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.
Filmography The Surrender
2025
Character TBA
Details Oscar Wilde About America
2025
Character TBA
Details Heaven, I Suppose
2023
Cheryl
Details The Anne Frank Gift Shop
2023
Ilse
Details Breaking
2022
Tami Stackhouse
Details Sandra Day O'Connor: The First
2021
Narrator (voice)
Details The Codebreaker
2021
Narrator (voice)
Details Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019
Ellen Idelson
Details Noël Coward's Present Laughter
2017
Liz Essendine
Details Don't Look Back
2014
Dr. Jeanette Barnes
Details Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center
2013
Mrs. Mullin
Details 2 Days in New York
2012
Bella
Details Puncture
2011
Senator O'Reilly
Details What Just Happened
2008
Doctor Randall
Details Hidden Treasure of the Mississippi
2008
Aunt Birdy
Details Sherrybaby
2006
Marcia Swanson
Details Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
2005
Narrator (voice)
Details The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
2003
Connie Posey
Details The Opportunists
2000
Rest Home Sister
Details Ellen Foster
1998
Abigail Montford
Details Celebrity
1998
Robin's Friend Cheryl
Details The Ice Storm
1997
Dorothy Franklin
Details Mistrial
1996
Katherine Donohue
Details The First Wives Club
1996
Woman in Bed
Details Life with Mikey
1993
Mrs. Burns
Details Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
Self
Details In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988
Self
Details Uncle Tom's Cabin
1987
Ophelia
Details Big Trouble in Little China
1986
Margo
Details Alice in Wonderland
1983
Alice
Details Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
Serving Maid (uncredited)
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