spooner
Alice Spooner
The Surrender
Barbara
Celebrity
Robin's Friend Cheryl
Puncture
Senator O'Reilly
Mistrial
Katherine Donohue
Anne of the Thousand Days
Serving Maid (uncredited)
Looking for Richard
Self
What Just Happened
Doctor Randall
Our Son
Maggie "Miggie"
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self
Ellen Foster
Abigail Montford
Life with Mikey
Mrs. Burns
At First Light
Kate
Violent Ends
Darlene Woodley
Sherrybaby
Marcia Swanson
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Ellen Idelson
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
Connie Posey
Three Sisters
Olga
Noël Coward's Present Laughter
Liz Essendine
BULLDOZER
Dr. Diane Roddy
The Vote
Narrator (voice)
2 Days in New York
Bella
Bleeding Heart
Martha
August
Helen Blathwaite
The Opportunists
Rest Home Sister
Obsessed
Sara Miller
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Self
Alice in Wonderland
Alice
Quid Pro Quo
Merilee
Amok
Dr. Wilson
Hidden Treasure of the Mississippi
Aunt Birdy
Love Matters
Deborah
Consent
Susan
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ophelia
Mariachi Gringo
Anne
Washingtonienne
Joy
Don't Look Back
Dr. Jeanette Barnes
The Anne Frank Gift Shop
Ilse
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center
Mrs. Mullin
Oscar Wilde About America
Caris' Peace
Self
Heaven, I Suppose
Cheryl
Notes For My Daughter
Brenda Gardner
The Codebreaker
Narrator (voice)
Death on the Brandywine
Ann Riley
Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
Narrator (voice)
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Gabby
Identity Theft
Anna
Sandra Day O'Connor: The First
Narrator (voice)