Biography

Kate Abbruzzese was born on Long Island and is an American actress of Italian, Czech, and Irish descent. She is best known for her appearance as Princess Margaret in the final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which earned her a shout-out from Sam Sifton of the New York Times. In his weekly newsletter, Sifton wrote, "if Kate Abbruzzese's appearance as Princess Margaret in the penultimate episode breaks her into the bigs, that'd be a terrific outcome. She killed."

Abbruzzese attended Vassar College where she studied drama, psychology, English literature and poetry and performed with the Vassar Improv Troupe. She also played Lady Macbeth in an all-female Macbeth at Vassar's Powerhouse Theatre which earned her the Molly Thatcher Kazan Memorial Prize.

She later attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts' Graduate Acting Program on the Olympia Dukakis and Ron Van Lieu Scholarships, and graduated with her MFA, joining the ranks of alums such as Mahershala Ali, Nina Arianda, and Marcia Gay Harden.

Following her graduation, Abbruzzese acted extensively in regional theater and in New York. In 2019, she co-starred in the New York premiere of Pound at the Lion Theater, Off-Broadway, opposite Christopher Lloyd and wrote and starred in her original play, An Evening with the Macbeths at the Red Bull Theatre. She also originated roles in the world premiere of Newtown (2024) at the Geva Theater Center and the east coast premiere of Clean/Espejos (2023) at Hartford Stage, and played Ophelia in Hamlet, opposite Finn Wittrock, at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Abbruzzese's roles on television include the series' The Equalizer (2024), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2023), The Blacklist (2020) and NCIS: New Orleans (2018). She has appeared in the feature film, The Chaperone (2018) as the The Gypsy Woman, opposite Elizabeth McGovern and had lead roles in the independent film Siren (2021) and the independent short film Reflections (2017).

As a playwright, she is a one-time finalist and two-time winner of the Red Bull Short New Play Festival and a semi-finalist for the O'Neill's National Playwrights Conference.

Abbruzzese resides in Brooklyn, NY.
- IMDb mini biography by: Kate Abbruzzese and Lori Swift

Performed with the Vassar Improv and Vassar Shakespeare Troupe. Her senior project at Vassar college, playing Lady Macbeth in an all-female Macbeth at Vassar's Powerhouse Theatre, earned her the Molly Thatcher Kazan Memorial Prize. She attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts' Graduate Acting Program on the Olympia Dukakis and Ron Van Lieu Scholarships,.