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WHEN DESCRIBING KATE Mulvany it is impossible not to reach for a handful of adjectives, so varied is her career. Hollywood film and stage actor, playwright, adaptor and screenwriter are just a few ways you could describe the Western Australian native, professionally at least.
I have had the good fortune of knowing Mulvany for 14 years and can safely say ‘melodramatic’ is not a trait I would associate with her. So when she casually drops into the conversation that she’d recently had her throat cut open, you know they’re not the words of an attention-seeker, although when you consider the off-screen suffering this dignified woman has endured in life you wouldn’t begrudge her if they were. Rather, Mulvany is relating how she landed her lead role opposite Oscar-winner Al Pacino in the new Amazon Prime series Hunters, which debuted in February.
A survivor of childhood cancer (more on this later), Mulvany was rehearsing for the new Australian production of Ibsen’s at Sydney’s Belvoir theatre in late 2018 when she noticed something unusual in her throat. Fearing the cancer had returned,
