Kate Siegel is an American actress and screenwriter best known for her roles in the 2016 slasher film Hush and The Haunting of Hill House, a supernatural horror drama television series that premiered in 2018. Hush’s screenplay was also co-written by her. Her works with her director husband Mike Flanagan, who is known for his horror films, are well-known. They originally collaborated on the film Oculus in 2013, and have since collaborated on a number of other projects, including Hush and The Haunting of Hill House. Despite the fact that her partnership with Flanagan has been a big success, she has also worked on other projects without him. She started acting on stage after taking an acting class at Syracuse University. With The Curse of the Black Dahlia, she made her feature debut, while Ghost Whisperer marked her television debut.
Career of Kate Siegel
Kate Siegel began her acting career on stage after finishing her undergraduate studies, performing with the Washington Shakespeare Company and the Folger Theatre. The 2008 Tennessee Shakespeare Festival performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was one of the notable theatre productions in which she took part.
In 2007, she made her acting debut in Dan Goldman’s direct-to-video horror thriller The Curse of the Black Dahlia. She also starred in the crime thriller drama Hacia la oscuridad (Towards Darkness) and the drama Steam in the same year. She starred in the short films Knocked Down and Puke in My Mouth in 2008 and 2009. In 2009, she made her television debut with an episode of the spooky series Ghost Whisperer, in which she played Cheryl.
Following that, he made a series of one-off cameos in other television shows. Numbers (2010), The Unknown (2012), Castle (2012), Where Would We Be (2012), and Mob City (2012) are among them (2013). In the meantime, she appeared in films such as Wedding Day (2012), Man Camp (2013), Demon Legacy (2014), and Hot (2016). The Collector (2012), Dead Room: Origins (2014), The Program (2015), and Wine Jabs are some of her short films from this time period (2015).
Siegel is best known for her collaborations with her husband, filmmaker Mike Flanagan, in which she has acted in a variety of productions. Flanagan co-wrote, edited, and directed the supernatural, psychological horror thriller Oculus in 2013, which was their debut collaboration.
Following that, in 2016, Kate Siegel starred in the suspenseful horror movie Hush, in which she played a deaf and dumb writer whose peaceful life in the woods is threatened when a brutal masked killer begins stalking her. The picture got positive reviews, and Siegel was nominated for several awards. She not only acted in the picture, but she also co-wrote the script with Flanagan.
They reunited for the Netflix supernatural horror drama series The Haunting of Hill House in 2018. They previously worked together in the supernatural horror film Ouija: Origin of Evil in 2016 and the psychological horror thriller Gerald’s Game in 2017. The drama was the first in Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting anthology series, and Siegal played adult Theodora Theo Crain, loosely based on Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel. The series was well received by critics, and it spawned a sequel, The Haunting of Bly Manor, based on Henry James’ 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw. The series premiered on Netflix in 2020, and several performers from the first season, including Siegal, reprised their roles. Midnight Mass, a supernatural horror web television series, is their next collaboration (Netflix, 2021).
Her other projects around this time include the short film Let’s Go Down (2019) and an episode of the action police procedural television series Hawaii Five-0 (2020). Hypnotic, a horror thriller, is her other future project.
Kate Siegel has starred in a commercial for Stelera, a prescription drug for psoriasis sufferers, in addition to performing in films and television series.
She’s also contributed her voice to the horror podcasts Calling Darkness and The NoSleep Podcast.
Personal & Family Life
Kate Gordon Siegelbaum was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, on August 9, 1982, to Laura and Paul Siegelbaum. She attended St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Silver Spring and Potomac, Maryland, where she was raised. She realized her affinity for acting in high school and chose to pursue it further. She enrolled in an acting class at Syracuse University and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting in 2004.
In 2016, she married Mike Flanagan, a horror film director who is most recognized for his work. Cody Paul (born in 2016) and Theodora Isabelle Irene (born in 2017) are the couple’s two children (born in 2018). Siegel played the character of Hill House in the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House, and their daughter is named after him. Mike Flanagan also has a son from a previous relationship, Rigby Flanagan-Bell (born in 2010).
Estimated Net Worth
As an actress, her earnings are $125k US. Kate’s net worth is $3 million US.