biography of Stana Katic

Stana Katić

 (/ˈstɑːnə ˈkætɪk/; born 26 April 1978  ) is a Canadian actress and producer. She played Kate Beckett on the ABC television romantic crime series Castle (2009–2016) and FBI Special Agent Emily Byrne in the psychological thriller series Absentia (2017–2020).

Katic was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.  In describing her ethnicity, she has stated "My parents are Serbs from Croatia. I call us Dalmatian because that's the part of the planet that we are originally from. I have Serb, Croat and even a handful of Montenegrin family members."  Her father is from Vrlika, Croatia, and her mother is from the surrounding area of Sinj, Croatia. 

Katic later moved with her family to Aurora, Illinois. She spent the following years moving back and forth between Canada and the United States. After graduating from West Aurora High School in 1996, Katic enrolled to study International Relations, Economics and pre-law at the University of Toronto's Trinity College and then at The Theatre School at DePaul University, where she studied toward an MFA in acting from 2000 to 2002. Katic studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school. 

Katic played Hana Gitelman in Heroes, Collette Stenger in 24's season five, and Jenny in the film Feast of Love starring Morgan Freeman. She also played Morgenstern in Frank Miller's film The Spirit, Canadian Intelligence agent Corrine Veneau in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (though she was originally up for the role of Strawberry Fields in the film ), and Simone Renoir in the third installment of The Librarian franchise, The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice.

In August 2008, ABC announced acquisition of the television series Castle, starring Katic as Kate Beckett and Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle.  In 2008, Katic established her own production company, Sine Timore Productions, which is Latin for "without fear". 

The entertainment website BuddyTV placed Katic, as Kate Beckett in Castle, on its annual list of "TV's 100 Sexiest Women" every year from 2009  to 2013, including at No. 1 in 2011. Aside from her looks, the website also gave her some credit as an actress, placing Katic at No. 6 on its list of "The 15 Best Drama Lead Actresses of the 2011–2012 TV Season". Katic was also on the Maxim Hot 100 list from 2012 through 2014. 

In the summer of 2010, Katic filmed For Lovers Only with the Polish brothers in France and The Double with Richard Gere. At the third annual Shorty Awards held on 28 March 2011, she won the actress category.  In May 2011, she won the Most Glamorous Actress online ballot for the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. 

In 2011, she served as a jury member at the Film Festival Zlín, where For Lovers Only made its world premiere. Big Sur, in which she plays Lenore Kandel, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013.  In conjunction with the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con, there was an official announcement in Entertainment Weekly that she would become the voice for Talia al Ghul in Batman: Arkham City. 

About

Actress who became known to television audiences as NYPD Detective Kate Beckett on the popular show Castle. She also played Sophia in the 2010 film Lovers Only and Lenore Kandel in Big Sur. 

Before Fame

After graduating from high school, she spent time studying and training at Chicago's Goodman School of Drama. 

Trivia

She played Corrine Veneau in 2008's Quantum of Solace.

