Katherine Boyer Waterston (born March 3, 1980 in Westminster, London) is a British-American actress.
The daughter of American actor Sam Waterston and British model Lynn Louisa Woodruff, she is perhaps best known for her role as the female lead Porpentina "Tina" Goldstein in the Harry Potter spinoff film trilogy Fantastic Beasts.
She starred in 2017's Alien: Covenant, the sequel to Prometheus (and prequel to Alien) as Daniels, who's widely speculated to be the mother of Ellen Ripley. Her other prominent film credits include Inherent Vice and Steve Jobs.
Her brothers and sister are also actors or directors. She gave birth to a son in 2019.
Selected filmography:
- The Babysitters (2007) as Shirley
- Michael Clayton (2007) as Third Year
- Taking Woodstock (2009) as Penny
- Robot and Frank (2012) as Shopgirl
- Boardwalk Empire (2012) as Emma Harrow
- Night Moves (2013) as Annie
- Inherent Vice (2014) as Shasta Fay Hepworth
- Steve Jobs (2015) as Chrisann Brennan
- Fantastic Beasts as Porpentina "Tina" Goldstein
- Alien: Covenant (2017) as Daniels Branson
- Logan Lucky (2017) as Sylvia Harrison
- State Like Sleep (2018) as Katherine
- The Third Day (2020) as Jess
- Perry Mason (2022) as Ginny Ames
- Babylon (2022) as Estelle
- The End We Start From (2024) as O
