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Nasty Natalie Hunter, played by Kate Collins (left). Is tbe outsider looking in on the love her mysterious stepson, Jeremy, (Jean LeClere), feels for that Irrepressible temptress, Erica Kane (Susan Lucd) on ABC's All My Children. Tbe highly rated daytime serial airs 1-2 p.m., Monday through Friday.Kate Collins Leads Double LifeTalented Kate Collin* leads a double life. During the day she appears on ABC In the key role of the bright, beautiful, devious and downright wicked Natalie Hunter in All My Children. the popular daytime drama, which airs Monday-Frlday 1-2 p.m.But when Broadway lights up at night. Kate Is in the theater performing in the hit comedy. Doubles. She plays the delightful xany Heather, the show’s only female character.I find It challenging.” said Kate. Working before the cameras in television and then before a live audience in the theater gives me perspective, balance.Seeking a challenge is afamily tradition. Kate's father is former Astronaut Michael Collins who piloted the spacecraft. Columbia, on the Apollo 11 mission for the first lunar landing in July. IMS.The oldest of three children, vivacious blond-haired Kate explained that she was brought up to view her father's historic participation in the space program as “simply dad's job. Speaking of her brother and sister, she added. We were raised to be individuals... Whatever we wanted to do was fine as long as we worked hard and set our standards high ... Mom and dad have always been supportive of my career. They’ve beenthere for the good times as well as the bad.”Kate decided as a senior in high school to make acting her career and she went on to graduate from Northwestern University where she majored in drama.She then appeared in a wide variety of regional theater productions with such companies as the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the North Shore Theatre in Beverly, Mass.. and the Cooperstown Theatre Festival and the Woodstock Playhouse in New York state and the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival at Drew University. Her off-Broadway credits include The Danube. BloodMoon” and Clarissa. She also made guest appearances on the daytime drama. One Life to Live. Guiding Light.” Search for Tomorrow and Another World.Born in Boston, Mass.. Kate grew up in Houston. Texas, and Washington. D.C.. where her father served as Director of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum and oversaw Its construction. Retired from the Air Force as a Major General, he serves as b consultant, writes and lectures.Asked If she. herself, learned to fly. Kate smiled and said, Dad never taught me. He never got his civilian pilot's license.
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Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Sat, Nov 09, 1985
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