
Acting
Kate Duchêne (born Catherine Anne Purves Duchêne, 5 July 1959) is an English actress best known for her role as the teacher Miss Hardbroom in the adaptation of the children's books The Worst Witch.
Duchêne started to act at the age of 14. She studied French and Spanish at Trinity College, Cambridge in the 1980s, where she became a member of the Footlights theatre group, writing and performing her own material. She also acted with the Cambridge Mummers, appearing in such plays as Measure For Measure (as Isabella) in Cambridge and the Edinburgh Fringe. In the 1980s she joined the Traverse Theat…

National Theatre at Home: The Land of the Living
as Dora

National Theatre Live: Henry V
as Exeter / Constable of France

Roxane
as Wendy

National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
as Juliana

National Theatre Live: Everyman
as God / Good Deeds

All Good Children
as Lynne

Henry VIII - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
as Queen Katherine

An Education
as Latin Teacher

Monsieur N.
as Madame Balcombe

The Tall Guy
as Old Girlfriend