Kate Nelligan as Lucy
When a schooner is wrecked off Whitby the only survivor is Count Dracula who has arrived with large amounts of Transylvanian soil to take up residence in Carfax Abbey. He makes friends with Dr Seward who runs the local asylum and with his daughter Lucy, her friend Mina, and with Jonathan Harker, Lucy's solicitor fiance. But almost immediately, Mina dies from loss of blood, and just possibly this may not be a coincidence.
Biography for Kate Nelligan
Birth name
Patricia Colleen Nelligan
Date of birth
16 March 1950
London, Ontario, Canada
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Trivia
Lives in Manhattan's fabled West Side apartment building, the Apthorp, whose residents include Cyndi Lauper. Rosie O'Donnell, Lena Horne, Conan O'Brien and Steve Kroft.
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: Excellent stagetrained actress who, after several false starts, has finally gained notice for her film work. She left Canada at 18 to study at London's Central School of Speech and Drama and gradually won acclaim for a variety of stage and television roles. She made her film debut in The Romantic Englishwoman (1975) and appeared in Dracula (1979, as Lucy), Mr. Patman (1980), and Eye of the Needle (1981), in which she was excellent as a lonely woman who becomes romantically involved with a Nazi spy. Nelligan moved to L.A. and starred in 1983's Without a Trace but had better luck on Broadway (earning Tony nominations for "Plenty," "A Moon for the Misbegotten," "Serious Money," and "Spoils of War") and appeared only sporadically in features, most notably Eleni (1985). There had been a certain coldness to her screen characters, but in 1991 she dazzled moviegoers and critics alike with an unexpected performance blending comic knowhow and a poignant believability as a sexually active, tough-talking New York waitress in Frankie and Johnny it was followed months later by a bravura turn as Nick Nolte's iron-willed mother in The Prince of Tides which earned her an Oscar nomination. She has since appeared in a number of TV movies as well as Fatal Instinct (1993) and Wolf (1994).
"Wrinkle in Time, A" (2002) (mini) TV Series .... Mrs. Which
Walter and Henry (2001) (TV) .... Elizabeth
Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111 (2000) (TV) .... Kate O'Rourke
Cider House Rules, The (1999) .... Olive Worthington
Swing Vote (1999) (TV) .... Justice Sara Marie Brandwynne
... aka Ninth Justice, The (1999) (TV) (Australia: video title)
Love Is Strange (1998) (TV) .... Kathryn McClain
Boy Meets Girl (1998/II) .... Mrs. Jones
U.S. Marshals (1998) .... U.S Marshal Catherine Walsh
Rape: A Crime of War (1997) (voice) .... Narrator
Stolen Moments (1997/I) (voice) .... Narrator
Calm at Sunset (1996) (TV) .... Margaret Pfeiffer
... aka Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn (1996) (TV) (USA)
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996) (TV) .... Elizabeth Mink
Up Close & Personal (1996) .... Joanna Kennelly
How to Make an American Quilt (1995) .... Constance Saunders
Margaret's Museum (1995) .... Catherine MacNeil
Mother's Prayer, A (1995) (TV) .... Sheila Walker
Million Dollar Babies (1994) (TV) .... Helena Reid
Into the Deep (1994) .... Narrator
Wolf (1994) .... Charlotte Randall
Spoils of War (1994) (TV) .... Elise
Fatal Instinct (1993) .... Lana Ravine
Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story (1993) (TV) .... Stephanie Chadford
... aka Shattered Trust (1993) (TV)
Marcel Proust: A Writer's Life (1993) (TV) .... Herself/Narrator
Liar, Liar (1992) (TV) .... Susan Miori
... aka Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter (1992) (TV) (USA)
Diamond Fleece, The (1992) (TV) .... Holly
Terror Stalks the Class Reunion (1992) (TV) .... Kay
... aka For Better and for Worse (1992) (TV)
Shadows and Fog (1992) .... Eve
Old Times (1991) (TV) .... Kate
Prince of Tides, The (1991) .... Lila Wingo Newbury
Frankie and Johnny (1991) .... Cora
Three Hotels (1991) (TV) .... Barbara Hoyle
Backstage at Masterpiece Theatre (1991) (TV) .... Herself
"Golden Fiddles" (1990) (mini) TV Series .... Anne Balfour
White Room (1990) .... Jane
Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher (1989) (TV) .... JoAnn Thatcher
... aka Love and Hate: A Marriage Made in Hell (1989) (TV)
Kojak: The Price of Justice (1987) (TV) .... Kitty
Giorno prima, Il (1987) .... Sarah Howell
... aka Control (1987)
Eleni (1985) .... Eleni
Without a Trace (1983) .... Susan Selky
Victims (1982) (TV) .... Ruth Hession
Eye of the Needle (1981) .... Lucy
"Th�r�se Raquin" (1980) (mini) TV Series .... Th�r�se
Mr. Patman (1980) .... Peabody
... aka Crossover (1980) (USA: video title)
Dracula (1979) .... Lucy Seward
Measure for Measure (1979) (TV) .... Isabella
... aka Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Measure for Measure, The (1979) (TV) (USA: video title)
Bethune (1977) (TV)
Lady of the Camellias, The (1976) (TV) .... Marguerite
Romantic Englishwoman, The (1975) .... Isabelle
... aka Une anglaise romantique (1975) (France)
Count of Monte Cristo, The (1975) (TV) .... Mercedes
Arcata Promise, The (1974) (TV) .... Laura
"Onedin Line, The" (1971) TV Series .... Leonora Biddulph