Kate Brooke

Kate Brooke, Lady Lovegrove is a British screenwriter.^[1]

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.^[2]

Career

While working in the theatre, she adapted a number of works for the stage,^[3] 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^[4]	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
Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback	Television film (2007)	ITV
Wired^[1]	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

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Work	Category	Result	Reference
2007	Edgar Allan Poe Awards	Secret Smile	Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay (shared with Nicci Gerrard)	Nominated

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.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "Wired". The Telegraph. 11 October 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
^ Woods, Judith (14 December 2012). "Christmas TV drama has a new star written all over it". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
^ The Agency web-site, accessed on 6 January 2013
^ Brooke, Sally Phillips,Kate (8 August 2024). Protesting Too Much.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B3.

External links

Kate Brooke at the British Film Institute^{[better source needed]}
Kate Brooke at IMDb

[ref9-1] "Wired". The Telegraph. 11 October 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2024.

[2] Woods, Judith (14 December 2012). "Christmas TV drama has a new star written all over it". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 April 2024.

[3] The Agency web-site, accessed on 6 January 2013

[4] Brooke, Sally Phillips,Kate (8 August 2024). Protesting Too Much.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[5] "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B3.

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