Acting

Catherine Balavage

Born 1984-08-12 · Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

Catherine Balavage is a writer, actor, author and editor of Frost Magazine. She has also appeared in the West End and in many films including Junkhearts with Eddie Marsden and Le Fear, Le Sequel. She has written four books and is permanently working on her next one. She also writes and directs her own films. She likes film, politics, music and cats.

Acting credits

Hugo poster
7.2

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

Hugo

2011

Shanghai poster
6.1

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

Shanghai

2010

W.E. poster
6.3

In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.

W.E.

2011

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll poster
6.2

A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s.

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

2010

Glorious 39 poster
6.0

A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an unexpected pawn. Her accidental discovery of secret recordings creates a rift in the family.

Glorious 39

2009

It's a Wonderful Afterlife poster
4.8

Indian mother Mrs Sethi's obsession with marrying off her daughter turns murderous. With jokes that routinely miss the mark and cringeworthy slapstick, this black comedy farce shouldn't work. Somehow, though, it does.

It's a Wonderful Afterlife

2010

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5.8

Victorian inspired modern day supernatural film noir, set against the backdrop of Whitechapel, mediums and the work of supposed pagan architect Nicholas Hawksmoore.

Puritan

2006

Junkhearts poster
4.6

Frank is an ex-soldier, haunted by a violent past. He lives alone, drowning his nightmares with alcohol. Christine - smart and successful... on the surface, tackles life as a single working mother by immersing herself in drugs, parties and sex. Lynette, a young rough sleeper watches Christine stumble out of a club whilst she sits in the cold waiting for loose change to fall on her lap; her luck seems to change when she meets Frank who despite his misgivings, offers her a place to stay.

Junkhearts

2011

Le Fear II: Le Sequel poster
6.0

After the disaster of Le Fear, director Carlos Revalos decides to make a sequel with a bigger budget. What could go wrong? Simply everything.

Le Fear II: Le Sequel

2016

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NR

A trio of film students decide to get the money for a low budget film project by stealing a drug dealers wad of illicit cash, but things go wrong.

Get Ca$h

2012

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A mini movie mogul attempts to pitch his film to a Hollywood movie star, oblivious to the greater drama occurring around him.

The Big Idea