Kirsty Strain attended Bannerman High School in Glasgow before enrolling at Langside College in the same city to study acting and performance.
She later went on to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York in 2005, training under Paul Calderón[1] where fellow alumni in her year included Margherita Missoni and Norwegian actress Sofie Cappelen.
[3] Kirsty Strain's career began when she went on to work with the Scottish Youth Theatre's patrons, Blythe Duff and Colin McCredie in Taggart for STV in the role of Lisa Corrie in the programme's 99th episode, "So Long Baby" in 2009.
She was a regular in the BBC One Scotland television series River City, in the recurring role of Angie Warren.
She had a role in the BBC One drama, One of Us, and she most recently appeared in an episode of Outlander, which was televised in October 2017.