Kate Burton
Department: Acting
Biography
Kate Burton is a Swiss-born Welsh-American stage and screen actress. She is best known for her TV roles as Vice President Sally Langston on ABC's Scandal, Vera Quinn on the Audience Network's series Full Circle, and Dr. Ellis Grey on ABC's Grey's Anatomy. She holds an BA in Russian Studies and European History from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, New Haven, Connecticut.
Known For
Unfaithful
2002
Sandra Day O'Connor: The First
2021
Swimfan
2002
Big Trouble in Little China
1986
Stay
2005
Max Payne
2008
Our Son
2023
Celebrity
1998
127 Hours
2010
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
2003
The Opportunists
2000
The Ice Storm
1997
What Just Happened
2008
Puncture
2011
Liberal Arts
2012
2 Days in New York
2012
Spooner
2009
Obsessed
2002
Dumb Money
2023
August
1996
Consent
2010
The Anne Frank Gift Shop
2023
Washingtonienne
2009
Heaven, I Suppose
2023
Hidden Treasure of the Mississippi
2008
Caris' Peace
2011
Barefoot
2014
Breaking
2022
Love Matters
1993
Violent Ends
2025
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
guts
2024
Three Sisters
2003
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1987
Bleeding Heart
2015
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
Mistrial
1996
Alice in Wonderland
1983
Martyrs
2015
Oscar Wilde About America
2025
Don't Look Back
2014
Amok
2015
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center
2013
The Surrender
2025
Quid Pro Quo
2008
Remember Me
2010
At First Light
2018
Noël Coward's Present Laughter
2017
Life with Mikey
1993
Ellen Foster
1997
Sherrybaby
2006
Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
2005
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019
The First Wives Club
1996
Identity Theft
2015
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988
The Codebreaker
2021
Mariachi Gringo
2012
Looking for Richard
1996
Death on the Brandywine
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Notes For My Daughter
1995
Medium
2005
Law & Order
1990
Grey's Anatomy
2005
Numb3rs
2005
Spenser: For Hire
1985
Justice
2006
Judging Amy
1999
American Experience
1988
Prodigal Son
2019
The Practice
1997
Rescue Me
2004
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Eleventh Hour
2008
Charmed
2018
Supergirl
2015
The Mosquito Coast
2021
Monty
1994
Extant
2014
Brooklyn Bridge
1991
Home Fires
1992
The Deep End
2010
Revolution
2012
Inventing Anna
2022
Full Circle
2013
The Closer
2005
The West Wing
1999
Law & Order
1990
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Good Wife
2009
Ellis Island
1984
Empire Falls
2005
This Is Us
2016
Bosch: Legacy
2022
Scandal
2012
Grimm
2011
Law & Order
1990
The Gifted
2017
Supergirl
2015
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
The Dropout
2022
The Vote
2020
Veep
2012
Elementary
2012
Modern Family
2009
So Help Me Todd
2022
Perfect Harmony
2019
13 Reasons Why
2017
FBI
2018
100 Centre Street
2001
Great Performances
1971
Key & Peele
2012
BULLDOZER
2025
Madam Secretary
2014
Working Shakespeare
2003
Evergreen
1985
The Beast in Me
2025
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Tony Awards
1956