Kate Elliott (actress)

Kate Elliott (born 30 December 1981) is a New Zealand television and film actress.^[1] She was born in and currently resides in Auckland, New Zealand.^{[citation needed]}

Kate played the role of one of the "Liberators" in The Cult.^[2] More recently, she has acted in The Insider's Guide To Love,^[3] The Locals,^[4] Fracture,^[5] and Toy Love. She played Yakut, an Amazon, in several episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess, 1998–2000. Elliott also assumed the role of Lily in Cleopatra 2525. She plays a vampire in a film called 30 Days of Night and currently plays the role of Detective Jess Savage in the New Zealand mini-series The Gulf.^[1][6]

She was married to Pluto's lead singer, Milan Borich, on 17 January 2006. They have a daughter. In 2016 she eloped with David Benge, managing director of the New Zealand office of worldwide media company VICE.^[7][8] Both marriages had ended by 2019.^[9] Elliott came out queer to her daughter in 2019.^[9]