1. Kirsty Strain is a Scottish actress, best known for her roles in the popular comedy sketch series, Burnistoun, and as Angie Warren in the BBC Scotland television series, River City.
13 Facts About Kirsty Strain
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Kirsty Strain was more recently be seen in Outlander and the feature films, And Violet and Anna and the Apocalypse.
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Kirsty Strain attended Bannerman High School in Glasgow before enrolling at Langside College in the same city to study acting and performance.
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Kirsty Strain later went on to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York in 2005, training under Paul Calderon where fellow alumni in her year included Margherita Missoni and Norwegian actress Sofie Cappelen.
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Kirsty Strain remained in New York for three years, during which time she performed at the school's Marilyn Monroe Theatre and at the Independent Theatre in downtown New York.
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Kirsty Strain performed in their 2002 production of Illyria at the Macrobert Arts Centre.
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Kirsty Strain's career began when she went on to work with the Scottish Youth Theatre's patrons, Blythe Duff and Colin McCredie in Taggart for STV in the role of Lisa Corrie in the programme's 99th episode, "So Long Baby" in 2009.
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Kirsty Strain appeared in the comedy sketch series Burnistoun for which she is a member of the principal cast, produced by The Comedy Unit.
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Kirsty Strain has filmed three consecutive series, the third of which was televised in August 2012.
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Kirsty Strain was a regular in the BBC One Scotland television series River City, in the recurring role of Angie Warren.
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Kirsty Strain had a role in the BBC One drama, One of Us, and she most recently appeared in an episode of Outlander, which was televised in October 2017.
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Kirsty Strain worked on the feature film Anna and the Apocalypse, and appeared in a central role for the feature film And Violet, in 2017.
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Kirsty Strain is a campaigner for ME awareness and supports the charities TYMES Trust and Share A Star.