Katharine Isabelle

Katharine Isabelle was initially asked to audition for the role of Lori in Freddy vs. Jason (2003), but when she arrived, director Ronny Yu claimed she would be better suited to a more liberal role and asked her to audition for the part of Gibb instead. Katharine reluctantly agreed. Yu did not tell her that she would be expected to do nude scenes, which would lead to friction between the two when she made it clear during filming that she would not do them.

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Katharine Isabelle, who has a no-nudity clause in her contract, refuses to do nude scenes and had a stand-in artist present in every instance where such a scene appeared, including the bed and shower scenes in Freddy vs. Jason (2003), the getting-out-of-bed scene in Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004) and the bed scene in Engaged to Kill (2006). The same woman doubled for her in the latter two.

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In addition to the Ginger Snaps (2000) trilogy, Katharine and her co-star Emily Perkins also played sisters in Another Cinderella Story (2008).

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After a day spent filming Ginger Snaps (2000), she went to a pharmacy, where the people there thought she had been beaten up because she still had fake blood on her.

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She guest-starred in three of North America's longest-running science fiction series: The X-Files (1993), Stargate SG-1 (1997) and Smallville (2001).

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Ginger Snaps (2000) is her favorite film she has worked on.

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Both Katharine and Emily Perkins (the lead actress in the Ginger Snaps (2000) films) guest-starred in different episodes of Supernatural (2005) and Da Vinci's Inquest (1998).

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She worked with her brother Joshua Murray three times: Cold Front (1989), The Last Winter (1989) and Knight Moves (1992).

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She auditioned for a role in The Aviator (2004), but completely bombed the audition because she was nervous in front of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, whom she admired.

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She was considered for the role of Rogue in X-Men (2000), which went to Anna Paquin.

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Her favorite film is Apocalypse Now (1979).

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She is regarded as today's Scream Queen (that is, a title given to actors who appear in multiple horror films).

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Despite appearing in numerous bloody horror and TV productions, she is afraid of seeing blood in real life. Fake blood, however, has no effect on her.

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She is the daughter of Graeme Murray and his wife Abigail "Gail".

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The first horror film she ever watched was The Blob (1988).

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She is afraid of spiders and the ocean.

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She is the sister of former child actor and journalist Joshua Murray.

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She decided not to audition for the role of Alexis Rose in Schitt's Creek (2015), but admits that Annie Murphy was perfectly cast as the spoiled youngest daughter of the Rose family.

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She does not like watching her own films or shows.

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Bette Davis and Leslie Howard are her acting inspirations.

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Aside from instances where her name was misspelled in credits, Katharine Isabelle considered 4 variations of her birth name for her screen credit, including Katharine Isobel, Kate Murray, Katharine Isobel Murray and Katie Murray, before finally settling on the stage name Katharine Isabelle.

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Although she is allergic to horses, she enjoys horseback riding and has to wear a face mask when near horses.

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Isabelle does not much care for her scream queen status, as she does not enjoy horror films because they scare her too much.

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She worked twice with fellow actor Kyle Labine; on Spooky House (2002) and Freddy vs. Jason (2003).

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