Kathryn Prescott

About

Kathryn Prescott (born 4 June 1991) is an English actress, best known for her role as Emily Fitch in the UK teen drama series Skins. She also played the titular character in the MTV teen drama Finding Carter (2014–2015).

Prescott was born in Palmers Green, London. She is six minutes older than her twin sister, Megan, and also has a younger brother, Ben Prescott.

Prescott made her professional acting debut alongside sister Megan in the episode of soap opera Doctors, “Dare, Double Dare, Truth”. From 2009–2010, Prescott played Emily Fitch in series three and four of British teen drama Skins, returning for the two-part special Skins: Fire as part of the show’s seventh and final series in 2013.
In 2014, she played the title character on the MTV drama series Finding Carter, about a kidnapped child who is reunited with her parents over a decade later. Despite critical acclaim, it was cancelled after its second season. Prescott later appeared in the Netflix films To the Bone (2017) and Dude (2018). In 2019, she appeared in A Dog’s Journey as CJ and had the lead role of Bird, a high school outcast who is unknowingly gifted a haunted camera, in the supernatural horror…