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Born October 4, 1979, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland is an Irish model, television and film actress.

Gruvemuvestart grew up in the village of Tedavnet, near Monahan, and until the age of 17 never left Ireland.

Has participated in the performances of a youth theater group since the age of seven or eight. In 1997 she entered the Conservatory of Dublin Institute of Technology for an acting course.

In 1998, an agent for Irish modeling agency Asset spotted 19-year-old Katrina at a supermarket in a Dublin mall when she and her college friends were packing free groceries during the Easter holidays as part of a fundraiser for a fund to fight multiple sclerosis and offered her a job as a model. ... After working as a model in Dublin for about a year, she accepted an invitation from the Ford Models agency and in the summer of 1999 moved to Paris, quitting her studies and, in case of failure, intending to return to her in a year. Her first work in Paris was a prestigious show to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fashion house Kenzo and a one-year contract with Calvin Klein.

A year later, Katrina decided that a modeling career was not for her, took a break and rested for six months, snowboarding. Returning to work, she spent the next two years between Paris, London and Milan.

In late 2002, she participated in the eighth annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in New York as a guest model, becoming the first Irish model ever to work on the Victoria's Secret runway.

In 2003 she moved to New York at the invitation of Elite agency.

During her modeling career, she has participated in fashion shows of a number of famous brands: twelve Dolce & Gabbana shows, eight Chanel shows, seven each Marc Jacobs, Narciso Rodriguez and Moschino, six Etro, five each Armani, Roberto Cavalli, Max Mara, Ann Demeulemeester and Louis Vuitton, four each - Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta, Missoni, Bottega Veneta, Burberry, Alberta Ferretti, Alexander McQueen and Emanuel Ungaro and three shows each by Rochas, Christian Lacroix, Laura Biagiotti, Cacharel, BCBG Ryk Maxiel Azria, Sonia and Kenzo; starred for advertising companies Calvin Klein, Levi's, Max Mara, Oscar de la Renta, Bally, Dolce & Gabbana, Moschino, Costume National, Bottega Veneta, Hush Puppies, BCBG Max Azria, Blumarine, Dries Van Noten, Wella, Roberto Cavalli, Victoria's Secret and H&M; her photographs have featured on the covers of regional editions of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Elle magazines.

At the end of 2007 she took to the podium for the last time.

The first appearance on the screen took place while modeling in the film about the world of fashion "The Devil Wears Prada" (2006) with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway and in the documentary diary of model Sarah Ziff about the modeling business "Take Me: A Model's Diary" (2009) , the material for which was filmed for five years.

Modeling has never been Katrina's passion, and this job has always seemed temporary to her. After completing a successful career in the fashion world, ten years later she decided to return to her dream of becoming an actress, although she seemed too old for an aspiring starlet by Hollywood standards.

In 2008 she began taking acting lessons, and in 2009 she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actress, where she studied exclusively for more than a year, first at the Warner Locklin studio, and then at the Sanford Meisner Center and Judith Weston Studios.

After six months of unsuccessful auditions, she landed a cameo role without words, playing the main character's mother in JJ Abrams's high-budget fantasy film Super 8 (2011). A year later, she got another role without words in "The Illusion of Deception" (2012), where she appeared on the screen along with Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Woody Harrelson.

In 2012 she also took part in two digital projects: the Google H + web series, produced by Brian Singer, and the Toshiba and Intel project, the Beauty Inside web series, which won three Cyber ??Lion Grand Prix awards. , Film Lions and Branded Content and Entertainment Lions at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. In "H +" she played the head of a corporation that makes transplant computers, and in "Beauty Within" - one of 59 incarnations of the main character Alex, who wakes up a new person every day.

In The Escape Plan (2013) by Michael Hofstrom, she first speaks on the big screen as a mysterious CIA agent who sends an escape specialist (Sylvester Stallone) to a secret prison where the guard of a notorious fraudster (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is imprisoned.

In September 2013, less than a month before the start of filming, she was approved for the lead role in the television adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's popular novels, published with a total circulation of 20 million copies, and immediately became the object of interest of the press and numerous fans of the books. The premiere of the television series garnered the highest viewership ratings among new television series in the entire history of the Starz TV channel. Both the show and Balfe's game received positive reviews from critics. Rolling Stone named her in the 25 Sexiest People of 2014, Entertainment Weekly named her 12 Star Breakthroughs of 2014, BBC America named her Favorite British Actress of 2014, and TV Guide named Katrina and her partner Sam Heughan as Best Couple of 2014. In 2015, the series received a Saturn Award for Best Television Actress and a nomination for an Irish Film and Television Academy Award for Best Frontline Dramatic Actress.


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