Kate Burton

Acting · Born 1957-09-10 · Geneva, Switzerland

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.

Known for

• Violent Ends (2025)
• Oscar Wilde About America (2025)
• The Surrender (2025)
• guts (2024)
• Our Son (2023)
• Dumb Money (2023)
• The Anne Frank Gift Shop (2023)
• Heaven, I Suppose (2023)
• Breaking (2022)
• Sandra Day O'Connor: The First (2021)
• The Codebreaker (2021)
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)
• At First Light (2018)
• Noël Coward's Present Laughter (2017)
• Bleeding Heart (2015)
• Martyrs (2015)
• Amok (2015)
• Identity Theft (2015)
• Barefoot (2014)
• Don't Look Back (2014)
• Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center (2013)
• Liberal Arts (2012)
• 2 Days in New York (2012)
• Mariachi Gringo (2012)