Kathryn Prescott (born 4 June 1991) is an English actress, best known for her role as Emily Fitch in the UK teen drama series Skins. She also played the titular character in the MTV teen drama Finding Carter (2014âÂÂ2015).
Prescott was born in Palmers Green, London. She is six minutes older than her twin sister, Megan, and also has a younger brother, Ben Prescott.
Prescott made her professional acting debut alongside sister Megan in the episode of soap opera Doctors, "Dare, Double Dare, Truth". From 2009 - 2010, Prescott played Emily Fitch in series three and four of British teen drama Skins, returning for the two-part special ' as part of the show's seventh and final series in 2013.
From 2014 - 2015, Prescott starred as Carter Stevens/Lyndon Wilson on MTV'S Finding Carter, a series about a kidnapped child who is reunited with her parents over a decade later. Prescott later appeared in the Netflix films To the Bone (2017) as a teenager recovering from an eating disorder, and Dude (2018) as Chloe. In 2019, she appeared in A Dog's Journey as CJ and, that same year, she starred in teen horror flick Polaroid as Bird Fitcher, a high school outcast who is gifted a haunted camera. In 2022, Prescott guest-starred in the fifth series of medical drama New Amsterdam as Vanessa Bloom, a recovering drug addict.
On 7 September 2021, Prescott was run over by a cement truck while crossing the street in Brooklyn. In a November 2025 episode of the podcast Gabriella Rebranded, Prescott revealed the extent of her injuries, which included breaking her pelvis in four places; snapping her left femur in half (which dissected her femoral artery, requiring urgent surgery); and breaking her right foot, among smaller breaks and abrasions. She also detailed suffering complex post-traumatic stress disorder in the months and years following the accident. After hearing about the accident, Prescott's sister Megan was initially denied emergency entry to the United States to care for Prescott during her recovery, owing to travel restrictions put in place to combat the spread of COVID-19; the decision was ultimately reversed after Megan went public about the ordeal.