Kate McCartney is an Australian comedian, writer, actor and illustrator. She is a frequent collaborator with

Kate McLennan Kate McLennan (born ) is an Australian comedian, writer and actor. McLennan has performed in Australia and internationally, including at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She is known in Australia for her work on television and web series such as ...

, which has led to their being dubbed the Kates.

Early and personal life

She was born in

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, moved to

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but grew up in

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. She later moved to the

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suburb Preston and had a daughter, Millie, in early 2015. In 2022, she became engaged to

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Career

McCartney worked as a comedian and also worked in animation. Her television writing credits have included ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Spicks and Specks''. She met

in 2011 after McLennan voiced a character in an animation for her. Due to the number of subsequent collaborations with McLennan, the pair have been dubbed the Kates in the media. 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

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, worth . With McLennan, she created a cooking-based web series called '' The Katering Show'' which screened initially on their

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channel in 2014. A second season of ''The Katering Show'' was screened on the ABC TV and then on

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in 2016. In 2017, McCartney collaborated with McLennan for

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to create the comedy ''

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'', in which they played breakfast show television presenters. In 2021, they created ''Slushy'', a workplace comedy set in the Australian Antarctic research base, that was available as a podcast on

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. McCartney and McLennan wrote the 2023

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series ''

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'' starring

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, which garnered positive reviews, and won McCartney a Best Television Script Writing Award and Box a Best Actress Award, at the

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in February 2024.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McLennan, Kate Date of birth unknown Living people Australian LGBTQ broadcasters Australian women comedians Australian stand-up comedians Australian television personalities Australian women television personalities Australian television writers Australian actresses Australian bisexual entertainers Australian bisexual women Australian bisexual writers 21st-century Australian actresses 21st-century Australian comedians 21st-century Australian LGBTQ people Comedians from Perth, Western Australia Comedians from Melbourne