MyAnna Buring

My Margaretha Anna Buring Rantapää (born 22 September 1979), known professionally as MyAnna Buring , is a Swedish-born British actress. Her films include The Descent, Kill List (2011), and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011) and Part 2 (2012). On television, she is known for her roles in the BBC series Ripper Street (2012–2016) and the Netflix series The Witcher (2019–2023).

Early life and education Buring was born My Margaretha Anna Buring Rantapää on 22 September 1979 in Sundsvall, Sweden, and later moved to the Middle East. Her father, Klas, was an orthopaedic consultant and surgeon, while her mother sold fur coats and Christmas trees in Kuwait.

Buring attended secondary school at the American British Academy in Muscat, Oman. As a teenager, Buring temporarily quit school and worked collecting glasses in a Stockholm bar. She then moved to England, where she completed the International Baccalaureate at a boarding school in Oxford. She studied drama and Spanish (though she eventually dropped Spanish) at the University of Bristol, and went on to graduate from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in 2004.

She was the associate director of the MahWaff Theatre Company.

Career Television In 2006, Buring appeared in "The Impossible Planet", the first episode of a two-episode Doctor Who story. Her character, Scooti, perished in the vacuum of space. Buring also starred as Debbie in Much Ado About Nothing (BBC One), Midsomer Murders (ITV), Casualty (BBC One) and Murder Prevention (Channel 5).

Buring played the role of the CND peace activist and student Adriana Doyle in series 3, episode 2, of Inspector George Gently, which was screened in the UK on BBC One in October 2010. In 2012, Buring had significant supporting roles in the BBC drama serials Blackout and Ripper Street. She also joined the cast of Downton Abbey, playing the role of the maid Edna Braithwaite in the 2012 Christmas special episode and the fourth season.

In 2019, she started playing sorcereress Tissaia de Vries in the Netflix fantasy series The Witcher.

She played the role of Dawn Sturgess in the 2020 mini-series The Salisbury Poisonings. In 2022 she played the role of Kate Carson in the BBC TV drama The Responder.

Film In her first film role, Buring starred in a leading role in the 2005 horror film The Descent, as one of the main characters among the women who ventured down into an uncharted cave system. Buring also appeared in the film's sequel, The Descent Part 2, in the form of flashbacks.

In 2008, Buring starred as Alice in the independent film Credo (also known as The Devil's Curse). Other film roles include Doomsday (2008), Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009), and Kill List (2011).

Buring also played Tanya, the leader of the Denali Coven who are "cousins" of Edward Cullen's family, in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011) and Part 2 (2012).

Theatre In 2006, Buring played Olivia in a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by Exeter's Northcott Theatre Company, and appeared in a new play, Seduced, at London's Finborough Theatre. For MahWaff Theatre Company, she starred in Guardians, Monologue for an Ensemble and An Inspector Calls.

Buring played the lead as Vera in Mathilde Dratwa's Milk and Gall in South London's Theatre503. The show ran from 2 to 27 November 2021.

Personal life In May 2017, Buring gave birth to a son. In 2022, she opened up about her experience with antenatal depression,

Activism

A 2013 interview with The Herald noted Buring's knowledge of and "interest in the world around her". and the rights of refugees. In light of the Gaza war, Buring was one of over two thousand to sign an Artists for Palestine letter calling for a ceasefire and accusing western governments of "not only tolerating war crimes but aiding and abetting them."

Filmography Film

Television

Video games Year Title Role Notes 2016The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine Anna Henrietta 2023 Mia and the Dragon Princess Benicia

Stage Year Title Role Notes 2006 Twelfth Night Olivia Northcott Theatre, Exeter Seduced Finborough Theatre, London 2021 Milk and Gall Vera Theatre503, London 2023 Anthropology Merril Hampstead Theatre, London