
Katherine Banks
Acting
Biography
Katherine Banks is an actor, teacher, and communications specialist. You can catch Katherine onscreen in NO SUDDEN MOVE or in the Netflix drama MINDHUNTER. Katherine spent ten years in Chicago where she appeared in the Jeff Award winning Men Should Weep with Griffin Theatre and in Buzz 22 Chicago’s sold-out production of She Kills Monsters at the Steppenwolf Garage. Other Chicago theatre credits include The Real Thing (Illinois Theatre Center), Leaving Iowa (Fox Valley Repertory), and A Christmas Carol (Provision Theater). She is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan and the School at Steppenwolf.
Known For

An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51, no occupation is more stressful or dangerous, yet so rewarding and exhilarating. These courageous men and women are among the elite who forge headfirst into danger when everyone else is running the other way and whose actions make the difference between life and death.
Chicago Fire

An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
MINDHUNTER

A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.
No Sudden Move

Before introverted word-nerd Zoe gains the courage to enter the National Scrabble Championship, she meets her emotional match in Marty, an irascible recluse. She finds him equally pitted against the opposing forces in her life - other people - including family, co-workers and a couple of particularly irksome adversaries standing in the way of her dream to become the world's second female National Scrabble Champion.
Qwerty

Based on a true story, a woman enters rehab expecting solitude but is forced to share her space with a volatile teen. As their uneasy connection grows, she begins to confront the patterns that led her there and what healing might actually require.