Catriona MacColl

Catriona MacColl is a name I associate with a very specific corner of cinema: Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy. Appearing in City of the Living Dead, The Beyond, and The House by the Cemetery all within roughly a year, this London-born actress became a fixture of early-1980s Italian horror, sometimes credited as Katherine MacColl. I admire how she committed to a genre that the mainstream long dismissed, lending real dramatic weight to surreal, dreamlike films. That she worked extensively across European film and television, not just horror, reminds me she was a versatile performer who happened to find immortality in the strangest of places.

Catriona MacColl (born 3 October 1954), also credited as Katherine MacColl, is an English actress, who has worked extensively in both film and television across Europe. She is perhaps best known for her work in Italian horror films, as she has appeared in Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy; City of the Living Dead (1980), The Beyond (1981) and The House by the Cemetery (1981).

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Name (English)

Catriona MacColl

Name (Japanese)

カトリオーナ・マッコール

Reading

かとりおーな・まっこーる

Born

October 3, 1954 (age 71)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Horse

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Blood type

Private

Height

Private

Agency

Private

Occupation

actor / film actor

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Private

University

Private

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB

Tags

• actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.