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Missouri native Katherine McNamara is an accomplished actor, singer, dancer, songwriter and student who can currently be seen starring as the lead 'Clary Fray' in the brand new Freeform series "Shadowhunters," . At the age of 14, McNamara graduated with honors from high school and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in business with an emphasis in finance from Drexel University's Le Bow School of Business at the age of 17. She is now pursuing a Master of Science in Literature at John Hopkins University as part of their advanced academics graduate degree program. McNamara has a passion for all forms of dance including ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, waltz and hula. She is a member of the Actors Equity Young Performers Committee and a reader for the Blank Theater's New Play Development Reading Committee. Katherine is committed to giving back to the community and is an ambassador for the United Nation's girl empowerment organization, Girl Up, a spokesperson for Stomp Out Bullying, an avid supporter of the MS Society and the Lollipop Theater Network, a lifetime Girl Scout and a volunteer for the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. She currently resides in Los Angeles and her hometown is Kansas City, MO.
Katherine was a softball pitcher and ballerina before she caught the "acting bug".
Katherine graduated high school with honors at age 14.
Katherine graduated from university at age 17.
Good friends with Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn co-star Joel Courtney. They both review movies together for "Kids Pick Flicks".
(October 2010) Katherine is portraying "Fredrika Armfeldt" in Broadways "A Little Night Music", starring Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch.
She was raised in Lees Summit, Missouri.
She is an only child.
Girl Up gives girls an opportunity and gives them a platform and starting point through which they can take it and run with it and help give girls the opportunity to have the freedom, independence and the ability to get an education.
I credit Kansas City with my work ethic and learning from the amazing artists that are in that town.
Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.
