Kate Walsh

She married movie executive Alex Young on 1st September, 2007, in the Ojai Presbyterian Church in Ojai, north of Los Angeles. They filed for divorce separately in December 2008, which was finalized on February 5, 2010.

Since 2007, she has been the spokesperson for the Narcolepsy Network and has been working to promote awareness about the disease through infomercials and DVDs. In 2008, she participated in a campaign video for US Presidential candidate Barack Obama, and also campaigned for him in four states viz. Arizona, Texas, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.

In 2008, she was elected to serve on the board of the Screen Actors’ Guild for a three-year term. She is also involved with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). She supports pet adoption and frequently campaigns for the cause. She is also involved with the advocacy group ‘Oceana’ for sea turtle protection advocacy. In the 2016 US Presidential elections, she campaigned for candidate Hillary Clinton multiple times in the states of California, Arizona, and Virginia.

She was born in San Jose, California, USA. Her father, Joseph P. Walsh, is Irish and originally from Navan, County Meath, Ireland. Her mother, Angela (nee’ Bochetto), is of Italian descent.

She has four older siblings, two sisters and two brothers. Her older brothers, Sean and Joe, are film-makers.

Her home had a Catholic Christian environment and she was raised in Tucson, Arizona, USA. She attended Catalina Magnet High School for three years.

She then went to the Rincon High School and graduated from there. She went on to study acting from the University of Arizona at Tucson.

She began her career as a runway model in Japan where she was teaching English. Later she came back to the US and joined the Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago where she began her formal acting career.

She left Chicago and moved to New York to join the comedy troupe, ‘Burn Manhattan’ and also supported herself by working as a part-time waitress. She also performed on National Public Radio in the production of the radio play ‘Born Guilty’.

She played the character ‘Cathy Buxton’ in the episode titled ‘Stakeout’ of the American police procedural drama series ‘Homicide: Life on the street’. In the episode ‘Navy Blues’ of the police & legal procedural drama ‘Law & Order’, she played the character of Navy Lieutenant Kirstin Blair.

Her first major television appearance was in 1997 on the ‘Drew Carey Show’ where she played the character Nicki Fifer, who was the love interest of Drew Carey. For this role she wore a fatsuit in some of the episodes as Nicki Fifer was portrayed as a woman who had lost weight after being obese but had started gaining it again.

She also played the character of Paula ‘Paulie’ Goddard in the legal drama television series ‘Swift Justice’ in a single episode. She played the character Heidi in the comedy drama television series ‘Cupid’ in a single episode.

She played the character Terry in the police drama series ‘Turks’. In the short-lived sitcom, ‘The Mike O’Malley Show’, she played the character Marcia.

She played the character Stace in the sitcom ‘Cursed’. She played the character Jenny in the sitcom ‘The Norm Show’ for five episodes. She played the character of Agent Eve Hiliard in the drama series ‘The Fugitive’ for three episodes.