“I’ve never looked at acting like a job,” she insists. She still talks about the craft in the adoring terms of a wide-eyed rookie. “The people I’ve met from being on that show-I think those interactions have changed my life.”Īctors who’ve grown up in the industry can sometimes be jaded by the long hours and lack of normalcy, but the profession has lost none of its luster for Newton. “ Supernatural fans are amazing,” she gushes. Suddenly, Newton was landing guest spots on popular dramas like Supernatural and Mad Men and, for the first time in her life, getting recognized in public. Her character, Alex, was a juicy “final girl” type of party, cut from the same cloth as Halloween’s Laurie Strode and Scream’s Sidney Prescott. Newton’s big break came with the lead role in Paranormal Activity 4, the fourth installment of the popular found-footage horror franchise. They had candy everywhere, and I remember the cameras looked like giant robots you could swing on, like something in a playground. “I just dressed up like a princess every day. “I have the most amazing pictures of my outfits,” she recalls. I'd go to see Gypsy every night, and I totally made best friends with her,” Newton says of the legendary actress, deadpan. Eventually, Newton booked a role as the resident cute kid on the CBS sitcom Gary Unmarried, and even though she spent much of her youth working, it never felt that way to her. Around that time, she remembers waiting nightly at the side door of the Shubert Theater, where Bernadette Peters would greet fans after her starring performance in the Broadway revival of Gypsy. Miami-born Newton began her career in New York City when she was four years old, after booking a role on the ageless soap opera All My Children. I felt like I was the luckiest actor in the world to be on two great projects in one day, like, boom-boom." “Two were in Atlanta, so I'd work in the morning on one and in the afternoon on another. It’s a year that many actors her age would kill for. "The past six months, I did three projects at the same time,” she says. And this month alone, she’ll show up on the big screen as Frances McDormand's daughter in the furious black comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and as a classmate to the title character in Greta Gerwig’s nostalgic bildungsroman Lady Bird. In 2017 alone, Newton has made small-screen appearances as Reese Witherspoon’s daughter Abigail on HBO’s bougie melodrama Big Little Lies, and as another independent spirit (and daughter) on the final season of AMC’s critically acclaimed but criminally underwatched drama Halt and Catch Fire. “They were like, ‘Who’s Kathryn Newton? Does she even go here?’” Today, it’s likely that Newton’s former classmates have a pretty good idea of who she is. “I ran for president every year, but nobody knew who I was because I missed so much of it,” she says. But despite a regular education, the brutal schedules and irregular hours of show business made Newton something of an absentee student. “I’ve gone to real school my whole life,” says the now-20-year-old actor. Newton started her acting career at the age of 4 and is also an avid golfer.Most actors who begin their careers at the age of four find themselves, at some point, getting homeschooled. Previous credits for Newton include CW's Supernatural, AMC's Mad Men, AMC's Halt and Catch Fire, CBS's Bad Teacher, Gary Unmarried and Paramount's Paranormal Activity 4. She has also worked with Jean-Marc Vallee and Andrea Arnold in Big Little Lies in which she played Reese Witherspoon's daughter. She has worked with Martin McDonagh in the critically acclaimed film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Peter Hedges in Ben is Back and Greta Gerwig in Lady Bird. She can be seen in Netflix's The Society and Blockers for Universal, which was the highest earning R-rated comedy of 2018. Previously, Kathryn has starred opposite Ryan Reynolds and Justice Smith in Pokemon Detective Pikachu for Legendary. In the fall of 2020, Kathryn starred opposite Vince Vaughn in Universal's highly anticipated horror-comedy Freaky, in which she starred as a high schooler who switches bodies with the local serial killer, played by Vaughn. She can be seen as the lead of Amazon's The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, on Prime Video. Kathryn co-starred as Cassie Lang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2023, followed by Lisa Frankenstein starring alongside Cole Sprouse and Winner starring Emilia Jones, with release dates sometime in 2023.
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