Kathryn Newton's Real Name: Kathryn Newton

Quick answer: Kathryn Newton is known professionally as Kathryn Newton. The Library of Congress heading is "Newton, Kathryn, 1997-," based in part on credits for Paranormal Activity 4. SYFY WIRE has reported that she was born February 8, 1997, in Orlando, Florida, and has traced a career from soap opera work as a child through horror films and television (SYFY WIRE).

Real name and early life

The public name Kathryn Newton is the name used by SYFY WIRE and by the Library of Congress. The 1997 heading matches the date and year given in the April 11, 2024, SYFY WIRE career article, which also says her family moved from Florida to California when she was 12 and that she attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks. The same article says she was a strong high-school golfer whose athletic plans, including a hoped-for path toward qualifying for the U.S. Open, receded as acting work increased and lead roles began to arrive.

Career highlights

SYFY WIRE reports that she began acting at a young age, playing Colby Marian Chandler on All My Children at 4, then had a main role on the CBS sitcom Gary Unmarried (beginning in 2008) and a small part in Bad Teacher (2011) before her first film lead, as Alex, in Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)—the credit cited in her Library of Congress record. Later television work in that account includes Supernatural, as Claire Novak; Halt and Catch Fire, as Joanie Clark; HBO's Big Little Lies, as Abigail Carlson, daughter of Reese Witherspoon's character; the BBC's 2017 Little Women, as Amy March; and the 2019 Netflix series The Society.

Film roles listed in the same 2024 article include parts in Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (both 2017), the comedy Blockers (2018), Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019), the horror comedy Freaky (2020), The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021), and Cassie Lang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). In 2024 she starred in Lisa Frankenstein and in the horror film Abigail, and the same article noted a Sundance premiere for the biopic Winner.

Name notes for searchers

Kathryn Newton is the professional name used in SYFY WIRE coverage and in library catalogs. Searchers looking for Alex in Paranormal Activity 4, or for Abigail Carlson in Big Little Lies, are usually aiming at the same person.