Kate O'Mara was an English film, stage and television actress, and writer. She was perhaps most widely known for her 1986 role as Caress Morell, the scheming sister of Alexis Colby in the American primetime soap opera Dynasty. O'Mara made her stage debut in a 1963 production of The Merchant of Venice. Her other stage roles included Elvira in Blithe Spirit, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Cleopatra in Antony & Cleopatra, Goneril in King Lear and Marlene Dietrich in Lunch with Marlene. Her films included two 1970 Hammer Horror fillms, The Vampire Lovers and The Horror of Frankenstein. On television, she also had regular roles in The Brothers, Triangle and Howards' Way, and portrayed the recurring part of the Rani in Doctor Who in 1985 and 1987. She also appeared as Jackie Stone in two episodes of the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. 

August 10th, 1939 in Leicester  /  Died:   Mar 30th, 2014