Katherine Wallace Biography

Katherine Wallace (born 25 April 1990) is an award winning Australian actress. She is known for her high-profile work in film, television and theatre addressing human rights and social justice.

Early life

Katherine Wallace was born on 25 April 1990 in the Sydney suburb of Mona Vale. As a child, she would put on shows on the dining room table, making her younger brother sit underneath, while she performed with multiple props and costumes. She then began taking drama classes at the age of six and made her stage debut in Roald Dahl's The Twits.

At the age of 11, she became a strict vegetarian and a lifelong advocate for animal rights.

She attended primary school in Sydney at Mona Vale Primary School. For her secondary education, she attended Manly Selective Campus at Northern Beaches Secondary College, a selective government high school for which admission is based entirely on academic excellence through the Selective High Schools Test. She graduated in 2007 and was named on the state's HSC Distinguished Achievers List for Drama.

Katherine began her professional training while still in high school, through classes at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, The Australian Film and Television Academy, Impro Australia and workshops in the Stella Adler technique.

Career

Katherine appeared in numerous theatre and film productions in Australia, before moving to the United States in 2010, including iconic Australian plays The Golden Age by Louis Nowra, Bombshells by Joanna Murray-Smith, Blackrock by Nick Enright, A Man With Five Children by Nick Enright, and the internationally renowned Short + Sweet Festival at Sydney's premier stages in the Seymour Centre. She also performed across Sydney with the Impro Australia troupe Scared Scriptless at the Enmore Theatre, the New Theatre, the Zenith Theatre, the Roxbury Hotel, and the Harold Park Hotel.

She appeared in her first leading film role opposite AFI Award winning actress Annie Byron (Fran, Wolf Creek 2, Muriel's Wedding) in Glory, which was funded by Screen Australia, the Australian Film Commission, and Metro Screen. She began working consistently on screen, appearing in a national commercial for the iconic Australian brand Arnotts, in Marvel's X-Men Origins: Wolverine alongside Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber, in the role of Grace Carmody on Australia's second-longest running drama series Home and Away, and in the critical role of Celine in the Arkitype Presents film Late Tuesday. She also appeared in the art installation series "Cockatoos Head: Frenzy" by award-winning photographer and video artist Rafaela Pandolfini.

In 2010, she successfully auditioned for the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and moved to New York to train full-time in the Conservatory program. She was recognized as an internationally emerging artist of exceptional talent and awarded an arts grant by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust. In 2012, she traveled to Zambia during the summer and volunteered with children in UNHCR's Meheba Refugee Settlement. In 2013, she appeared in the Bold Talent Aiding Charities Fashion Show in the Fashion District of Chelsea, which raised over $10,000 for the organization K.I.D.S. and garnered coverage from the Fox News Network. She then graduated from the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in 2013 and relocated to Los Angeles, where she immediately signed with an agent.

Katherine has sustained a successful international career in work addressing human rights and social justice, in collaboration with notable celebrities and high profile artists. She performed alongside Demi Lovato and Cher Lloyd in the anti-bullying performance of Really Don't Care at the Teen Choice Awards 2014; in Eve Ensler's One Billion Rising with the performance troupe Levitere in 2015 and 2016, alongside award-winning actress Mercy Malick, speakers Frances Fisher, Sufe Bradshaw, Gethin Anthony, Don Most, G. Hannelius, and Akil I LuQman, and the international flash mob dance choreographed by Debbie Allen; in the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Shakespeare Benefit in 2011 and 2012; in the world premiere of the ethnodrama Call This Number, which earned critical acclaim in The Los Angeles Times, OC Weekly and the OC Register; and in the feminist play Vinegar Tom, directed by award-winning director Kathy Gail MacGowan.

In 2015, she appeared on Hellevator from Blumhouse Productions, produced by Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Jason Blum (Whiplash, The Normal Heart, Insidious). She also co-wrote, co-produced and starred in the lead role of the original comedy series Sessions With My Parents.

In 2016, Katherine will appear in the music video One In A Million, a PSA to raise awareness about domestic violence and abuse. The music video is directed by Emmy Award winner Suzanne Luna (The Ellen Show) and produced by Emmy Award nominee Johanna Stein (Wander Over Yonder). The original song is co-written by Grammy Award winner Danny Weinkauf (They Might Be Giants) and Emmy Award winner Suzanne Luna. She will also appear in the feature films Gehenna with Doug Jones (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Adaptation), False Memory Syndrome opposite Jordan Hinson (ABC's Kevin From Work), and in the new comedy series Swedish Dicks alongside Anthony LaPaglia (Empire Records, Without A Trace, Frasier) and Peter Stormare (Fargo, Prison Break, The Big Lebowski).

Katherine is an Outreach Ambassador for the Stella Adler Studio in the theatre program for adolescents in recovery at Phoenix House Academy.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Glory	Young Glory	Short Film
2007	The Masque of the Red Death	Party Guest	Short Film
2008	Yes, Please	Ambrosia	Short Film
2009	Round and Round	Girl 2	Short Film
2009	Late Tuesday	Celine	Short Film
2009	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	Mutant
2010	Cockatoos Headdress: Frenzy	Dancer	Short Film
2013	Bold Talent Aiding Charities Fashion Show	Model	TV Movie
2013	Evil Bum	The Femme Fatale	Short Film
2014	Chimera	The Goth Customer	Short Film
2015	How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse	Zombie
2015	True Comedian	Sassy Best Friend
2016	My Valentine 2	Aerialist	Music Video
2016	Gehenna: Where Death Lives	Claire
2016	False Memory Syndrome	Agnes

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Don't Blame The Koalas	Precocious Girl	Episode: "Fate Steps In"
2003	Snobs	Surfer	Episode: #1.2
2005	Blue Water High	Surfer	2 episodes
2010	Home and Away	Grace Carmody	3 episodes
2014	Teen Choice Awards 2014	Dancer	TV Special
2015	How To Make A Reality Star	The Librarian	Episode: "The Casting Call"
2015	Hellevator	Creepy Girl / Shadow Girl	Episode: "Pilot"
2015	Sessions With My Parents	Nicki	10 episodes
2016	Swedish Dicks	Sheila	Episode: #1.9