Kate McCartney
Australian comedian, writer, & actor
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Kate McCartney (born 1979 or 1980) is an Australian comedian, writer, actor and illustrator. She is a frequent collaborator with Kate McLennan, which has led to their being dubbed the Kates.
The Katering Show
Get Krack!n
Deadloch
Kate McCartney | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1979 or 1980 (age 46–47) Perth, Western Australia |
| Notable work | The Katering Show Get Krack!n Deadloch |
| Partner(s) | Sally Rugg (2022–present; engaged) |
| Children | 1 |
| Comedy career | |
| Medium | Stand-up comedian, writer, actor, illustrator |
| Genres | observational comedy, character comedy, parody and satire |
Early life
Kate McCartney was born in 1979 or 1980[1] in Perth, Western Australia, and moved to Melbourne with her family at the age of 10,[2] where she grew up in Camberwell.[1]
Career
McCartney worked as a comedian and also worked in animation. Her television writing credits have included Big Bite, Hamish & Andy, Adam Hills Tonight, and Spicks and Specks.[3]
She met Kate McLennan in 2011 after McLennan voiced a character in an animation for her.[4] Due to the number of subsequent collaborations with McLennan, the pair have been dubbed "the Kates" in the media.[5][6]
McCartney co-created the web series Bleak with McLennan in 2010, about being a single 30-something, which won the Kit Denton Disfellowship for Courage and Excellence in Performance Writing at the 2011 AWGIE Awards, worth A$30,000.[7]
With McLennan, she created a cooking-based web series called The Katering Show which screened initially on their YouTube channel in 2014. A second season of The Katering Show was screened on the ABC TV and then on ABC iview in 2016.[8][9]
In 2017, McCartney collaborated with McLennan for ABC Television to create the comedy Get Krack!n, in which they played breakfast show television presenters.[10]
In 2021, they created Slushy, a workplace comedy set in the Australian Antarctic research base, that was available as a podcast on Audible.[11]
McCartney and McLennan wrote the 2023 Amazon Prime Video series Deadloch starring Kate Box,[12] which garnered positive reviews,[13] and won McCartney a Best Television Script Writing Award and Box a Best Actress Award, at the AACTA Awards in February 2024.[14][15] The series was a worldwide hit, reaching the top 10 on Prime in over 165 countries, including the UK and the US. The second series, set in the Top End,[16] premiered on Amazon on 20 March 2026.[17]
Personal life
McCartney had a daughter, Millie, in early 2015.[2]
In 2022, she became engaged to Sally Rugg.[18] As of May 2023 McCartney was living in the Melbourne suburb of Preston.[1]