Kate Burton is an acclaimed screen and theatre actress who is probably best known for Grey's Anatomy, but here's a guide to her other roles.

Here's a guide to the career of Grey's Anatomy actress Kate Burton. It seems a life in the arts was always on the cards for Kate Burton, as she is the daughter of producer Sybil Williams and screen icon Richard Burton. She made her first appearance in the latter's 1969 historical drama Anne Of The Thousand Days, but it wasn't until the early 1980s that she started to move towards an acting career. One of her earliest movie roles came with John Carpenter's martial arts action-adventure Big Trouble In Little China, which bombed on release in 1986 but is considered a classic now.

Much of Kate Burton's early work came with small roles on TV shows and movies, including crime series Spencer: For Hire and short-lived sitcoms like Brooklyn Bridge and Home Fires. She's also had various stints on Law And Order and its offshoots like Criminal Intent. Throughout the 1990s she also appeared in movies projects like 1996's August - starring and directed by Anthony Hopkins - Ang Lee's The Ice Storm and TV movie thriller Mistrialwith Bill Pullman.

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Outside of movies and TV, Kate Burton is a prolific stage actress and has won acclaim for her performances in productions of The Elephant Man and The Constant Wife. After appearances in erotic thriller Unfaithfulin 2002 and a lead role in The Diary Of Ellen Rimbauer - a prequel to Stephen King's Rose Red - she landed the key role of Ellis Grey in Grey's Anatomy. This medical drama debuted in 2005 and is still running, and Burton was nominated for her role as the Alzheimer's stricken mother of protagonist Meredith Grey.

While Kate Burton has regularly appeared in movies since Grey's Anatomy such as Max PayneorRemember Me, most of her career has focused on television in the last decade, where she's popped up on shows as varied as Grimmand The Good Wife. She played a major supporting role on Scandal, another Shonda Rhimes created hit. She played Vice President Sally Langston, who got some very juicy plotlines on the series and the performance earned Burton another Emmy nod.

In 2015 Kate Burton played a villain role in Martyrs, a remake of the controversial French original. This English language remake toned down the harsher elements of the original and by all accounts, this made for a weaker movie. Burton is still very active on television, having recently made guest appearances on 13 Reasons Whyand NCIS: New Orleans.

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