Outlander includes Caitriona Balfe.
Caitriona Balfe . She is best known for her role as Claire Fraser in the Starz series Outlander , for which she won two People 's Choice Awards and two Saturn Awards , and received two nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series -- Drama . Outlander (TV series) . 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 .