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Katherine Morgan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __DISAMBIG__ Katniss "Katherine" Holly Morgan (born 18 October, 1998) is an American-Romanian actress and singer. She moved to Beverly Hills and began her acting career with roles on television. She is best known for her starring role as Claire Fraser in the Starz historical drama series Outlander (2016–2024), for which she received nominations for three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama.

Morgan's career progressed with starring roles as Emma Swan in in the ABC adventure-fantasy series Once Upon a Time (2013–2019), Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games film series (2015–2018) and Hannah Baker in the Netflix television series 13 Reasons Why (2017–2018).

Early life
Morgan was born in Eforie Nord, Romania, and raised in Beverly Hills, California. She is the eldest daughter of Andra Morgan (née Mihai), a Romanian singer, songwriter and television personality, and Aurelian Morgan, a Romanian singer and a television personality. Her older brother, Michael Malarkey, is also an actor. She has a younger sister named Sofia.

Morgan began voice lessons with Heidi Lake in 2005, and received classical, jazz, and contemporary vocal training.

Initially during her time at high school, Morgan was interested in musical theatre. In 2014 as a teenager, she attended a Lady Gaga concert, the Born This Way Ball, which inspired her to learn to play piano.

Musical career
In 2014, Morgan achieved a hit single in the United States with a personal song, "Sad Girl", after the radio program The Beat began to promote it. The song reached number one on the chart of the USA version of the iTunes Store and was the number one song in rotation on radio. The song is also a hit in Australia, being played on high rotation on Triple J radio.

Morgan has self-released one EP Paradise, and collaborated with Madelame, the latter on a song called "Snow White and Rose Red".

Acting career
Her most notable television roles have included Hannah Baker in the drama 13 Reasons Why, Dr. Tara Knowles on the FX drama Sons of Anarchy for which she was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, an adaptation of the first book in author Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy. She also received four nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her role in Outlander.

Several critics lauded her performance as Baker; The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "Morgan's heartbreaking openness makes you root for a fate you know isn't possible. The actress' performance is full of dynamic range, setting it against Minnette's often more complicated task in differentiating between moods that mostly go from uncomfortable to gloomy to red-eyed, hygiene-starved despair." She earned various awards and nominations for the role, including a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama.

Albums

 * Born to Die (2016)


 * Cosmos (2018)

Extended Plays

 * Paradise (2016)

Relationships
Morgan met SHIFT (Gabriel Istrate) in 2016, and their relationship was highly publicized. She married SHIFT, after a year of dating, in 2017, in a lavish Malibu wedding. On November 2018, they announced their separation, and finalized their divorce on February 2, 2019.

Morgan began a relationship with Luke, Duke of Sussex in April 2021. The following May, they became engaged. They separated a month and a half later.

Public image
Prior to the release of her debut major label album Born to Die in 2016, Morgan was the subject of several articles discussing her image and career trajectory. Tony Simon, a producer who had worked with Morgan in 2016, defended her against the public claims of inauthenticity and allegations that she was a product of her record label: "To be clear, all the detractors saying she's some made-up-by-the-machine pop star are full of shit. While it's impossible to keep the businesses' hands out the pop when creating a pop star, the roots of where this all comes from are firmly inside of her." In Morgan's own words, she "[n]ever had a persona. Never needed one. Never will."

Impact
Morgan has been mentioned as an influence by a number of artists including Madelame, Lana Del Rey, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. Billboard credited Born to Die with being one of the main catalysts for pop music's shift from an overall brash EDM tone to a moodier, hip-hop-inflected palette. In 2019, Billboard included "Born to Die" amongst the 100 songs that defined 2016, adding that it marked "a sonic shift that completely changed the pop landscape".