Kate Burton
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Kate Burton

Born 10 September 1957 · Geneva, Switzerland
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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

Grey's Anatomy
127 Hours
13 Reasons Why
Supergirl
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Remember Me
Grimm
Modern Family
Big Trouble in Little China
Max Payne
Elementary
Unfaithful
Death on the Brandywine
Violent Ends
Oscar Wilde About America
The Surrender
guts
Our Son
Dumb Money
The Anne Frank Gift Shop
Heaven, I Suppose
Breaking
Sandra Day O'Connor: The First
The Codebreaker
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
At First Light
Noël Coward's Present Laughter
Bleeding Heart
Martyrs
Amok
Identity Theft
Barefoot
Don't Look Back
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center
Liberal Arts
2 Days in New York
Mariachi Gringo
Puncture
127 Hours
Consent
Remember Me
Spooner
Washingtonienne
Max Payne
What Just Happened
Hidden Treasure of the Mississippi
Quid Pro Quo
Sherrybaby
Stay
Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
Three Sisters
Unfaithful
Swimfan
Obsessed
The Opportunists
Celebrity
The Ice Storm
Ellen Foster
August
Mistrial
The First Wives Club
Love Matters
Life with Mikey
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Big Trouble in Little China
Alice in Wonderland
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