Katherine Kellgren


Katherine Ingrid Kellgren or Kjellgren was an American actress, known for her narration of audiobooks.

Personal life and education

Kellgren was born in 1969 in New York City, though she undertook a large proportion of her schooling in London. She studied acting at the London [Academy of Music and Dramatic Art].
Kellgren married writer David Cote in 2011.
She died on January 10, 2018, at Memorial [Sloan Kettering Cancer Center] from complications of cancer.

Career

Kellgren recorded radio plays early in her career, which prepared her for audiobook reader work.
Kellgren recorded over three hundred audiobooks. She was a multiple winner of the Audie Award and among her titles are five recipients of the American Library Association's Odyssey Award, as well as numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards, Publishers Weekly Listen Up Awards, and ForeWord Magazines Audiobook of the Year. She was named a Voice of Choice by Booklist magazine, and is on AudioFile magazine's list of Golden Voices.
In addition to her audiobook work, Kellgren performed on the stage, notably Laura in The Glass Menagerie in 2003 with the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey.

Awards and honors

As a narrator, Kellgren was the 2011 Booklist Voice of Choice. [AudioFile (magazine)|AudioFile] named her a Golden Voice Narrator. She won 11 Audie Awards and 43 Earphone Awards and was a finalist for numerous other awards.

"Best of" lists