Cathryn Harrison (Actor)

Reviews of Cathryn Harrison Movies

Looking for reviews of Cathryn Harrison movies? Cinafilm has a total of 544 reviews across 7 movies.

Movies starring Cathryn Harrison have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.

The Dresser - released in 1983 - is Cathryn Harrison's highest rated movie, with a score of 76% based on 43 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Cathryn Harrison is The Pied Piper - released in 1972 - with a score of 48% based on 4 reviews.

Actor Biography

​Cathryn Mary Lee Harrison (born 29 May 1959) is an English actress. Cathryn was baptised on 27 September 1959 at St.John's Church,Hampstead,London,England. She is the daughter of the actor and singer Noel Harrison and Sara Lee Eberts and also the grand daughter of legendary actor Sir Rex Harrison.Her brother Simon Harrison is also an actor as well as her sister Harriet Harrison. She has a brother Will and a sister Chloe from her father's second marriage, and an older sister Zoe from her mother's first marriage to Carleton John Richard Tufnell. In May 1996 she married Paul Laing the son of Ronald David Laing and uses that name since then. Her most notable performances include Lily in Black Moon as well as many made-for-television movies including Portrait of a Marriage where she plays Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville West's lesbian lover. She began her career in Robert Altman's Images and after two decades of low roles, started a career in British television and radio dramas. She appeared in Love on a Branch Line and an 1977 Australian film called Blue Fire Lady. She also appeared as Major Tom Cadman's wife in the ITV series Soldier Soldier, and played wardrobe assistant Irenie in the film version of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser .

Cathryn Harrison has acted in films with Michael Gough, Susannah York, Timothy Bateson and John Sharp.

Cathryn Harrison has worked with these film directors: Robert Altman, Andrei Konchalovsky, Peter Yates and Jacques Demy.