Katie Amess

Katherine Louise Diana Amess (born on 19 July 1985 in Basildon, Essex, England) is an English actress and model. She is the host of British television commercials and has had several film and television roles.

Early life
Amess is the second of five children and the eldest of four daughters of The Right Honorable Sir David Anthony Andrew Amess, Member of Parliament (MP) for the Conservative Party, and wife Julia Arnold. She grew up in Basildon, Essex, until the age of 11 when she moved to nearby Southend-on-Sea, Essex.

She attended St Anne Line Primary School in Basildon before going to the Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School in Brentwood, Essex, and finally St Bernard's High School in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. She went on to study Drama at Queen Mary University of London and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, Greater London, Middlesex.

Biography
Amess competed in several British beauty pageants and won the title of Miss Essex 2008 for the Miss Earth 2008 contest. In the same year she also became a finalist for the Miss England competition.

She has appeared in a host of television commercials including for Nintendo, Premier Inn and News of the World. She appeared as Paris Hilton in two national commercials. She has appeared on various television shows in the UK including Funny Cuts on E4 and Dream Team.

In 2013, Amess signed on to play a lead in the musical parody Miserable Lesbians in New York and Edinburgh. The show was adapted from the Oscar-winning Les Misérables and attracted global attention due to the issues of homosexual marriage and sex equality it raised. Amess reprised her role of Courgette (aka Cosette) from an earlier 2013 short-film version in support of homosexual rights of Miserable Lesbians for the "Toscars" at the famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre which saw the film sweep the boards, winning 8 out of 10 awards presented by Eric Roberts. She publicly criticised her father's stance on same-sex marriage after producing that film.

She was cast as Lulu in William Friedkin's version of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party at The Geffen Playhouse alongside Tim Roth, Steven Berkoff, David O'Hara, Frances Barber and Nick Ullett. She went on to play Ulcie in the closing week of Rolin Jones' These Paper Bullets at the same theatre in 2015.

Amess played Brenda Dixon in Ray Cooney's Cash on Delivery, alongside Cooney himself in December 2015. The performance received positive reviews: "The ensemble [..] under Cooney's keen direction are all great [...] Katie Amess as Norman's innocent, confused fiancee Brenda. There is not a flaw, not a missed cue. No one stands above anyone else. Cooney as director has gleaned a perfect sense of timing from the entire cast". "The equally looks-blessed Meire, Arcilla, and Amess prove themselves all three expert comediennes [...] Amess's delightful but dim Brenda match[es] the male costars every step of the way".

In 2016, she appeared in the film Captain America: Civil War. In 2017, she played Kendall Nagel in Bull on CBS and Sandy Weeks in Criminal Minds Beyond Borders Season 2 also on CBS.

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Category:1985 births
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Category:People from Basildon
Category:English Roman Catholics
Category:People educated at Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School
Category:Alumni of Queen Mary University of London
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Category:Actresses from Essex
Category:English television actresses
Category:English female models
Category:21st-century English actresses