Kathleen Gati, a two-time Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Actress in 2020 and 2016, is a highly acclaimed actress with an impressive array of awards and nominations to her name. She is perhaps best known for her roles as a stewardess on AMC's Fear The Walking Dead: Flight 462, Raisa on CW's Arrow, Zora on CBS's S.W.A.T., and Dr. Liesl Obrecht on ABC's General Hospital, where she has appeared for eleven seasons and over 522 episodes.
Gati has also made a significant impact in the world of audiobooks, earning nine Audiofile Earphones Awards for her narration of over 80 titles. Her linguistic skills are equally impressive, with fluency in Hungarian, Russian, French, Spanish, English, German, and Hebrew. She is also adept at adopting various accents, including those from Eastern Europe, Germany, France, and the UK.
Born and raised in Canada to Hungarian immigrants, Gati was surrounded by the arts from a young age. Her parents, a symphony conductor and an opera singer, instilled in her a love of performance, and she began acting at the tender age of three. By the time she was eight, she had written, directed, and starred in her own play.
After high school, Gati moved to New York to pursue her dreams, studying and performing in numerous plays both on and Off Broadway. She also worked extensively in television and film, earning her first major award for her role in the Hungarian feature film Goldberg variácók in 1992.
Gati's subsequent six-year stay in Hungary was marked by numerous film and television credits, including the critically acclaimed Sose halunk meg, which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards' Best Foreign Film category. Her performance in Retrace earned her the Best Actress award at the Los Angeles Hungarian Film Festival in 2011, while her role in A Play on Words garnered a Best Actress nomination at the New York International Film Festival in 2015.
