Departures of note

Georgina Cates was an English actress who broke into television at 16, playing Jenny Porter in the first two series of the BBC sitcom 2point4 Children. Born Clare Elaine Woodgate in Colchester, she reinvented herself as the Liverpudlian 'Georgina Cates' to win the lead role of Stella in the 1995 film An Awfully Big Adventure, opposite Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant. She went on to appear in Frankie Starlight (1995), Illuminata (1998), A Soldier's Sweetheart (1998) and Clay Pigeons (1998), for which she earned critical acclaim. After a seven-year break from the industry, she returned to independent film in Sinner, winning a Best Actress award at the Brooklyn Arts Council International Film & Video Festival, and later appeared in Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa. She died in 2026 at the age of 51.