Editing Catherine McCormack (section)

=== Film ===
McCormack's screen debut was as the lead in the Anna Campion-directed film ''[[Loaded (1994 film)|Loaded]]'' (1994). She has subsequently stated that she had a "miserable time with the director (Anna Campion)... it was my first film job, I needed to be mollycoddled, I needed to be helped through it, and I wasn't. Mostly, it was a horrible experience."<ref name=duerden/> Her first important role was as [[Action at Lanark|Murron MacClannough]] in the multiple [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning film ''[[Braveheart]]'' (1995).

After ''Braveheart'', McCormack starred alongside [[Anna Friel]] and [[Rachel Weisz]] in [[David Leland]]'s ''[[The Land Girls]]'' and had lead roles in [[Nils Gaup]]'s ''[[North Star (1996 film)|Northstar]]'' and [[Marshall Herskovitz]]'s ''[[Dangerous Beauty]]''. Other films include ''[[Spy Game]]'' (2001) and ''[[28 Weeks Later]]''. In 1998, she stated that "I read very few scripts I'm passionate about... Maybe one in every twenty or thirty."<ref>Blackwelder, Rob. [http://www.splicedonline.com/features/mccormack1.html Unrecognized 'Beauty': The surprising off-screen Catherine McCormack] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183615/http://www.splicedonline.com/features/mccormack1.html |date=3 March 2016}}, ''SPLICEDwire'', 6 February 1998. Retrieved 29 September 2009.</ref>