Katherine Pearce

Katherine Anne Pearce (born August 1990) is an English actress, known for her work in television and film, as well as on stage. Her television roles include Lolly in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and Amy Spratt in the BBC drama series Waterloo Road. Her stage credits include Woyzeck, A Streetcar Named Desire and King John, The Whip and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Life and career

Katherine Anne Pearce was born in August 1990 in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside. She studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama before graduating in 2012, and prior to this had appeared in productions of Cats and Chicago as a teenager. Her first credited role was in the BBC Radio 4 drama The Righteous Sisters as Ismay Brown. In 2013, She subsequently went on to make her stage debut in Port at the Royal National Theatre. She also appeared in Our Pals at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, before embarking on four shows with the Secret Theatre that included Woyzeck, A Streetcar Named Desire, Chamber Piece and Glitterland. The same year, Pearce made her television debut as Katy in the pilot of the BBC military drama Our Girl. She also played Freya in the podcast series The Confessions of Dorian Gray. Between 2014 and 2015, Pearce appeared in A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith and following this, portrayed Captain De'Ath in A Stab in the Dark at the same venue.

In 2016, Pearce appeared as Daisy in Young Hyacinth, a one-off special set prior to the events of the 1990s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. She also appeared as Gertie Coomer in the play Husbands and Sons which toured the Royal National Theatre and Royal Exchange, Manchester. In 2017, Pearce appeared as Emily Stone in the BBC drama Three Girls, before making her film debut appearing in My Cousin Rachel, as well as appearing in the films The Last Photograph and England is Mine respectively, as well as starring in the stage plays Low Level Panic and The Last Ballad of Lillian Bilocca. In 2018, she portrayed Charlene in an episode of the ITV drama Vera and appeared as Sonia in the comedy series Girlfriends. She also appeared in the play Roundabout Season with Paines Plough and provided the voice of Fabia in the audio drama Cicero.

In 2019, Pearce joined the cast of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as Lolly, a school friend of Kate Connor's (Faye Brookes). Her character becomes involved in the planning of Kate's wedding to Rana Habeeb (Bhavna Limbachia) and damages the latter's wedding dress, which results in Rana being inside in a fictional factory at the time of the roof collapse, ultimately causing her death. She also provided the voice of Alice Pritchard in the audio drama The War Master. That same year, Pearce appeared as Cardinal Pandulph in King John at Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. The following year, she appeared in The Whip as Horatia Poskitt at the same venue. In 2022, she appeared in the BBC drama series Rules of the Game as Carys Jenkins. In 2023, Pearce joined the cast of the revival series of the BBC school drama Waterloo Road as Amy Spratt, an early career teacher in English and drama. She appeared until the fifteenth series when her character decides to resign. Following her exit from the show, Pearce began playing Puck A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Barbican Theatre.