She attended Queen Elizabeth School in Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria and Blackpool and The Fylde College, Lancashire.

Kate's earliest work is in the music video for The Beatles song "Free as a Bird" in 1995.

Some years later in 2002, she appeared in a spin-off episode of the popular BBC1 soap opera EastEnders which revolved around the characters of Ricky Butcher and Bianca Jackson.

Ford brought a darker side to the character in the programme, making her more "bitchy" than the simply misunderstood girl the other actresses portrayed.

[1] In June 2007, she filmed her first role after leaving Coronation Street, as Adele in Blue Murder, a detective drama.