Reid, (Daphne) Kate

Reid, (Daphne) Kate (1930–93), English-born Canadian actress, who trained for the theatre in New York and Toronto, making her first appearance as a student in 1948 and her London début in 1958 in Chetham-Strode's The Stepmother. In 1959 she joined the company at the Stratford (Ontario) Festival theatre, appearing there during several seasons, notably as Lady Macbeth and Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew in 1962; in 1965 she returned as Ranevskaya in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. She made her début in New York in 1962 as Martha in Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at matinées, also playing Caitlin Thomas opposite Alec Guinness in Sidney Michaels's Dylan (1964). Two years later she starred in Tennessee Williams's double bill Slapstick Tragedy, and in 1968 (London, 1969) she was in Arthur Miller's The Price. She was at Stratford, Conn. (see AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE THEATRE), in 1969 (Gertrude in Hamlet) and 1974 (the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet and Big Mama in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof). She moved with the last to New York, where earlier in the year she had been seen in Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City. At the Shaw Festival in Ontario in 1976 she played in Mrs Warren's Profession and The Apple Cart, and in 1979 she returned to New York as Henny in John Guare's Bosoms and Neglect, repeating the role at Stratford (Ontario) in 1980 as well as appearing in Twelfth Night and D. L. Coburn's The Gin Game. In 1984 in New York she was Linda Loman to Dustin Hoffman's Willy in a revival of Miller's Death of a Salesman.