George Katt Bio - Biography

Name George Katt
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Naionality American
Date of Birth 27-Feb-1975
Place of Birth America
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Born and raised in New York City, George Katt is quickly making his mark as a versatile actor in film, television, and theatre working steadily in all fields and on both coasts. George has performed in several productions under the direction of the late, great Tony Randall at the Juilliard School as one of the youngest members of the National Actor's Theatre. He was also a beloved student of the late William Hickey at H.B Studios. Katt attended Marymount Manhattan College on as the winner of the Competitive Merit Scholarship in Acting.

Partial Theatre credits include: Val in Tennessee William's "Orpheus Descending" at La Mama, Treplev in Chekhov's "The Seagull" at Pulse Ensemble, Polo Pope in "Hatful of Rain" at the Mazer Theater, Eddie in "Hurlyburly" at the Coronet Theatre, John Bender in "The Breakfast Club 2006", as well as "Great Kills" a play he wrote and performed at the Coronet Theatre.

Film credits include: Miramax's "The Pallbearer", "Locomotive" with Carmine Giovinazzo (CSI NY), "Hitman's Run" with Eric Roberts, "The Diplomat" and is also starring in the films "Crimes Against Charlie", "A Killing on the Riviera", the upcoming comedy "Sweetzer" with Jorge Garcia (ABC's Lost), and just won the Best Breakthrough Actor 2007 award at the New York International Independent Film Festival for his starring role of Zeus in the forthcoming feature film "Valley of Angels" w/Danny Trejo. The film also won the Grand Jury Award for Best Feature and is also the Grand Prize Winner of the WriteMovies.com International Screenplay Contest. Katt also won 1st place in the Life Through Art Foundation monologue competition performing a piece from Kenneth Lonergan's "This is Our Youth".

Recently he received rave reviews for his work in the film "Crimes Against Charlie" (Grand Prize Winner Worldfest)and for his performance as Zeus in "Valley of Angels":

On Television, George played the hilarious recurring role of Zack on Showtime's "Rude Awakening" with Sherilyn Fenn and Lynn Redgrave and has guest starred in CBS "The Agency" with Gil Bellows, CBS' "Brooklyn South", WB's "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" with Melissa Joan Hart, WB's "Popular", Comedy Central's "Mind of Mencia" with Kevin Farley, ABC's "All My Children" and NBC's "Passions".

In addition to acting, Katt also plays guitar and sings in his rock band "Vent.

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