Biography
Katherine Boyer Waterston (born March 3, 1980) is a British-American actress and daughter of veteran actor Sam Waterston. She made her feature film debut in Michael Clayton (2007). She had supporting roles in films including Robot & Frank, Being Flynn (both 2012) and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013), before her breakthrough performance in Inherent Vice (2014). She portrayed Chrisann Brennan in Steve Jobs (2015), and went on to star in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and i...
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Complete Filmography

Fear Street: Prom Queen
2025
as Nancy Falconer
Who will be voted queen at Shadyside High's 1988 prom? For underdog Lori, competition is cutthroat even before someone starts killing off the candidat...

Park Avenue
2025
as Charlotte
Paralyzed by her life wrangling cattle in Alberta, Canada, Charlotte jumps into her Ford Bronco, flees her over-controlling husband, and lands back in...

Afraid
2024
as Meredith
Curtis Pike and his family are selected to test a new home device: a digital assistant called AIA. AIA observes the family's behaviors and begins to a...

Asphalt City
2024
as Nancy
A young paramedic is paired with a seasoned partner on the night shift in New York revealing a city in crisis. Discovering the chaos firsthand, he is ...

The End We Start From
2023
as O
As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in searc...

Run
2023
Directly responding to a period of cultural ambivalence and uncertainties, "Run" urgently examines the collective will to exist and explores the oppor...

Babylon
2022
as Estelle
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity dur...

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
2022
as Porpentina 'Tina' Goldstein
Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him a...

House Comes with a Bird
2022
as Ruth
It’s quintessentially late afternoon Californian sun. The eponymous house gently hosts a number of clipped social encounters. Each of these denotes dy...

The World to Come
2021
as Abigail
In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.

The Third Day: Autumn
2020
as Jess
The Third Day: Autumn invites viewers deeper into the suspenseful world of The Third Day. Featuring members of The Third Day cast including Jude Law, ...

Amundsen
2019
as Bess Magids
The story of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911, and the first person to reach both...

State Like Sleep
2019
as Katherine
Following the death of her husband, Katherine travels to Brussels, where a few loose ends become a whole web of secrets as she untangles her late spou...

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2018
as Tina Goldstein
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only o...

mid90s
2018
as Dabney
In 1990s Los Angeles, a 13-year-old spends his summer navigating between a troubled home life and a crew of new friends he meets at a skate shop.

The Current War
2018
as Marguerite Westinghouse
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

Logan Lucky
2017
as Sylvia Harrison
Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at th...

Alien: Covenant - Epilogue: Advent
2017
as Daniels
Advent is a sequel to Alien: Covenant in which David sends a transmission from the Covenant to Weyland-Yutani on Earth, elaborating upon the genetic e...

Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos
2017
as Daniels
A darkly twisted psychological drama, ‘Phobos’ is a short film set before the events of ‘Alien: Covenant’. The film follows the crew of the ill-fated ...

Alien: Covenant
2017
as Daniels
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but ...

Alien: Covenant - She Won't Go Quietly
2017
as Daniels
Daniels teams up with MUTHUR, the Covenant’s onboard AI, to take out a hostile alien threat.

Alien: Covenant - Crew Messages
2017
as Daniels
Before entering hypersleep aboard the USCSS Covenant, several members of the crew record final messages for their loved ones at home. Daniels tells he...

Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper
2017
as Daniels
The official prologue to Alien: Covenant introduces the crew of the mission as they gather for a final meal before entering cryosleep. Set aboard the...

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016
as Porpentina 'Tina' Goldstein
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of ...

Steve Jobs
2015
as Chrisann Brennan
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital...

Manhattan Romance
2015
as Carla
Danny, a commercial editor and documentary filmmaker attempts to finish his film, a study on relationship while navigating the relationships in his ow...

Outlaws
2015
as Trapeze Artist
A surreal film within a film about a mysterious drifter and motorcycle stuntman who is hunted by a maniacal Director seeking revenge.

Chryskylodon Blues
2015
as Self
On the set of Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice.

Sleeping with Other People
2015
as Emma
Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later...

And It Was Good
2015
Producer
A couple reunites after a long separation to find themselves in a world that seems designed for their enjoyment and comfort. They immediately get marr...

Queen of Earth
2015
as Virginia Lowell
Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have b...

Inherent Vice
2014
as Shasta Fay Hepworth
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014
as Charlie
Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may ...

You Must Be Joking
2014
as Lisa
A New Yorker working as a paralegal searches for a new lease on life before a childhood friend inspires her to take up comedy.

Night Moves
2014
as Anne
The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric d...

Glass Chin
2014
as Patricia Petals O'Neal
After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlf...

Take Care
2014
Thanks
When a car crash leaves Frannie immobilized, she is brushed off by everyone she can count on. With nowhere else to turn and desperate for help, she tu...

Almost in Love
2013
as Lulu
A love triangle shot in two continuous 45-minute takes set eighteen months apart: the first over a sunset, the second a sunrise.

The Factory
2012
as Lauren
An obsessed cop is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. but when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any profes...

Ástarsaga
2012
as Solange
A story of love, madness, and 24-hour daylight. Solange's boyfriend Baldur mysteriously takes off for Iceland. She follows, but an even deeper mystery...

The Letter
2012
as Julie
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is ...

Robot & Frank
2012
as Shopgirl
Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. ...

Being Flynn
2012
as Sarah
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick w...

Enter Nowhere
2011
as Samantha
Three strangers arrive one by one to a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere after enduring separate life-altering predicaments. Searching for a w...

Eat
2011
as Claire
After locking herself out of her apartment, a young woman finds herself in the company of a strange and frightening neighbor.

Taking Woodstock
2009
as Penny
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happe...

Good Dick
2008
as Katherine
A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, a frequent visitor to the pornography section of C...

The Babysitters
2008
as Shirley Lyner
Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael, a father Shirley works f...

Michael Clayton
2007
as Third Year
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty ...

Orchids
2006
as Beatrice
A young photographer interviews for a caretaker job with a recluse and stumbles upon love.

The Invisible Dog
2005
as Girl at Pound
Henry really wants a dog. Because of Mom’s allergies, they can’t get one, so Dad brings home an “invisible dog” (an empty cage).
Floodplain
N/A
A man who must return to his hometown to help prevent catastrophic flood and confront the mistakes from his past.
Fackham Hall
N/A
A new porter who embarks on an unlikely relationship with the youngest daughter of a prominent UK family. At the same time, rivalries are spilling ove...
Fluidic
N/A
as Tell
An elliptical tale of three couples who are magnetically drawn together. Love becomes electric as they struggle to connect, disconnect, or reconnect w...
Angels in the Asylum
N/A
as Mary
In early 1900s Surrey, fifty women labeled as typhoid carriers face unjust confinement at Long Grove Asylum. Isolated and stigmatized, they endure har...