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 I'd pretend to be American and have millionaire parents or pretend to be French and be very exotic or pretend to be deaf,  she told the Times.  I couldn't see the point of spending every day just being me. 

In a 2016 interview, she said that she had  always been odd  and that she ran away from home for a day to get herself an agent when she was 13.

She played daughter Jenny Porter on the first two seasons (1991-92) of the family comedy 2point4 Children - Clare Buckfield took on the role for the show's final six seasons - then starred in the romantic comedy feature Au Pair (1994).

An Awfully Big Adventure premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section at Cannes, and reviewer Janet Maslin in the Times wrote that the film  belongs to Miss Cates. She shows an edge of savvy calculation that's an integral part of the sweet young thing she plays. 

Cates then moved to Los Angeles, and she first met Ulrich at an Oscar party. They dated for about a year before getting married on their farm in Madison County, Virginia.

Georgina Cates with Vince Vaughn in 1998's Clay Pigeons. Courtesy Everett Collection

In 1998, Cates played an actress in Illuminata, the romantic comedy that was written and directed by John Turturro and set in a turn-of-the-century New York theater company, and appeared with her husband and Kiefer Sutherland in the Showtime telefilm A Soldier's Sweetheart, shot in New Zealand.

Her résumé also included Michael Lindsay-Hogg's Frankie Starlight (1995), Big City Blues (1997), Stiff Upper Lips (1997), Sinner (2007), Jackass: Bad Grandpa (2013) and, for her last onscreen credit, Everlasting (2016). More recently, she worked as a photographer.

 I always want to do something different, I don't want to play the same role, I'm just not built that way,  she said.  There are some actors that do that really well every week on TV shows … I'd just get bored.