Kate Girard (1860-1897) was a Tasmanian-born actress who performed on the Victorian goldfields before heading to America for a time from the late 1870s. Reports of her in Australian newspapers in the 1880s mention her performances as a member of an acrobatic troupe. She died in New York in 1897 having suffered a bout of pneumonia.
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