Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Katharine Kramer, Actress, Producer, Activist, and Daughter of Stanley Kramer.
Katharine “Kat” Kramer is a member of Hollywood royalty, and a multi-award winning actress, singer, journalist, producer and humanitarian who is most definitely following in the groundbreaking footsteps of her father, the legendary director and producer, Stanley Kramer, because she’s having a stellar career that exemplifies what it means to make a significant difference in the world.
Her film credits include “Going Shopping”, “Hollywood Dreams”, “What Just Happened?”, “Little Fockers”, “Turnover”, for which she won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Love International Film Festival, “Fate’s Shadow: The Whole Story”, for which she was named “Best Supporting Actress” at the Actors and Directors International Film Festival, “Rings of the Unpromised”, for which she won 5 prestigious film festival awards – 4 for Best Supporting Actress and one for Best Ensemble, and the multi-award winning “Mother’s Day Memories”, which won 4 distinguished film festival awards.
On television, you’ve seen her in many shows including “Child of the 70s”, “Larry King Live”, “Actors Entertainment”, “Meet the Biz”, and “Call me Kate”, the wonderful Netflix documentary about her godmother and namesake, the legendary Katharine Hepburn. On the stage, our guest has starred in 4 popular one-woman-shows, and she won awards for her roles as Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker” and Anne Frank in “The Diary Of Anne Frank”, as well as starring in “David And Lisa”, “Great Expectations”, “The Lark” and “The Vagina Monologues”.
Katharine Kramer is also a very gifted singer, and has recorded a wonderful album called “Gemstone”, featuring songs by Mick Jagger.
In 2009, Katharine founded a Cinema Series called “Kat Kramer’s Films That Change the World”, showcasing movies that raise awareness about highly relevant and thought-provoking social issues like women’s equality, animal welfare, bullying, school violence and much more. Our guest has received many honors including the Compassion Award from the Braveheart Women, and a Golden Spirit Award from the Atomic Age Cinema Fest.
In 2015 she established the Hunt For Humanity Award in honor of actress and activist Marsha Hunt, which is given to an actor or filmmaker who uses their voice for social change. She’s a founding board member of the Palm Springs International Comedy Festival, and she serves on the advisory boards of the LA Press Club and the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival. And if all of that weren’t enough, I can’t resist mentioning that in 1990, our Kat Kramer was Miss Golden Globe.
Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also the bestselling author of “Tug of War: A Judge’s Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles and the Bitter Realities of Family Court” and hosted “Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone,” a television talk show on matters involving the family justice system.
After a distinguished legal career, Harvey was appointed a judge at the age of 38 in 1995. He has presided in family and criminal courts. He has been a trailblazer in several ways. He was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He was the first sitting judge in the world to write a national best seller and to host a TV talk show.
Harvey has been a role model and icon in the LGBTQ community. When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2003, he was the only judge to make himself publicly available to officiate at weddings for lesbian and gay couples travelling to Toronto from all over the world to get married. In 2007, he officiated at the wedding of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the American couple whose marriage triggered the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision overturning the definition of “spouse” in the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
In February 2021, Harvey launched his online talk show “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” on his own YouTube channel. He saw this as an interesting hobby. Within several months, the show attracted hundreds of thousands – and then eventually, millions – of viewers. Because of the overwhelming success of the show, Harvey decided to retire from the judiciary on December 31, 2021 after having presided as a full-time judge for 26 1/2 years. Free from the constraints imposed upon judges regarding the expression of opinions and the endorsement of private enterprise, Harvey now happily devotes his full-time attention to hosting “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” as a regular member of the public – albeit one with a rather illustrious and unique career history.
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