Kate McNeil

Birth Name:

Kate McNeil

Birth Place:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession

Actress

Best known for performing the main female character Melanie Parker in the horror movie “Monkey Shines,” starring Jason Beghe and John Pankow in 1988
Before becoming an actress, she earned a master’s degree in special education from California State University, Northridge
She is the daughter of the president of the U․S․ Cocoa Corporation company, and in 1987, she married stage manager Roy Friedland and had two children
She performed the character of Katherine Blakely in the episode “The Thin Red Line” of the police procedural television series “The Mentalist” in 2008

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