Carina Birrell

Carina is a Scottish rising film and TV star, from a small village outside of Glasgow. She has been developing her love of acting from a young age training with Scottish Youth Theatre and Stagecoach School of Performing Arts. She moved to London to train at the prestigious Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. Since graduating Carina has been building her credits in British Independent Film, as well as appearing as featured and guest roles in several major studio pictures, and BBC / ITV television shows. A keen sports enthusiast, Carina is a Yoga enthusiast and competed at national level as both a swimmer and long distance runner, and qualified at elite level in her first olympic distance triathlon in London. She puts her passion for acting down to a love of psychology, people and storytelling, and to her late Grandfather who was a passionate filmmaker – building the smallest cinema in Scotland in his Glasgow home in the 1950s.