Kim Cattrall Returns to Liverpool to Star in ANTONY & CLEOPATRA; PRIVATE LIVES Broadway Transfer Also Possible

This autumn, actress Kim Cattrall will return to her birth city of Liverpool to play Cleopatra in the Liverpool Everyman Theatre's production of ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

After two years of talk with the theatre, Cattrall has agreed to join the cast for a limited run. The Everyman Theatre is still confirming the dates before officially announcing the production.

Cattrall has taken to the stage in London numerous times, including her role in Richard Eyre's production of PRIVATE LIVES by Noel Coward at the Vaudeville Theatre. Early next year, Cattrall and co-star Matthew Macfadyen will transfer PRIVATE LIVES to Broadway.

Kim Cattrall has had an extensive acting career that spans film, stage and television. She is the winner of a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and received 5 Emmy Award nominations for her role as femme-fatale Samantha Jones in "Sex and the City." "Sex and the City 2" will be released on May 28. Her films include the upcoming Roman Polanski political thriller "The Ghost," and "Meeting Monica Valour." Other film credits include "Porky's," "Police Academy," "Bonfire of the Vanities," "Star Trek VI," John Carpenter's cult classic "Big Trouble in Little China," "Mannequin" and "The Tiger's Tail." She was also seen in the TV movie "My Boy Jack," opposite Daniel Radcliffe.

Her West End credits include WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?, David Mamet's THE CRYPTOGRAM, Arthur Miller's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, Anton Chekhov's THREE SISTERS, and WILD HONEY.

An acclaimed writer, Kim has also written several books, including "Sexual Intelligence" which was a National Best Seller, "Being a Girl: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Teenage Life"; and "Satisfaction: The Art of the Female org*sm", a New York Times best seller. Born in Liverpool, she was recently the subject of BBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?"

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