Kathryn Prescott

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 Skins: Fire as part of the show's seventh and final series in 2013. In 2014, she played the title character on the MTV drama series Finding Carter, about a kidnapped child who is reunited with her parents over a decade later. Despite critical acclaim, it was cancelled after its second season. Prescott later appeared in the Netflix films To the Bone (2017) and Dude (2018). In 2019, she appeared in A Dog's Journey as CJ and had the lead role of Bird, a high school outcast who is unknowingly gifted a haunted camera, in the supernatural horror film Polaroid. In 2022, Prescott guest-starred in the fifth series of the medical drama New Amsterdam as Vanessa Bloom, a recovering drug addict. It marked her first role in a year since her accident in September 2021.

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.