Kate Horn

Kate was born in California in 1989 but grew up in Alaska, moving to Oregon when she was sixteen. In her teen years, she spent most of her nights writing poetry and screenplays. She was an avid choir singer and theater enthusiast. From 2007-2012, she attended Portland State University where she majored in Film Studies with a focus in acting and screenwriting. There, she studied improvisation acting extensively and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine and Performing Arts. Her first role was playing a quirky, Gothic, lesbian costume maker in Houston Hughes' Hammer City (2011). She made an appearance in the television pilot Intertwine (2013). And, she also had featured roles in music videos for Portland, Oregon music artists Michele Wylen in 2012 and Adventure Galley in 2014. She was cast in her first lead role as Jessica Huberman in the popular Youtube horror web-series Jessica Forever (2013). She was first contacted by the director, Westley Cornwall, the year prior, when he offered her a lead role in a music video, after seeing her accent reel on Youtube. Unfortunately, the band broke up before the music video could be shot. However, this turned into another opportunity as Cornwall still expressed keen interest in wanting to work with her. He began writing a web-series, and in the process, he put her through three auditions: two videos and one in person. One day, when she was home sick from work, she received the call that she had gotten the part. Although she could barely move or shout for joy, she recalls dancing on the inside. Only two episodes of Jessica Forever were made, and they garnered close to 100,000 hits. Despite it's short run, it lead to more exposure in the Portland film community and more networks. From early 2014, to the fall, she has been in pre-production for two short films that she has written and will be acting in. And, in the summer of 2014, the horror genre found her again when she was cast as the lead role of Alex in Jesse Rainey's new zombie mini-series DayZ (2014), which is in pre-production.