She is best known for working on The Quiet Girl[1] for which she received the European Film Award for Best Cinematographer.
[2] Kate McCullough spent her childhood on a dairy and onion farm in Meath, Ireland.
She first became interested in film when she was home sick from school and her mother rented a movie to entertain her.
[3] Kate McCullough went to Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design, and Technology.
Post-graduation, she attended Lodz Film School in Poland, for which she learned how to speak Polish.