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Evening Standard
Vicky Jessop

Ready for some female rage? Get set for Lauren Lyle’s return as Scottish cop Karen Pirie

For the past few years, Lauren Lyle has been best known as Marsali MacKimmie Fraser in the Starz TV drama Outlander. But that might be about to change – thanks to Karen Pirie. “So many people who come up to me… I used to always just get recognised for Outlander and now it’s often Karen,” Lyle tells me. “Often people are like, ‘she speaks to her boss in a way I wish I could.’”

And then some. The show, which first aired in 2022, starred Lyle as a no-nonsense detective who ends up solving a cold case from the Scottish police archives.

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