Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 425th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

reporters awards podcast, I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is an Irish actress

who has won widespread acclaim and popularity for her work on screens big and small.

She is best known for playing Claire Randall, a World War II air nurse who manages to travel

back in time to 1743 Scotland on the stars fantasy series Outlander, which debuted in 2014,

the sixth season of which will premiere on March 6th, and for which she has received four

Golden Globe Award nominations so far.

But lately, her industry profile has exploded thanks to her deeply affecting portrait of

the matriarch of an Irish family caught in the middle of the troubles in Kenneth Branagh's

2021 film Belfast, for which she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe

Award, is nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Critics Choice and Saga Awards, and

is widely expected to be nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, Katrina

Belf.

Over the course of our conversation, the 42-year-old and I discuss how her acting ambitions

were sidelined for several years when she became one of the first Irish supermodels and

what led her to later revisit them, how she landed her part opposite Sam Huyin on Outlander

and what she makes of the rabid fanbase of the show and the series of books by Diana Gabaldon,

which inspired it, what it was like to essentially play Branagh's own mother in Belfast and why

she thinks the film, which unfolds through the eyes of a young boy modeled on the filmmaker

in his youth, has proven to be so moving to so many, plus much more.

And so, without further ado, let's go to that conversation.

Katrina, thank you so much for doing the podcast, great to have you, and on this one, we always

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