Meisle, Kathryn

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Meisle, Kathryn

PERSONAL

Married Marcus Giamatti (an actor and musician; divorced).

Addresses:

Agent—Gersh Agency, 232 North Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Manager—James Suskin, James Suskin Management, 253 West 72nd St., Suite 1014, New York, NY 10023.

Career:

Actress.

Awards, Honors:

Drama Desk Award nomination, outstanding featured actress in a play, 1993, for As You Like It; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best actress in a featured role, and Joe A. Callaway Award, best performance in a classic drama, Actors' Equity Association, both 2003, for Tartuffe.

CREDITS

Stage Appearances:

Salome, Dandy Dick, Roundabout Theatre Company, Union Square Theatre, New York City, 1988.

Desdemona, Othello, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1991.

As You Like It, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1993.

Frances Parnell, Racing Demon, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1995.

Hortensia, The Rehearsal, Roundabout Theatre Company, Criterion Center Stage Right Theatre, New York City, 1996-97.

Grace Harkaway, London Assurance, Roundabout Theatre Company, Criterion Center Stage Right Theatre, 1997.

Elvira, Blithe Spirit, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Community Theatre, Morristown, NJ, 1997.

Mabel, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, New York Theatre Workshop, Minetta Lane Theatre, New York City, 1998-99.

Helena, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1999.

Measure for Measure, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre, 1999.

Flinty McGee and Florence DeRoot, Old Money, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, New York City, 2000-2001.

Nathalie Derrien, What You Get and What You Expect (also known as Ce qui arrive et ce qu'on attend), New York Theatre Workshop, 2000.

The Game of Love and Chance, Theatre Ten Ten, New York City, 2000.

Olivia, Twelfth Night, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, 2002.

Elmira, Tartuffe, Roundabout Theatre Company, American Airlines Theatre, New York City, 2002-2003.

Nancy Robin, Living Out, Second Stage Theatre, New York City, 2003.

Marie-Louise Durham, The Constant Wife, Roundabout Theatre Company, American Airlines Theatre, 2005.

Deborah, A Touch of the Poet, Roundabout Theatre Company, Studio 54 Theatre, New York City, 2005-2006.

Appeared in A Month in the Country and Philadelphia, Here I Come, both Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN; School for Scandal, Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC; She Stoops to Conquer, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT; Twelfth Night, Arena Stage, Baltimore, MD; and Wonderful Tennessee, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ; also appeared in Misalliance.

Film Appearances:

Marcie Elliott, Basket Case 2, Shapiro/Glickenhaus Entertainment, 1990.

Susan, Chicken Delight, 1991.

Mrs. Carpenter, That Night (also known as One Hot Summer), Warner Bros., 1992.

Mary Wright, Rosewood, Warner Bros., 1997.

Cecilia Kelly, You've Got Mail, Warner Bros., 1998.

Mildred, Down (also known as The Elevator and The Shaft), First Floor Features, 2001.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Juliet Crawford, Loving, ABC, 1983.

Catherine Moody, "By Hooker, by Crook," Law & Order, NBC, 1990.

The Cosby Mysteries, NBC, 1994.

Mrs. Rockwell, "To Your Health," Oz, HBO, 1997.

Susan Young, "Under the Influence," Law & Order, NBC, 1998.

Helen, "Once for the Books," Cosby, CBS, 1999.

Gina Silver, "Disrobed," Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (also known as Law & Order: SVU and Special Victims Unit), NBC, 2000.

Mrs. Rockwell, "Even the Score," Oz, HBO, 2001.

Ms. Guhler (some sources cite Susan Schooler), "The Cook of the Money Pot," Judging Amy, CBS, 2002.

Katherine Manning, "Hawks and Handsaws," Without a Trace (also known as W.A.T.), CBS, 2004.

Saundra Castle, "The Vote," The Guardian, CBS, 2004.

Janet Welker, "My Dinner with Andy," NYPD Blue, ABC, 2004.

Janet Welker, "I Like Ike," NYPD Blue, ABC, 2004.

Mrs. Seaborne, "Shootout," CSI: Miami, CBS, 2005.

Alice Webb, "Three Parties," Brothers & Sisters, ABC, 2007.

Television Appearances; Other:

Cindy London, One Life to Live (series), 1988.

The Cosby Mysteries (movie; also known as Guy Hanks I), NBC, 1994.

Dolly Madison, Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (miniseries), CBS, 2000.

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