• She beat out more than 100 other actresses for the role of Kate Beckett on Castle (2009).
• She won a PRISM award in the mental health category for her portrayal of Kate Beckett's post-traumatic stress disorder in Kill Shot (2011).
• Stana speaks Serbian, French, English, and Italian. She can also speak in accents of British, Irish, Eastern European, Italian, Spanish, Greek, and South African.
• Stana holds dual citizenship in the United States and Canada.
• Much like her character Kate Beckett on Castle (2009), Katic is an avid reader. She also has a strong interest in environmental issues, archery, and music.
• Her husband, Kris Brkljac (m. 2015), made a cameo appearance in the Castle (2009) episode Death Gone Crazy (2013).
• Stana wrote the lyrics for "Hey Blue Eyes," which she sang for fans at the 51st Zlin Film Festival in 2011.
• Founded the nonprofit Alternative Travel Project in 2010.
• Was a relative unknown when she got the lead role in Truth About Kerry (2010) in 2004. Because it went unreleased for so long, by the time the film was screened at film festivals in 2010, she had already become a recognizable name for her role on Castle (2009).
• Is the oldest of six siblings.
• Ranked #50 on Maxim's "Hot 100" of 2014 list.
• Her hometown is Hamilton, Ontario, located about an hour from Toronto.
• Attended The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago.
• Cool Boys (2015) was the first episode of Castle (2009) in which she did not appear.
• Her birthday is the day after her wedding anniversary.
• Her first name is pronounced "STA-nah.".
• Emily Byrne in Absentia (2017) is her first leading role since the end of Castle (2009). She filmed The Rendezvous (2016) and Sister Cities (2016) while Castle (2009) was still on the air, and her part in Lost in Florence (2017) is a supporting role, not the lead.
• Revealed on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005) on May 4, 2009, that she has four brothers and used to cut their hair.
• Though she played their commanding officer on Castle (2009), she is younger than both Jon Huertas and Seamus Dever.
• Despite relatively high billing in the opening credits of The Double (2011), she has only about five minutes of screen time.
• Crossfire (2016), the series finale of Castle (2009), aired a couple of weeks after she turned 38. Flowers for Your Grave (2009), the series premiere, aired a couple of weeks before Nathan Fillion turned 38.
• Is a fan of the BBC TV series Peaky Blinders (2013) and Cillian Murphy's antihero Thomas Shelby.
• Has played real people in two films: Beat poet Lenore Kandel in Big Sur (2013) and rock singer Genya Ravan in CBGB (2013).
• Two years before she began solving murders as Kate Beckett on Castle (2009), she played a woman suspected of committing a murder in the CSI: Miami (2002) episode Deep Freeze (2007).
• Born on the same date as Pablo Schreiber.

Family Life

Her mom is Serbian and her dad is Croatian. She has four brothers. In 2015, she married Kris Brkljač. in December 2022, she welcomed her first child.

Associated With

She starred alongside Olga Kurylenko in the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace. 

In January 2012, she was a presenter at the 64th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards. She was the recipient of the PRISM Award for Performance in a Drama Episode at the 16th Annual PRISM Awards for her portrayal of suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder in the Castle season-four episode "Kill Shot".  Katic was nominated for the 39th People's Choice Awards in the Favorite Dramatic TV Actress category,^[33] before winning the category at the 40th People's Choice Awards. 

Katic portrayed rock singer and producer Genya Ravan in the 2013 film CBGB. In April 2016, ABC and ABC Studios confirmed that they would not be renewing Katic's contract for a ninth season of Castle, which would be a shortened season in a cost cutting effort. The series was outright canceled on 12 May 2016. 

Katic played Carolina Baxter in the Lifetime film Sister Cities that premiered on 17 September 2016. On 26 September 2016, she appeared in White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour at New York's Westside Theatre. Katic starred as Rachel Rozman in the 2016 film, The Rendezvous, opposite Raza Jaffrey.  In 2016, Katic was cast in the horror film Cadaver^[41] In January 2017, Katic appeared as Anna in the film Lost in Florence. 

Katic was cast as Emily Byrne in the AXN series Absentia that premiered in 2017. 

In 2019, she played Vera Atkins in A Call to Spy, the film is inspired by the stories of three women who worked as spies in World War II. 

mini bio :

Stana Katic recently starred in the TV series, Absentia, streaming on Amazon. It's a thriller-drama produced by Sony Pictures Television. Upon debut it was one of Amazon's top-ten most popular programs.

Stana's feature film work includes, CBGB, Big Sur, The Spirit, Feast of Love, The Double and Bond franchise installment Quantum of Solace.

For 8 seasons, Stana starred as Kate Beckett on Castle. The ABC hit series brought in over 10 million viewers weekly and is in the top five syndicated series in Spain, France, the UK, Italy, and Germany.

Stana has ten award nominations and seven wins - including three People's Choice Awards, a PRISM Award, and three TV Guide Awards

Stana is also dedicated to philanthropic projects with a focus on the Environment and on Children's Education and Healthcare. This work has kept her involved with organizations from around the globe

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