Lauren Lyle

Lauren Lyle (born 12 July) is a Scottish actress best known for her recurring role as Marsali MacKimmie Fraser in the Starz television drama Outlander, and peace protester Jade Antoniak in the BBC drama Vigil. Lyle plays the leading role of Detective Sergeant Karen Pirie in ITV's new crime thriller Karen Pirie released October 2022 on BritBox. Lyle was born in Glasgow, Scotland. After performing at the Edinburgh Fringe for Fourth Monkey, and on stage in London in The Crucible, she was accepted to the National Youth Theatre's rep program in 2015. The highly competitive program accepts approximately fifteen or sixteen actors under the age of twenty-five who work towards a series of plays performed on London's West End in the autumn of that year. Lyle’s first professional role was in 2014 when she starred in the critically acclaimed show The Crucible directed by Yael Farber at the Old Vic Theatre on the West End. Soon after she was cast in an episode of BBC comedy "Radges".