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Gemma Fray took on the role of Brianna between the ages of eight and 10, before actress Sophie Skelton took over the part as a teenager and young adult. The reason Skelton took over the role in the first place is simply Brianna grows up over the course of Outlander and an adult actor was needed to play the part.
There was a bit of debate on which part of America Brianna was going to be from. Obviously in the book, she's from Boston. We toyed with the Brahmin accent, but it sounded too English. It had to be a Boston accent from the 1960s.
Jamie and Claire's daughter, Brianna MacKenzie, is around 29 years old. Although Brianna is Jamie and Claire's daughter, she was born in 1948, after Claire returned to her own timeline, and was raised to believe that her father was Claire's first husband.
In Gabaldon's books, Brianna is described as a 6-foot-tall redhead with blue eyes. Outlander's hair and makeup team didn't ask Skelton to wear colored contacts, but they did attempt to dye her dark brown hair. After a disastrous result, production bought wigs for the actress.