Kathy Smee

Katherine Smee is a puppeteer working on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

As a puppeteer for the Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Smee began working in 1998 movie Lost in Space. There, she was to manage alien pet Blawp, alongside with other puppeteers such as David Alan Barclay, Wim Booth, Patrick Comerford, Sue Dacre, Peter Hurst, Gillie Robic and Michelan Sisti.

Probably impressed by her work, star puppeteer Frank Oz called her to be one of his assistants in his new work for Star Wars: Oz must play again charismatic Master Yoda for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and he needed two additional puppeteers. Alongside with more experienced Don Austen and David Greenaway, Smee was selected for this job.

After this job, Smee became a voice actress for the TV series You Do Too on 2002, and became a puppeteer again for 2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Her further career is yet to come.