Kate Drummond

Kate Drummond (born October 21, 1975) is a Canadian film, television, theatre and voice actress; film producer, director and screenwriter. Kate starred as Nikki Bender alongside Brooke Shields in Hallmark Movies & Mysteries's Flower Shop Mystery TV movie series, she played Agent Lucado in the television series Wynonna Earp (2016 - 2017), as Authority Phydra in Utopia Falls (2020), and won best lead performance in a TV movie at the Canadian Screen Awards, for playing Claire Porter in Nowhere - Secrets of a Small Town (2019). In 2022, she starred alongside Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson in The Man from Toronto (2022 film). Early life Kate Drummond was born on October 21, 1975 in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada; and raised in Sarnia, Ontario. Her father was a police officer and her mother worked at a milk factory, before both switched to real estate while Kate was at primary school. After graduating from St. Patrick's Catholic High School in Sarnia, Drummond attended McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, obtaining Bachelor's degrees in 1998 in Kinesiology and Education. Kate worked as a full-time elementary school teacher for the Ottawa Catholic School Board for 12 years, before taking her first acting class at the age of 30, where she realised her "creative expression". Kate attended acting classes for 5 years, acting only in local theatre before deciding to leave teaching in 2006 and start her acting career. Career Drummond played a leading role as Nikki Bender alongside Brooke Shields in Hallmark Movies & Mysteries's Flower Shop Mystery TV movie series, where her character and Shields' are best friends running a flower shop.