Katherine Waterston
Katherine Waterston
Katherine Boyer Waterston is an English-born American actress. Waterston made her feature film debut in Michael Clayton. She then had supporting roles in films including Robot & Frank, Being Flynnand The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Herbefore her leading role as Shasta Fay Hepworth in Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice. In 2015, she portrayed Chrisann Brennan in Steve Jobs. She will star in the 2016 film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's book, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Waterston will also...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth3 March 1980
I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn't feel that pressure to fill some big shoes or anything.
I don't like to talk about things unless I have to. I don't like to talk a scene to death or overanalyze it, especially if I feel like I have some way in on my own.
I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.
I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.
I didn't find it difficult to live in the 'Inherent Vice' world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.
I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.
When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.
When you come from a family of actors, people in show business, they really know to celebrate good news and to celebrate it hard because it's not every day that you get it.