
Kate Hampson
Acting
Biography
Kate Hampson is a Northern UK-based actress represented by Alex Priestley Talent. Kate played Kim Walsh in Season 4 of The Bay, playing alongside her real-life son Arthur Kay as Lewis Walsh. Kate's other credits include Better, Happy Valley, Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks. Kate also appeared as The Coppergate Woman in York Theatre Royal's 2022 production of The Coppergate Woman and at Hull Truck Theatre as Mrs Perks/Mother in The Railway Children. Kate trained at York St John University, and then at Utrecht School of Arts.
Known For

Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.
Happy Valley

Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.
The Bay

After a family tragedy is narrowly averted, a corrupt police detective undergoes a painful moral awakening and decides to put right twenty years of wrongdoing but satisfying her newfound conscience won't be straightforward.
Better

Little Rock, tells the story of Lana, a teenager learning to live with her dad's decline. It's a story about music, memory, and the painful beauty of love that endures, even when recognition begins to fade.
Little Rock

When Arthur receives a robotic carer who stops him from seeing his ill wife. Arthur must find a way to escape his imprisonment to be reunited with his wife one last time.
Fearfully Made

In the aftermath of losing their second child at birth, a family try to process loss and celebrate life.