Outlander stars Caitriona Balfe as a time-traveling World War II nurse.
Outlander is a British-American television drama series based on the historical time travel Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon . It stars Caitriona Balfe as Claire Randall , a married World War II nurse who in 1945 finds herself transported back to the Scotland of 1743 , where she encounters the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser ( Sam Heughan ) and becomes embroiled in the Jacobite risings .