Caroline Catz

Caroline Catz
Catz on the set of Doc Martin
Born	Caroline Caplan (1969-10-19) 19 October 1969 (age 47) Manchester, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1992–present
Television	The Vice (1999-2003) Doc Martin (2004—) DCI Banks (2012–2016) I Want My Wife Back (2016)
Spouse(s)	Michael Higgs (m. 1997)
Children	2

Caroline Catz (born Caroline Caplan 19 October 1969) is an English film, television, theatre and radio actress, best known for her role as Louisa Glasson in Doc Martin since 2004.

Her other roles have included Detective Inspector Kate Ashurst in Murder in Suburbia, Detective Inspector Helen Morton in DCI Banks, and PC Cheryl Hutchins in The Vice.

Catz began acting in the early 1990s, initially playing minor roles. On registering with Equity, she discovered that an actress with the name Caroline Caplan was already registered, so she had to choose a different professional name.

She played opposite Michael Kitchen in a TV movie, The Guilty, that opened in June 1992. In 1994 she took a lead role in the BBC's All Quiet on the Preston Front, which ran for three series. She followed this with a spell in The Bill as Rosie Fox, during which she met Michael Higgs, who later became her husband. Her part in The Bill was the first of four long-term roles in which she played police officers; in The Vice she was a PC, in Murder in Suburbia and DCI Banks she was a Detective Inspector.

Since 2004, Catz has starred in ITV's Doc Martin, where she plays primary school headmistress Louisa Glasson.

Catz has continued to appear in one-off roles, including In Denial of Murder, in which she played real-life murder victim Wendy Sewell, and in an episode of Hotel Babylon. She also appeared in a two-part episode of Single Handed entitled The Stolen Child as Dr Maggie Hunter. Originally shown in Ireland in January 2008, it was broadcast by ITV on 9 August 2009.