Kirsty Strain

Kirsty Strain is a Scottish actress known for Burnistoun and for playing Angie Warren in River City. After studying at Langside College and then in New York in 2005 at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, she performed in stage productions in New York for three years. Her early theater work with the Scottish Youth Theatre included Sleeping Beauty at the Tron Theatre and a 2002 production of Illyria. Her first television performance was the short Rice, Paper, Stars for the BBC's Tartan Shorts in 2000, and she later played Lisa Corrie in a 2009 episode of Taggart. Strain was in the principal cast of Burnistoun, filming three consecutive series, and was a regular in River City. She also appeared in the BBC drama One of Us and an episode of Outlander. On film, she worked on Anna and the Apocalypse (2018), had a central role in And Violet (2017), and appeared in Up There.