Kate Burton
Acting
Biography
Kate Burton is a Swiss-born Welsh-American stage and screen actress. She is best known for her TV roles as Vice President Sally Langston on ABC's Scandal, Vera Quinn on the Audience Network's series Full Circle, and Dr. Ellis Grey on ABC's Grey's Anatomy.
She holds an BA in Russian Studies and European History from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, New Haven, Connecticut.
As actor 118
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
Grey's Anatomy
2005
Modern Family
2009
FBI
2018
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Grimm
2011
The West Wing
1999
The Good Wife
2009
Elementary
2012
The Closer
2005
Supergirl
2015
Great Performances
1971
Tony Awards
1956
Numb3rs
2005
This Is Us
2016
Scandal
2012
Medium
2005
The Practice
1997
Judging Amy
1999
Rescue Me
2004
13 Reasons Why
2017
American Experience
1988
Madam Secretary
2014
American Playhouse
1982
Bosch: Legacy
2022
Veep
2012
Inventing Anna
2022
Unfaithful
2002
The Gifted
2017
Key & Peele
2012
The Beast in Me
2025
Charmed
2018
Extant
2014
Prodigal Son
2019
Revolution
2012
So Help Me Todd
2022
The Mosquito Coast
2021
Dumb Money
2023
Spenser: For Hire
1985
The Dropout
2022
127 Hours
2010
Remember Me
2010
100 Centre Street
2001
Big Trouble in Little China
1986
Eleventh Hour
2008
Justice
2006
Stay
2005
Max Payne
2008
The Ice Storm
1997
The First Wives Club
1996
Brooklyn Bridge
1991
Violent Ends
2025
Celebrity
1998
Puncture
2011
Ellis Island
1984
Breaking
2022
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
Barefoot
2014
Liberal Arts
2012
Perfect Harmony
2019
Monty
1994
Home Fires
1992
Empire Falls
2005
Full Circle
2013
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Deep End
2010
The Surrender
2025
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019
What Just Happened
2008
Working Shakespeare
2003
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
2003
Quid Pro Quo
2008
Swimfan
2002
Our Son
2023
Martyrs
2015
2 Days in New York
2012
Evergreen
1985
Life with Mikey
1993
Looking for Richard
1996
Bleeding Heart
2015
Identity Theft
2015
At First Light
2018
August
1996
Mistrial
1996
Caris' Peace
2011
The Codebreaker
2021
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
Sherrybaby
2006
Death on the Brandywine
2026
Ellen Foster
1997
A Great Depression
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1987
Obsessed
2002
Hidden Treasure of the Mississippi
2008
BULLDOZER
2025
Spooner
2009
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988
Alice in Wonderland
1983
The Opportunists
2000
Love Matters
1993
Heaven, I Suppose
2023
Noël Coward's Present Laughter
2017
The Vote
2020
Don't Look Back
2014
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center
2013
Three Sisters
2003
Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
2005
Sandra Day O'Connor: The First
2021
Notes for My Daughter
1995
Consent
2010
Washingtonienne
2009
The Anne Frank Gift Shop
2023
Mariachi Gringo
2012
Oscar Wilde About America
2025
Amok
2015
guts
2024