'The depth, scope, range and sheer electricity of Katrin's acting was phenomenal. Had she continued, she would most certainly have become, over the next 40 years or so, one of the true greats. Her tastes and sensibilities were both classical and yet alert to the contemporary pulse. And her acting was always informed by her compassion, her courage, her humility, her gravity, her humour, her sexuality, her sense of justice, her acute observation, and her deep-seated suspicion of all forms of woolly thinking and received ideas. '

Excerpt from We Have Lost a Great Actor, director Mike Leigh's tribute to the actress Katrin Cartlidge, who, as previously reported on Parallax View, died suddenly last weekend at the age of 41.