A hard-looking brunette with high cheek bones, Leicester-born actress Kate O'Mara was the daughter of actress Hazel Bainbridge and John Carroll and prodded into performing as a child. Educated at the Aida Foster School, she began an early career as a speech therapist at a Sussex Girls' School,but her attraction to acting got the best of her and she switched gears, making her debut in a stage production of The Merchant of Venice in 1963 at the age of 24. She continued to appear in classical w ...[Read Story]