Primarily a stage and television actress, Kate Burton has managed to forge a career without constant comparisons to her late father, Richard Burton. She is perhaps best known to small screen viewers as Henry Winkler's liberal wife on the ill-fated sitcom "Monty" (Fox, 1994) and, more recently, as a district attorney in a recurring role on the ABC series "The Practice" (1997).

Born in Switzerland on Sept. 10, 1957, but raised in Manhattan after her parents' famous divorce, Burton has retained her British citizenship, yet considers herself an American actress, having spent most of her life in the