Kitty Aldridge

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title: "Kitty Aldridge" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1962-births", "living-people", "alumni-of-the-drama-centre-london", "british-film-actresses", "british-television-actresses", "british-expatriates-in-bahrain", "20th-century-british-actresses", "20th-century-british-novelists"] description: "British actress and writer (born 1962)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Aldridge" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary British actress and writer (born 1962) ::

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name	Kitty Aldridge
birth_place	Bahrain
birth_date
occupation	Novelist, actress
nationality	British
spouse
children	2
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| name = Kitty Aldridge | birth_place = Bahrain | birth_date = | occupation = Novelist, actress | nationality = British | spouse = | children = 2

Kitty Aldridge (born 9 May 1962) is a British actress and writer.

Life and career

Aldridge was born in Bahrain. After training as an actress at the Drama Centre London, Aldridge went on to work in film, theatre and television as an actress for 15 years. In her thirties she began to write fiction. Her first novel, Pop, published in 2001, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002 and shortlisted for the Pendleton May First Novel Award 2002. Her second novel, Cryers Hill, was published in March 2007.

Aldridge's short story, Arrivederci Les, won the Bridport Short Story Prize 2011.

Her third novel, A Trick I Learned from Dead Men, was published in 2012. It was longlisted for the 2013 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and The Guardian newspaper's Not The Booker Prize 2012.

Aldridge’s new novel, The Wisdom of Bones, was published in May 2019.

Aldridge married Mark Knopfler, the former guitarist and frontman of Dire Straits, on Valentine's Day 1997 in Barbados. They have two daughters.

Filmography

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	**	New Lucy
1986	Gathering Stones	Anna	Short
1987	Maurice	Kitty Hall
1987	**	Katherine Hastings
1988	American Roulette	Kate Webber
1988	Tyger Tyger Burning Bright	Tasmin
1989	Slipstream	Belitski
1998	Divorcing Jack	Agnes Brinn
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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Porterhouse Blue	Serena	"1.4"
1988	**	Kitty	"The Wedding"
1989	**	DI Rosy Campbell	Main role (series 1)
1990	**	Sabrina	TV film
1990	**	Barbara Daniels	TV film
1992	Downtown Lagos	Alice Hughes	TV miniseries
1993	Heartbeat	Sarah Collins	"Baby Blues"
1993	To Play the King	Sarah Harding	TV miniseries
1996	Cadfael	Judith Perle	"The Rose Rent"
1997	**	Anne Cattrell	TV miniseries
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Bibliography

• Pop, Cape (Vintage); (2001)
• Cryers Hill, Cape (Vintage); (1 March 2007)
• Arrivederci Les; (2011)
• A Trick I Learned from Dead Men, Cape (Vintage); (5 July 2012)
• The Wisdom of Bones, Corsair (Little, Brown); (May 2, 2019)

Awards

• Bridport Short Story Prize 2011

References

References

1. (February 2022)
2. (30 June 2012). "Kitty Aldridge: 'The deceased are like gods in a way'".
3. [http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099428326/kitty-aldridge/pop/ Vintage Books, UK]
4. [http://www.aitkenalexander.co.uk/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=user&id=426%3Akittyaldridge&Itemid=151 Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd – Literary Agency London, UK]
5. [http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=82161 Orange Prize for Fiction announces 2002 longlist, PR Newswire UK]
6. [http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099506181/kitty-aldridge/cryers-hill/ Vintage Books, UK]
7. "The Bridport Prize".
8. "Random House Group, UK".
9. "Longlist". Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.
10. (3 August 2012). "Not the Booker prize 2012: vote for the shortlist". The Guardian.
11. (5 February 2019). "The Wisdom of Bones". Corsair.
12. Wright, M. (1997) ''The Mirror'', London, England. Available from: {{Gale. A61105962 MARK TIES THE KNOT-FLER AGAIN; TV Kitty is wife No 3 in paradise wedding.(Features)] Retrieved on 15 May 2007.
13. [http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/647_jewish_showbiz_news.htm Jewish Showbiz News]

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