Katherine Waterston facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Katherine Waterston
Waterston at the Japan premiere of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in 2016
Born	Katherine Boyer Waterston (1980-03-03) March 3, 1980 (age 44) Westminster, London, England
Citizenship	United Kingdom United States
Alma mater	New York University
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2003-present
Children	1
Parent(s)	Sam Waterston (father)
Relatives	James Waterston (paternal half-brother)

Katherine Boyer Waterston (born March 3, 1980) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut in Michael Clayton (2007). She had supporting roles in films including Robot & Frank, Being Flynn (both 2012) and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013), before her breakthrough performance in Inherent Vice (2014). She portrayed Chrisann Brennan in Steve Jobs (2015), and went on to star as Tina Goldstein in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and its sequels. Her other film roles were in Alien: Covenant (2017), Logan Lucky (2017), The Current War (2017), Mid90s (2018) and The World to Come (2020).

Early life

Katherine Boyer Waterston was born March 3, 1980, in Westminster, London, the daughter of American parents, Lynn Louisa (née Woodruff), a former model, and actor Sam Waterston. She holds dual citizenship. Her father is of English and Scottish descent. Her sister is actress Elisabeth Waterston and her brother is director Graham Waterston. She has an older half-brother, James Waterston, also an actor.

She was raised in Connecticut, and graduated from the Loomis Chaffee School in 1998.

Career

Waterston's first starring role on film was in the 2007 independent drama The Babysitters, alongside John Leguizamo and Cynthia Nixon. Also in 2007, Waterston performed in the play Los Angeles by Julian Sheppard. The following year, she acted in Kindness, a play by Adam Rapp. In 2010, Waterston played Gena in the original Off-Broadway production of Leslye Headland's Bachelorette, the role played by Lizzy Caplan in the 2011 film version. In 2011, she played Anya in the Classic Stage Company revival of The Cherry Orchard. Also in 2011, she performed in Rapp's Dreams of Flying, Dreams of Falling at the Classic Stage Company.

Waterston at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con

After supporting roles in films including Enter Nowhere (2011), Being Flynn (2012), The Letter (2012) and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013), Waterston was cast in the 2015 crime film Inherent Vice, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film and her performance received generally positive reviews from critics. The following year, she appeared in Queen of Earth and played Chrisann Brennan in director Danny Boyle's biographical drama Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender.

In 2016, Waterston was cast as Tina Goldstein in the fantasy film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opposite Eddie Redmayne. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and became a commercial success, grossing $814 million worldwide. Waterston reprised her role in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald in 2018, and had a short part in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022). In 2017, she starred alongside Fassbender for director Ridley Scott in the science fiction horror film Alien: Covenant. That year she also starred in Steven Soderbergh's comedy-drama Logan Lucky and Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's historical drama The Current War. Waterston's next starring roles were in the independent films State Like Sleep (2018), Mid90s (2018), Amundsen (2019) and The World to Come (2020). In 2020, she starred in the British-American horror drama series The Third Day alongside Jude Law. In 2022, she joined the cast of the second season of HBO period drama series Perry Mason.

Personal life

Waterston was in a six-year relationship with American playwright and director Adam Rapp. His 2011 three-play collection The Hallway Trilogy is dedicated to her; she appeared as Rose Hathaway in Part 1: Rose in its premiere at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.

In November 2018, Waterston confirmed that she was expecting her first child. Her son was born in 2019.

Waterston is a supporter of transgender rights. She has cited her participation in the Fantastic Beasts franchise as a reason for her being so vocal, and has publicly denounced transphobic statements by series creator J.K. Rowling.

Filmography

Key

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Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Michael Clayton	Third Year
	The Babysitters	Shirley Lyner
2008	Good Dick	Katherine
2009	Taking Woodstock	Penny
2011	Almost in Love	Lulu
	Enter Nowhere	Samantha
2012	Robot & Frank	Shopgirl
	Being Flynn	Sarah
	The Letter	Julie
	The Factory	Lauren
2013	Night Moves	Anne
	The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her	Charlie
2014	Are You Joking?	Lisa
	Inherent Vice	Shasta Fay Hepworth
	Glass Chin	Patricia Petals O'Neal
2015	Sleeping with Other People	Emma
	Queen of Earth	Virginia
	Steve Jobs	Chrisann Brennan
	Manhattan Romance	Carla
2016	Fluidic	Tell
	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	Tina Goldstein
2017	Alien: Covenant	Janet "Danny" Daniels
	Logan Lucky	Sylvia Harrison
	The Current War	Marguerite Westinghouse
2018	State Like Sleep	Katherine Grand
	Mid90s	Dabney
	Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald	Tina Goldstein
2019	Amundsen	Bess Magids
2020	The World to Come	Abigail
2022	Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore	Tina Goldstein	Cameo appearance
	Babylon	Estelle
2023	Asphalt City	Nancy
	The End We Start From	O
2024	Afraid	Meredith Pike
2025	Fear Street: Prom Queen	TBA	Post-production
TBA	Park Avenue	Charlotte	Post-production
	Fackham Hall	Lady Davenport	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012–2013	Boardwalk Empire	Emma Harrow	5 episodes
2020	The Third Day	Jess	Miniseries, 5 episodes
2023	Perry Mason	Ginny Ames	Main role (season 2), 6 episodes
	Slow Horses	Alison Dunn	Recurring (season 3)
2024	The Franchise	Quinn Walker	Episode: "Scene 54: The Lilac Ghost"
2025	The Agency	Naomi	In production

Shorts

Video games

Stage

Awards and nominations

Waterston at the 2015 Independent Spirit Awards

See also

In Spanish: Katherine Waterston para niños