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Katharine Towne
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Katharine Towne (born Katharine Payne Towne, July 17, 1978, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) is an American actress, 5′ 7″ (170 cm) tall, the daughter of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Towne and actress Julie Payne, and granddaughter of actors John Payne and Anne Shirley. She initially wanted to be a writer, inspired by her father's legacy, before realizing she was a born actor. She made her screen debut in Girl (1998) and was married to actor Charlie Hunnam from 1999 to 2002. Her most notable film credits include Cynthia Jenzen in Mulholland Drive (2001, directed by David Lynch), Caitlin Spencer in What Lies Beneath (2000, with Halle Berry and Mateo Velasco), Nadine in Ev…
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Katharine Towne (born Katharine Payne Towne, July 17, 1978, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) is an American actress, 5′ 7″ (170 cm) tall, the daughter of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Towne and actress Julie Payne, and granddaughter of actors John Payne and Anne Shirley. She initially wanted to be a writer, inspired by her father's legacy, before realizing she was a born actor. She made her screen debut in Girl (1998) and was married to actor Charlie Hunnam from 1999 to 2002. Her most notable film credits include Cynthia Jenzen in Mulholland Drive (2001, directed by David Lynch), Caitlin Spencer in What Lies Beneath (2000, with Halle Berry and Mateo Velasco), Nadine in Evolution (2001, with David Duchovny and Sean William Scott), Sinead in But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), Savannah in She's All That (1999, with Freddie Prinze Jr.), Monique in The Bachelor (1999, with Ben Stiller), Leah Cahan in Something New (2006, with Ginnifer Goodwin and Cameron Diaz), and a role in Blades of Glory (2007, with Will Ferrell and Jonah Hill). On television she is best known as Mason in Tell Me You Love Me (2007, 9 episodes, HBO), with additional credits in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999), M.Y.O.B. (2000, 4 episodes), Undeclared (2001), and CSI: NY (2011).
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Katharine Towne's Filmography
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Beauty and the Least
as Erin Parker
Blur
as Sarah
Amar
as Diane
Blades of Glory
as Female Sex Addict
Something New
as Leah Cahan
Mr. Dramatic
as Elizabeth
No Poster
Barry Dingle
as Joanna Wojohowsky
Trespassing
as Interviewer
Easy Sex
as Sally Iverson
Sol Goode
as Chloe
LD 50 Lethal Dose
as Helen
Sweet Home Alabama
as Erin Vanderbilt (uncredited)
The Anarchist Cookbook
as Jody
No Poster
Scream at the Sound of the Beep
as Samantha
Evolution
as Nadine
Mulholland Drive
as Cynthia
Town & Country
as Holly
What Lies Beneath
as Caitlin Spencer
The In Crowd
as Morgan
But I'm a Cheerleader
as Sinead
The Bachelor
as Monique
Go
as Becky
She's All That
as Savannah
Girl
as Marjorie
Without Limits
as Coed #1