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Carter Wilson (also Stevens) is the central character in teen drama Finding Carter. Carter is portrayed by British actress Kathryn Prescott.

Development
Kathryn Prescott stated in an interview about people asking why her twin Megan wasn't cast as Taylor, Kathryn stated "There’s been a big thing of people asking why they didn’t cast my twin in it. It really confuses me because we’re not the Olsen twins. We don’t do all of our work together. I know that’s not what you were implying, but on Twitter, people were saying this all the time. I get what they’re saying because we are twins and she used to act, well she still does, but she’s writing now. That’s what she’s doing. After Skins, she decided she wanted to write. It would be weird if they just cast my real twin because there would be nothing for Carter to reject about her new family. It was so obvious that we were related if we looked that similar. Do you know what I mean? I like that we’re fraternal twins that don’t look exactly the same. Fraternal twins sometimes really, really don’t."

When discussing about what attracted her to the role of Carter, Prescott stated "What I loved about Carter was that she’s a 16 year old girl but she’s not written like your average teenage girl in a show about a teenage girl. I’ve never seen a 16 year old written like that before, which was weird because I feel like I know a lot of 16 year old who do have opinions and do have a bit of sass, but weren’t too snarky or brashish, and I hadn’t seen that really before that often. And I remember when I went for my third audition, the director said to me, the thing about Carter is that she’s kind of an adult stuck in a teenager’s body, and I loved that. Someone once asked me to describe Carter with two words and I said ‘old and young’ because she has this maturity about her. She can work people out very quickly. She’s very adult in the way she handles peoples and sees people, but then on the other hand she’s still very much a 16 year old girl and still has that slightly ‘I know it all’ attitude, sometimes, that 16 year olds sometimes have."

Storylines
After a night out on a carousel with Max and their friends that lands them in jail, Carter's world turns upside down when she meets with a woman from Child Protective Services and an FBI agent, who try to convince and prove to Carter that she was abducted and that Lori is her kidnapper.

After meeting her biological family, Carter has every intention on returning to be with Lori, who she sees as her real mother. The first family connection was with grandfather, Buddy. Carter goes out to a party with Taylor and Taylor's friend Gabe, Carter gets the blame when Taylor returns home drunk. Carter gets a job at a local ice-cream parlor and uses it and her publicity as a way to get Lori to find her.

Reception
Joshua Alston reviewing episode "Pretty When You Cry" on AV Club stated "Kathryn Prescott is an amazing actress, but even her performance hasn’t been enough to redeem what are deeply flawed storylines and a lack of direction."