Here, 35 shots from her BC-Before Claire-years. For all those suffering from series withdrawal, we’ve collected some of Balfe’s best runway appearances. Outlander, however, has reached its fifth season finale. The Irish edition of the Independent dubbed Balfe “officially Ireland’s first supermodel,” to which Balfe retorted: “Let’s hope it’s not on my tombstone.” Now that she’s an award-winning actress there’s no danger of that. “She was quite poised., and always grounded, and smart, and funny, and knew where she was heading.” “She’s the kind of woman that you dream of,” says the latter of Balfe, who he called muse. “If an opportunity presents itself and it seems like a good idea, I’m just like, ‘OK, let’s do it, then I’ll figure it out.’ ” And she did.įair and dark-haired with a slender frame, Balfe was opposite in type to the Brazailian ideal popular at the time (hello, Gisele Bündchen), but that worked to her advantage and she became a favorite of designers as different as Ann Demeulemeester and Valentino, Alexander McQueen and Narciso Rodriguez. “I have a great knack of not thinking about things and just going for it,” the actor told Backstage magazine in 2015. Left to navigate unfamiliar terrain, she charted it with an aplomb Claire might approve of. Soon she had shelved her books and grabbed a ticket to Paris. In 1999 Balfe, then 19, was studying drama in Dublin when she was scouted while collecting money for charity. As Claire, Balfe is engaged in what she calls “a grand metaphysical love story,” one that’s worlds away from her stint as a fashion model in the 2000s. That’s Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser, a nurse who travels back through time to the 1800s where she faces challenges with strength and ingenuity while falling into a passionate romance. Balfe then condemned The Sun for publishing “his violent racist misogynistic language.Junya Watanabe, fall 2000 ready-to-wear Photo: Condé Nast Archiveįor fans of Outlander, the historical romance TV series based on the books by Diana Gabaldon, the name Caitriona Balfe conjures a fictional character. “What some people may think are flippant remarks or try to pass off as comedy can actually have grave consequences,” she wrote of English broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson. She’s advocated for pro-choicelegislation and isn’t afraid to call out people in the news even when it offends her fanbase. Her botanical gin line Forget Me Not donates 25% of its proceeds to art programs.īalfe is also a feminist and outspoken critic of misogyny. And like her Outlander co-star Heughan, Balfe has a liquor company. They include World Child Cancer, Unicef, ChooseLove, and One Tree Planted. On top of being a mother and award-winning actress, Balfe also has personally raised money and advocated for numerous charities. It’s one of the most insightful and brave explorations of the incredibly complex and confusing journey young women who have come through the world of modelling have in relation to their body/image and the very dangerous blurred lines - Caitríona Balfe September 17, 2020 Catríona Balfe Married Longtime Boyfriend Tony McGill in 2019 Their onscreen chemistry is so realistic that many believe they’re actually married. Ever since, fans of Outlander have formed somewhat of a cultish ideology around Sam and Catríona. She and Heughan were deemed so irreplaceable that they also became co-producers for the hit show by season 5. But her biggest role to-date began in 2014 and continues to this day.Īfter Catríona was personally chosen to be Sam Heughan’s leading lady in Outlander, she’s stayed with the show for its entire 9 year and 8 season duration. Balfe was the voice of Ellie in the animated movie The Christmas Letter in 2019, Dorothy’s mother in Angela’s Christmas Wish, and played Ma in the 2021 film Belfast. She starred in The Beauty Inside and H+ and also did the voice for Tavra in The Dark Crystal Netflix series. She was steadily cast in TV and movies, beginning in 2011. The show featured musical performances by Destiny's Child, Marc Anthony. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2002 was recorded in New York, United States at the 69th Regiment Armory. A post shared by Caitríonabalfe her fears, Catríona proved she had what it took to be a star. The show features some of the world's leading fashion models, such as current Victoria's Secret Angels Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum, Gisele Bndchen, and Adriana Lima.
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