Cecilia Appiah

Cecilia Appiah is an English stage, screen and voice actress.

Early life Appiah was born in West London. She graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and was a Carleton Hobbs Bursary winner.

Career As a child actress in 2010, she voiced Mary, daughter of Niamh Cusack's Helen in the BBC Radio 4 play Christmas by the Lake, which was broadcast on Christmas Day and also starred Robert Lindsay. She would later also provide voice work for the Big Finish Productions audio story The War Master: Self-Defence.

Stage On the stage, she appeared in an adaptation of Andrea Levy's The Long Song at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2021. She played Phoebe in Mike Bartlett’s Scandaltown at the Lyric Hammersmith in 2022. In 2023, she appeared as Estella in Tanika Gupta’s adaptation of Great Expectations, at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre.

Film & television She portrayed Carla in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Mona in Apple TV+ series Hijack. She also appeared in The Chelsea Detective and Channel 4 comedy series Toast of Tinseltown.

In 2024, she was cast as Nan Seymour, sister of Jane, in the BBC One adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 2021 Casualty Cleo 1 episode 2022 Toast of Tinseltown Receptionist 4 episodes 2022 The Chelsea Detective PC Lana Appelby 2 episodes 2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Carla 2023 Torchwood: The Story Continues Diana Lopez Voice role 2023 Hijack Mona 7 episodes 2024 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Nan Seymour