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Tuesday 10th February - 2015

Award winning actress Kim Cattrall will be attending this year's Jameson Dublin International Film Festival to screen exclusively to Irish audiences episodes of her new Sky Arts TV series Sensitive Skin and will participate in an elite master class at The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art. The admired actress has an esteemed career in cinema, theatre and television, from her film debut in Otto Preminger’s Rosebud to her roles in 80’s classics Mannequin and Big Trouble in Little China to Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer – she has also appeared on stage for her performances in Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Arthur Millers A View from the Bridge and Noël Coward’s Private Lives on the West End. Her most iconic role as the alpha female Samantha Jones in HBO’s Sex and The City transformed her into one of television’s most beloved and infamous characters of all time and gained her international recognition. Kim Cattrall won over audiences, critics and peers as Samantha for which she was nominated for five Emmys, four Golden Globes (which she was awarded in 2002) and two Screen Actors Guild awards. Grainne Humphreys, Festival Director, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival says: “An accomplished performer on both stage and screen, Kim Cattrall moves effortlessly between drama and comedy, with roles ranging from Cleopatra on stage to her acclaimed portrayal of Samantha in Sex and the City to her big screen work with filmmakers such as John Boorman and Roman Polanski. A fascinating speaker about her love of acting and her approach to her craft it is a honour to welcome Kim Cattrall to the Festival to discuss her career with Irish audiences and launch her new Sky Arts television programme Sensitive Skin.” Kim Cattrall says: “I am very much looking forward to attending the Dublin International Film Festival and screening my new show 'Sensitive Skin'. I have always felt welcomed and at home during my visits and I am looking forward to the Festival” As part of her visit to the Festival, Kim Cattrall will be the focus of a master class hosted by The Lir Academy for their students. Following the success of Stanley Tucci’s Q&A to the students last year this will be the second year that The Lir will host these master classes. Loughlin Deegan, Director of The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art: “This growing partnership between The Lir Academy and JDIFF is of enormous benefit to our students who get to meet with and learn from some of the finest actors in the world. Kim Cattrall in particular will have much knowledge to impart from a fascinating career that has balanced TV and film work with an on-going and recently renewed interest in working in the theatre.”