A June Instagram Post, an October Report: Georgina Cates Was 51

Georgina Cates, the British actress whose career began on the TV series “2point4 Children” in 1991, playing Jenny Porter, has died at 51. Variety reports that her death was announced by her daughter, Naiia, on Instagram in June, and that it had not been reported until now — a four-month stretch when the news existed publicly and simply hadn't travelled to the press that would normally carry it. She is survived by her two children, Naiia and Jakob, the twins from her marriage to Skeet Ulrich. Born in Colchester, England, in 1975, she later moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting, and the credits run from an early-1990s television apprenticeship into feature work: “An Awfully Big Adventure” in 1995 opposite Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman, “Clay Pigeons” in 1998 with Joaquin Phoenix and Vince Vaughn, and later appearances in “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” and “Everlasting.” The sharpest portrait of her comes from her daughter's tribute, which describes a free-spirited mother who lived a hard life and still found ways to make herself and others laugh and smile, and lists what she sees instead of a filmography: black-and-white photos, baggy clothes, big sunglasses, doodling while talking, flip-flops.