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MyAnna Buring
My Margaretha Anna Buring Rantapää (born 22 September 1979), known professionally as MyAnna Buring (Swedish: [mʏˈânːa ˈbʉ̂ːrɪŋ]), is a Swedish-born British actress. Her films include The Descent (2005), 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).
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.[citation needed] As a teenager, Buring temporarily quit school and worked a 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.
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).[citation needed]
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 December 2012, Buring played protagonist Karen Clarke, a woman who is haunted by her past which eventually catches up with her, in a two-part drama called The Poison Tree that was broadcast on ITV1. In 2013, Buring appeared in an episode of NBC's Crossing Lines, playing villainess Anika Hauten. In July 2017, she played the lead role of Manchester police Detective Inspector Helen Weeks in BBC 4-part drama In the Dark.
In 2019, she started playing 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.
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MyAnna Buring
My Margaretha Anna Buring Rantapää (born 22 September 1979), known professionally as MyAnna Buring (Swedish: [mʏˈânːa ˈbʉ̂ːrɪŋ]), is a Swedish-born British actress. Her films include The Descent (2005), 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).
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.[citation needed] As a teenager, Buring temporarily quit school and worked a 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.
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).[citation needed]
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 December 2012, Buring played protagonist Karen Clarke, a woman who is haunted by her past which eventually catches up with her, in a two-part drama called The Poison Tree that was broadcast on ITV1. In 2013, Buring appeared in an episode of NBC's Crossing Lines, playing villainess Anika Hauten. In July 2017, she played the lead role of Manchester police Detective Inspector Helen Weeks in BBC 4-part drama In the Dark.
In 2019, she started playing 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.