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Waterston in 2015, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Katherine Boyer Waterston
Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 3 March, 1980
Ethnicity: English, Scottish, possibly other
Katherine Waterston is an American actress. Her roles include the films The Babysitters , Good Dick , Taking Woodstock , Enter Nowhere , Robot & Frank , Being Flynn , The Letter , The Factory (2012), Night Moves (2013), The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her , Glass Chin , Inherent Vice , Manhattan Romance , Sleeping with Other People , Queen of Earth , Steve Jobs (2015), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , and its sequels; Alien: Covenant , Logan Lucky , The Current War , State Like Sleep , Mid90s , Amundsen , The World to Come , Babylon (2022), Asphalt City , The End We Start From , AFRAID (2024), Fear Street: Prom Queen , and Fackham Hall ; and the series Boardwalk Empire , The Third Day , Perry Mason , Slow Horses , and The Agency .
She is the daughter of Lynn Louisa Woodruff, a model, and Sam Waterston (Samuel Atkinson Waterston), an actor. She was born in Westminster, London, England, where her American parents were working at the time. Katherine was raised in Connecticut. Her siblings are actress Elisabeth Waterston and director Graham Waterston. Her half-brother, James Waterston, is also an actor. Elizabeth is married to actor Louis Cancelmi . Katherine has a son.
She is a citizen of the U.K. and the U.S.
Katherine’s paternal grandfather was George Chychele Waterston (the son of George Waterston and Ellen Louise Giles). Katherine’s grandfather George was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Katherine’s great-grandfather George was Scottish, and was the son of George Waterston and Agnes Mackie Wyse Millidge. Ellen was born in Hackney, London, England, and was the daughter of William Brantingham Giles and Louisa/Louise Rebecca Simons.
Katherine’s paternal grandmother was Alice/Alica Tucker Atkinson (the daughter of Robert Whitman Atkinson and Elizabeth Bispham Page). Alice was born in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, of English descent. Robert had deep roots in Massachusetts, and was the son of Edward Atkinson and Mary Caroline Heath. Elizabeth’s family traced many generations in New Jersey. She was the daughter of Edward Augustus Page and Josephine Augusta Bispham. Josephine’s grandfather, Ebenezer Tucker, was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey.
Sources: Genealogy of Katherine Waterston (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Genealogies of Katherine’s father – http://www.wargs.com https://famouskin.com
Immigration record of Katherine’s paternal grandfather, George Chychele Waterston – https://familysearch.org