Cat is an award-winning actor, writer, filmmaker and gender advisor for the United Nations. She is also founder and CEO of Kusini Productions.

She has been honoured as a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2022, longlisted for AllBright’s ‘Innovative Trailblazer Award’, heralded as one of 'Five Activists Who Should Be On Your Radar' by the Trouble Club (previous speakers including Gloria Steneim and Margaret Atwood) and is a BAFTA connect member.

She grew up between Northampton, Yorkshire and Wales before moving to Paris, Geneva and back to Paris again. She holds first class degrees in English & French from the University of Warwick and Women’s Studies from the University of Oxford. She is proud of being both state-school educated and an Oxford University alumni.

She can be seen in Amazon Prime’s Ten Percent, Channel 4's Threesome and the latest Black Mirror. She recently joined the Royal Shakespeare Company on Sir Gregory Doran’s swansong production of Cymbeline.

Her debut book This Thread of Gold, named by the New Statesman as an essential book for 2023, as the i's non-fiction book of the month and "extraordinary" by Afua Hirsch, was published in the UK in June 2023 by Dialogue Books and will be published in America in 2024 from Penguin Random House. She was selected by Meta for their illustrious Author Programme. She recently announced that she has adapted the final chapter of This Thread of Gold for screen and will direct it as a short film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

She is a proud ambassador for PAPYRUS, the UK's national charity for the prevention of young suicide and a proud mentor on The Page One Project.