{"id":933215,"date":"2026-10-19T01:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933215\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T01:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:28:12","slug":"georgina-cates-dies-aged-51-death-goes-unreported-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933215\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgina Cates dies aged 51, death goes unreported for months"},"content":{"rendered":"

English actress Georgina Cates, who starred alongside A-list actors in films like Clay Pigeons and An Awfully Big Adventure, has died aged 51.<\/p>\n

Cates passed away on May 6, but her death went unreported for months. Her cause of death has not been made public.<\/p>\n

\"LOS<\/p>\n

Georgina Cates has died at aged 51. Pictured in 2014\/\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Cates\u2019 daughter Naiia revealed her mother had passed in an emotional Instagram post shared on June 11, more than a month after Cates died.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy beautiful, free-spirited mom lived a hard life and still found ways to make herself and others laugh and smile <3 now she can rest easy,\u201d Naiia wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will always see you in black and white photos, Virginia slims, baggy clothes, no bras, big sunglasses, doodling while talking, pleasers, and flip flops and everything in between.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love you, thank you for your creativity, curiosity and your bravery to always be true to yourself – no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born Clare Woodgate, she started acting in small TV roles when she was just 16 and starred in a string of sitcoms and other programs as a teen.<\/p>\n

She made her film debut at age 20, when she landed the role of Stella in the film An Awfully Big Adventure alongside Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman.<\/p>\n

Getting the part required a bit of trickery.<\/p>\n

She initially auditioned under her government name and missed out on the role, so she dyed her hair red, changed her accent and tried again as \u2018Georgina Cates\u2019, a 17-year-old who had zero acting experience. <\/p>\n

\"Georgina<\/p>\n

Cates starred opposite Hugh Grant in An Awfully Big Adventure.\u00a0 20th Century Studios\/Fine Line Features<\/p>\n

Somehow, it worked.<\/p>\n

Cates landed the role and went on to star in a number of films under her new name, including Clay Pigeons in 1998, where she shared the screen with Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix.<\/p>\n

Around the same time, she met and married American actor Skeet Ulrich of Scream fame, and they had two children: twins Jakob Ulrich and Naiia Rose Ulrich, born in 2001.<\/p>\n

\"Georgina<\/p>\n

Georgina Cates shared the screen with none other than Vince Vaughn in Clay Pigeons.\u00a0Gramercy Pictures<\/p>\n

She took some time off from acting while raising the children but returned to film after she and Ulrich divorced in 2005.<\/p>\n

Her last film credit was Everlasting, in 2016, and Cates had been working as a photographer before her death.<\/p>\n

Ulrich has not publicly commented on Cates\u2019 death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"English actress Georgina Cates, who starred alongside A-list actors in films like Clay Pigeons and An Awfully Big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-933215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}