Kate Robbins is a renowned English actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter, born in Margate, Kent. She rose to prominence in the early 1980s with her hit song "More Than In Love", which reached No.2 on the UK Charts.
Robbins' family ties include being a first-cousin once-removed of Paul McCartney and older sister of fellow actress Amy Robbins. Her mother and McCartney were first cousins. She attended Wirral Grammar School for Girls in Bebington, Cheshire.
As a prolific voice actress, Robbins is most notable for her nine-year stint with the satirical show "Spitting Image". She also wrote the first theme tune to "Surprise, Surprise" and provided almost all of the female voices on the television show "Spitting Image" in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Robbins' television credits include the 1986 Granada Television sketch show "Kate & Ted's Show", which featured her, her brother Ted Robbins, and her sisters Amy Robbins, Jane Robbins, and Emma Robbins. Granada TV then commissioned "The Kate Robbins Show" in 1987.
She participated in the 1989 Children's Royal Variety Performance on BBC TV, singing her own comic songs at the piano, and featured in the original series of "Dead Ringers" on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.
Robbins also provided the English-language dubbing for Europeans, featured on the Channel 4 series Eurotrash in 2006. In 2007, Bedfordshire University awarded her an Honorary Bachelor of Arts degree for her lifetime contribution to the Performing Arts.
Robbins was amicably divorced from musician Keith Atack in 2008 after 19 years of marriage. Her three children are actor and comedian Emily Atack, born in 1989; Martha Atack, born in 1991; and George Atack, born in 1992.
In recent years, Robbins has toured the UK in the 1980s musical "Club Tropicana" as Consuela in 2018 and appeared in three episodes of season 3 of Netflix's "Afterlife" as fortune-telling author Penny Spencer-Wright.
