Catherine Walker (actor)

Catherine Walker (born 1975 in Dublin) is an Irish actress, notable for British and Irish television appearances including "The Clinic" (2003–2009), "Northanger Abbey" and "Waking the Dead" (2007), "Bitter Sweet" (2008), "Critical" (2015) and "A Dark Song" (2016). More recently, she appeared as Madame Scarron/Madame de Maintenon in series 2 and 3 of the TV series "Versailles". She also appeared as Alice Brooks in Series 5 of the BBC drama Shetland. In 2020, she appeared for 3 episodes in the Netflix series "Cursed" as the recurring character, Lenore, the mother to Nimue from the legends of King Arthur.
She won the "Irish Times" Irish Theatre Award for Best Actress twice, for "What Happened Bridgie Cleary" by Tom MacIntyre at the Peacock Theatre and for "The Talk of the Town" at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin. "The Talk of the Town" was written by Irish novelist Emma Donoghue, whose best-selling novel "Room" was subsequently filmed by Lenny Abrahamson.