Aisling Franciosi (/ˈæʃlɪŋ/ Italian: [ˈɛʃliŋɡ franˈtʃoːzi]; born 6 June 1993) is an Irish actress. She is known for playing the part of Katie Benedetto in the RTÉ-BBC Two crime drama television series The Fall and for her role as Kate Crawford in the TNT series Legends. Franciosi was born and grew up in Dublin, Ireland. Her father is Italian and her mother is Irish and she has two older brothers and a younger sister. She is trilingual, fluent in Irish, English and Italian. She studied French and Spanish at Trinity College, Dublin. In 2016, Franciosi appeared in the HBO series Game of Thrones in the sixth season as Lyanna Stark and reprised her role in the seventh season. In 2017, she took the lead role in The Nightingale, a period film set in Tasmania and directed by Jennifer Kent. She is set to star as Kate Rothko in the upcoming biographical-drama film Rothko, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson.
