Katherine Wallace has been actively performing and appearing in high profile works addressing human rights and social justice issues from a young age. Her capacity for using the screen and stage as a platform for bringing awareness, inspiring hope and connection, and encouraging change is unmatched.
Her professional film debut was in a leading role opposite AFI Award winner Annie Byron in the short film Glory (2007), which was funded by the Australian Film Commission, Screen Australia and Metro Screen. Shortly afterwards, she booked a national commercial, and appeared alongside Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber in Marvel's blockbuster X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). She also appeared in a pivotal role in Late Tuesday (2009), a cinematically beautiful and disturbing film that sought to expose the prevalence of rape and violence against young women.
She was accepted to the prestigious 3 year conservatory program at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and moved to New York City in 2010. She was recognized as an emerging artist of exceptional talent by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and awarded an arts grant of the highest eligibility. While in New York, she performed in the "Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Shakespeare Benefit," the feminist play "Vinegar Tom," directed by award-winning director Kathy Gail MacGowan, and the original physical theatre piece about gun violence, "Overload".
She graduated in 2013 and relocated to Los Angeles, where she immediately signed with both a theatrical and commercial agent, and went on to perform in multiple prolific film, television and theater productions addressing human rights and social justice. Her most notable works include the lead role in the world premiere of the ethnodrama "Call This Number", which earned critical acclaim in The Los Angeles Times, OC Weekly and the OC Register; appearing in an anti-bullying performance of "Really Don't Care" at the Teen Choice Awards 2014 (2014), alongside Demi Lovato and Cher Lloyd; and her performance with Levitere in "One Billion Rising," by Eve Ensler the largest mass action in history to combat violence against women, alongside award-winning actress Mercy Malick, speakers Frances Fisher, Sufe Bradshaw, Gethin Anthony, Don Most, G. Hannelius, and Akil I LuQman, and the international flash mob dance choreographed by Debbie Allen.
In 2016, Katherine will be appearing in an inspiring music video and PSA, 'One In A Million', that will bring awareness to domestic violence and abuse, for the new song co-written by Grammy Award winner Danny Weinkauf and Emmy Award winner Suzanne Luna. The music video is produced by Emmy Award nominee Johanna Stein, and was directed by Suzanne Luna. Katherine can also be seen in the upcoming feature films Gehenna (2016) and False Memory Syndrome (2016) in 2016.
She resides in Los Angeles, California.
