Catherine Urbanek is a graduate of the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama. She was the first student accepted to her freshmen class at the age of 16, the summer before her senior year of high school. Upon graduation, she moved to Los Angeles and has been working consistently in film, theater and new media.
Catherine's credits include the independent political feature Courting Des Moines playing Kelli Brown, campaign manager to a dark horse presidential candidate, The West Wing's Melissa Fitzgerald. The film also stars Carolyn Hennessy, Brandon Jones, Gina Belafonte and Brian Haley.
Catherine's other credits include Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life (20th Century Fox), The Duke: Based on the Memoir 'I'm The Duke' by J.P. Duke (official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival), Relationship Red Zone from Bent writer Marc Singer, A Little Game with Olympia Dukakis and F. Murray Abraham, Lucky Stiff with Jason Alexander, and Texas Heart with John Savage.
In 2013, Catherine formed her own production company, Bodacious Content, Inc., and has written and directed 4 short films, 2 web series, and 3 web pilots.
She wrote, directed and starred in the series "The Dates of Laura", about a young LA woman unlucky in love. The series was featured on the Funny or Die Community and her work was featured in the number one slot on the main page of the site.
She recently finished shooting three other series: "Rolling High", "Night Shift" and "Welcome Home, Loser!".
She is a proud member of the Actors Co-op Theater Company in Hollywood, where she last played the ever so posh Miss Caroline Bingley in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. At the Co-op she also played Eugene O'Neill's garish and boisterous prostitute Belle in Ah, Wilderness!
