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Georgina McKee (born 14 April 1964) is an English actress. She won the 1997 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Our Friends in the North (1996), and earned subsequent nominations for The Lost Prince (2003) and The Street (2007). She also starred on television in The Forsyte Saga (2002) and as Caterina Sforza in The Borgias (2011). Her film appearances include Notting Hill (1999), Phantom Thread (2017), and My Policeman (2022). On the stage, she has been nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for King Lear in 2011, Dear England in 2024, and The Years in 2025.
From the age of 15, McKee spent three summers in London with the National Youth Theatre. After completing her A-Levels at East Durham College, she decided, with her parents' blessing, to apply to drama schools rather than art colleges. However, she was rejected by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and the Central School of Speech and Drama.
McKee's theatre credits include Harold Pinter's The Lover and The Collection at the Comedy Theatre in London. In 2008, she appeared in the BBC drama Fiona's Story and a West End revival of Chekhov's Ivanov. In 2010, she appeared as Goneril in the Donmar Warehouse revival of King Lear, directed by Michael Grandage and starring Derek Jacobi. She received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.
She played the mother of a deaf teenager in BBC TV's thriller The Silence opposite Genevieve Barr. In 2018, she appeared in the BBC/Netflix drama series Bodyguard as Commander Anne Sampson.
In 2002, McKee received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland.
In 2025, McKee received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (D.Litt) from Durham University at the Summer Congregation.
| 1989 | Wilt | Party Guest | |
| 2022 | My Policeman | Older Marion Taylor | |
| A Grand Romantic Gesture | Ava | Lead role | |
| 2023 | Typist Artist Pirate King | Dorothy | |
| The End We Start From | F |
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| Episode: "Cowboys" | |||
| 1986 | Unnatural Causes | Nancy | Episode: "Home Cooking" |
| Episode: "Service of All the Dead" | |||
| Rockliffe's Babies | Barmaid | Episode: "A Few Bad Days" | |
| The Ritz | Janice | Episode: "Tuesday" | |
| Floodtide | Medical Student | Episode: "Four: The Trail" | |
| 12 episodes | |||
| 1989 | The Paradise Club | Bank Teller | Episode: "Short Story" |
| Episode: "Death, Disaster 'n Damien" | |||
| Medics | Alex | Episode: "Helen Palmer" | |
| 1990, 1997 | Screen Two | Lynn/Caroline | 2 episodes |
| Episode: "Guess Who's Coming To Pinner" | |||
| Jackie | 1 episode | ||
| 6 episodes | |||
| 1994 | In Suspicious Circumstances | Evelyn Foster | 2 episodes |
| Casualty | Ginnie Davies | Episode: "The Facts of Life" | |
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| Frontiers | Sarah Lightfoot | Episode: "Casual Bank Robbers" | |
| Episode: "The Chest" | |||
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| Helen | |||
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| Episode: "Old School Ties" | |||
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| Episode: "Hidden Depths" | |||
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