BELFAST actor Caitríona Balfe is set to co-star with Rami Malek in AMATEUR. The story follows a CIA cryptographer who, after his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, demands his bosses go after them. Balfe’s role wasn’t disclosed, nor was a filming schedule, so it’ll be a while before we see it. Meanwhile, her hit series on the Starz network OUTLANDER premieres its seventh season on Friday, June 16.
On Outlander, Caitríona Balfe has spent five seasons dubbed “Sassenach,” a Scottish Gaelic word for an English person or outsider — but in BELFAST, she’s anything but one: the Irish actress, 42, portrays a version of writer-director Kenneth Branagh’s mother. Known simply as Ma and seen through the eyes of her 9-year-old son, Buddy (Jude Hill), she is struggling to raise and protect her two children in 1960s Belfast when the nationalist fighting known as the Troubles erupts, plunging their family and way of life into uncertainty.