Out and about with Caitriona Balfe

Caitriona Balfe

Before Caitriona Balfe shot to fame as the leading lady of time-travel romance series Outlander, the Irish actress started out as a model.

Balfe, then 18, recalls one of her earliest experiences as model, leaving her home country for France, in an interview with Backstage. “When I first arrived in Paris, I was told to take a bus to the office. I left my suitcase – I barely spoke any French – and someone took me across the street, helped me buy a Carte Orange (a travel pass). They printed out five addresses that I had to go to that day, and then they sent me off,” she said in the interview.