Janet Dale
Timothy Dalton
Charles Dance
The Dance of Death
Ron Daniels
The Danton Affair
Nick Darke
Daughter of the Air
Shaun Davey
Alan David
Howard Davies
Rudi Davies
Daniel Day-Lewis
Days in the Trees
Days of the Commune
The Dead Monkey
Nick Dear
Deathwatch/The Maids
Thomas Dekker
Robert Delamere
A Delicate Balance
Frances de la Tour
Robert Demeger
Jeffery Dench
Judi Dench
The Desert Air
Desire Under the Elms
Destiny
The Devil is an Ass
The Devil's Disciple
The Devils
Ann Devlin
Es Devlin
Mark Dignam
Stephen Dillane
The Dillen
Lisa Dillon
Dingo
The Dispute
Divine Gossip
Joe Dixon
Doctor Faustus
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Dog in the Manger
Monica Dolan
A Doll's House
Don Carlos
Donmar Warehouse
Declan Donnellan
Gregory Doran
Simon Dormandy
Roy Dotrice
John Dougall
Wayne Dowdeswell
Downchild
Penny Downie
Kevin Doyle
A Dream of People
Dreamplay
Amanda Drew
Darrell D'Silva
Kate Duchêne
The Duchess of Malfi
Duck Song
William Dudley
The Dumb Waiter
Lindsay Duncan
Jeremy Dunn
Marguerite Duras
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Susan Dury
Dutch Uncle
The Dybbuk
Charles Dyer
Chris Dyer
Kate Duchêne has given memorable performances at the RSC as Queen Elizabeth in the Simon Russell Beale Richard III (Sam Mendes, TOP and Small-scale Tour, 1992, Swan 1993); Chorus in Murder in the Cathedral (Steven Pimlott, Swan, 1993, Pit, 1994); a highly-strung Jessica in The Merchant of Venice (David Thacker, RST, 1993, Barbican, 1994); Alithea in The Country Wife (Max Stafford-Clark, Swan, 1993, Pit, 1994); Amanda in The Relapse (Ian Judge, Swan, 1995, Pit, 1996); a deeply affecting Varya in The Cherry Orchard (Adrian Noble, Swan, 1995, Albery, 1996, Tour, 1997); Earth Spirit/Martha/Helen of Troy in Faust (Michael Bogdanov, Swan, 1995); and Marie in Woyzeck (Sean Holmes, TOP, 1996). She took over the role of Susanna from Teresa Banham during the West End run of The Herbal Bed (Michael Attenborough, Duchess Theatre, 1997).
It was through Sam Mendes that Kate Duchêne came to the RSC. She had previously played the Princess of France and Kaleria respectively in his Chichester productions of Love's Labour's Lost and Summerfolk (both Minerva Studio, 1989), and Carlotta and Amy respectively in his London productions of The Cherry Orchard (Aldwych, 1989) and Kean (Old Vic, 1990, also Toronto). At Chichester, 1989, she also played Leonide in Marivaux's The Triumph of Love (Jeremy Raison, Minerva Studio) and Maud/Betty in Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (David Leveaux). In 1991 she joined the National to play Elise in The Miser (Steven Pimlott, Olivier) and Dockdaisy in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Di Trevis, Olivier). She gained her early theatre experience at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, and the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, where she played Lucy in John Clifford's Lucy's Play (1986). As an undergraduate at Cambridge she was a member of the Footlights' (1982).
Since leaving the RSC she has played Clytemnestra in Euripides's Iphigenia at Aulis (Katie Mitchell, Abbey, Dublin, 2001); Simone in Naomi Wallace's The Inland Sea (Dominic Dromgoole, Oxford Stage Company, 2002); the mother in Lucy Prebble's The Sugar Syndrome (Marianne Elliott, Royal Court, 2003); and Clytemnestra in Iphigenia at Aulis (Mitchell, NT Lyttelton, 2004).
Education: Cambridge University
RSC: Joined 1992
Seasons: 1992/93 (Strat./Small-scale Tour/Lond.); 1993 (Strat.)-94 (Lond.); 1995 (Strat.)-96/97 (Lond./Tour); 1997 (Lond.)
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