Caitríona Mary Balfe (born 4 October 1979) is an Irish actress and model. She is best known for her starring role as Claire Fraser in the Starz historical drama series Outlander (2014–present), for which she received nominations for four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama. At age eighteen, while studying drama at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Balfe began working as a fashion model in Paris. Ten years later, she refocused on acting. She had leading roles in the series The Beauty Inside (2012) and H+: The Digital Series (2012–2013), and appeared in the films Super 8 (2011), Now You See Me (2013), Escape Plan (2013), Money Monster (2016), and ()