Katrin Cartlidge

An intense British actress who specialized in small, independent projects, Cartlidge got her start onstage, touring throughout Scotland and England in the late 1970s and 80s.

Cartlidge made her film debut with a small role in Sacred Hearts, but real success came with her second film, Mike Leigh's dank, caustic drama Naked.

Thin and pale, she played the punk bedmate of grungy loser Johnny (David Thewlis), earning critical praise and European awards for her funny, bizarre performance.

Cartlidge also appeared in the 1994 short Fever as a woman with a mother complex and love problems and she was the girlfriend of two men in Milcho Manchevski's Oscar-nominated Before the Rain, the first film to be made in Macedonia.

She played an eco-terrorist in the Swedish psycho-drama Seasickabd among Cartlidge's other films were the erotic drama Look Me in the Eye and the mystery, Three Steps to Heaven.

She had another personal triumph with Lars Von Trier's emotional roller-coaster Breaking the Waves. While her role was subsidiary to that of Emily Watson, Cartlidge still shone as Watson's over-protective sister-in-law.

After the world-wide acclaim of Breaking the Waves, Cartlidge briefly appeared as the author's sister in Anand Tucker's Saint-Ex, a tribute to novelist and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and landed the lead in Mike Leigh's "Career Girl as one of two women on a London holiday weekend.

In 2001 she found success in the both the moving and acclaimed No Man's Land and From Hell.

She died in September 2002 aged 41, from complications caused by blood poisoning and pneumonia.