Kate Vernon

About Kate Vernon

Kate Vernon (born c. 1961) is a Canadian-born film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Lorraine Prescott on the CBS soap opera Falcon Crest from (1984–1985), and for her role as the stuck-up Benny Hanson in the comedy film Pretty in Pink (1986).

Vernon was briefly a regular on Who's the Boss? in 1990 as a girlfriend of Tony Micelli (Tony Danza). Most recently, Vernon has played the scheming Lady Macbeth-like Ellen Tigh on Battlestar Galactica.

Her father was actor John Vernon, and her sister is singer/actress Nan Vernon.