Meredith Garretson is an American actress. She is known for her role as Kate Hawthorne in the SyFy/USA Network TV series Resident Alien (2021-2025).
Raised in Alexandria, Virginia, Garretson attended James Madison University, where she studied photojournalism in addition to taking pre-med, anthropology and Spanish classes before she began focusing on becoming an actress. After graduating, she relocated to New York City, where she studied the Meisner technique at Maggie Flanigan Studio. She graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in 2017.
Garretson would take on guest roles in episodes of The Good Fight, Fosse/Verdon and Prodigal Son before beginning a recurring role in the Syfy series Resident Alien. In July 2021, Garretson was cast to portray Ali MacGraw in the Paramount+ miniseries The Offer. In 2022, she guest starred in Stargirl.
In theatre, Garretson is a co-founder of Society Theatre. Garretson resides in Brooklyn. She is a vegan.