# MyAnna Buring

My Anna Margaretha Buring Rantapää (born 22 September 1979), known professionally as MyAnna Buring (Swedish:), 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).

## Early life

Buring was born My Anna Margaretha 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 with her childhood friend Stegath Dorr.
As a teenager, Buring temporarily quit school and worked as a glass collector 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. Also 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. In 2008, Buring starred as Alice in the independent film Credo, also known as The Devil's Curse. Buring also starred as Debbie in Much Ado About Nothing (BBC One), Midsomer Murders (ITV), Casualty (BBC One) and Murder Prevention (Channel 5). For MahWaff Theatre Company, she starred in Guardians, Monologue for an Ensemble and An Inspector Calls.
Buring played the role of the CND peace activist and student Adriana Doyle in series three, episode two, 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. Since 2019, she has played the role of Tissaia de Vries in the Netflix fantasy series The Witcher.
She played the role of Dawn Sturgess in the 2020 television 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. Other film roles include:
* Doomsday in 2008.
* The female lead in the film Lesbian Vampire Killers, released to UK cinemas on 20 March 2009.
* In May 2010, she appeared as Jozefa in Witchville for the SyFy channel.
* Tanya of the Denali Coven in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2.
* Horror film Kill List, 2011, in which she acted the part of the protagonist's wife.

### Theatre

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

Buring lives in North London. In May 2017, she gave birth to a son. In 2022, she opened up about her experience with perinatal depression, but generally prefers to keep the details of her personal life private.

## Activism

A 2013 interview with The Herald noted Buring's knowledge of and "interest in the world around her". She is a Women for Women ambassador and became involved with SolarAid in 2014. She is vocal on a number of social issues, such as climate change and the rights of refugees. In light of the 2023 Israel–Hamas 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

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2005 | The Descent | Sam | |
| 2006 | The Omen | Tabloid Reporter #2 | |
| 2007 | Grindhouse | Featured Woman | Segment "Don't" |
| 2007 | English Language (with English Subtitles) | Esther | Short film |
| 2008 | Doomsday | Cally | |
| 2008 | Freakdog | Shelby | |
| 2008 | Credo | Alice | |
| 2009 | The Road to Vengeance | | Short film |
| 2009 | Lesbian Vampire Killers | Lotte | |
| 2009 | City Rats | Sammy | |
| 2009 | The Descent Part 2 | Sam | |
| 2010 | Devil's Playground | Angela | |
| 2010 | Half Hearted | Lauren | Short film |
| 2011 | Au Revoir Monkeys | Anna | |
| 2011 | Way of the Morris | Will-O'-Wisps | Documentary, voice role |
| 2011 | Kill List | Shel | |
| 2011 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 | Tanya Denali | |
| 2012 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 | Tanya Denali | |
| 2014 | Hyena | Lisa | |
| 2014 | Lost in Karastan | Chulpan | |
| 2015 | Hot Property | Melody Munro | |
| 2016 | The Comedian's Guide to Survival | Nell | |
| 2019 | Official Secrets | Jasmine | |
| 2019 | Killers Anonymous | Joanna | |
| 2023 | 97 Minutes | Kim | |
| 2025 | Last Breath | Hanna | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2004 | Murder Prevention | Michelle Wynne | Episode "Last Man Out: Part 1" |
| 2004 | Casualty | Kirsty Morrison | Episode "Past Imperfect" |
| 2006 | Doctor Who | Scooti Manista | Episode "The Impossible Planet" |
| 2007 | The Bill | Kim Heyes | Episode "Stealth Attack" |
| 2008 | Midsomer Murders | Mandy | Episode "Midsomer Life" |
| 2008 | The Wrong Door | Various | 5 episodes |
| 2010 | Comedy Lab | Inga | Episode "Filth" |
| 2010 | Witchville | Jozefa | Television film |
| 2010 | Inspector George Gently | Adriana Doyle | Episode "Peace & Love" |
| 2010 | Any Human Heart | Ingeborg | 1 episode |
| 2011 | Super Eruption | Claire | Television film |
| 2012 | White Heat | Lilly | 6 episodes |
| 2012 | Blackout | Sylvie | Three-part drama |
| 2012–2013 | Downton Abbey | Edna Braithwaite | Christmas special (series 4) |
| 2012 | The Poison Tree | Karen Clarke | Two-part drama |
| 2012–2016 | Ripper Street | Susan "Long Susan" Hart / Caitlin Swift | Series regular |
| 2013 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Lucky Dyson | Episode "A Caribbean Mystery" |
| 2013 | Crossing Lines | Anika | Episodes "The Animals" and "Desperation & Desperados" |
| 2014 | The Great War: The People's Story | Dorothy Lawrence | Episode: "Reg, Alan, James and Dorothy" |
| 2015 | Prey | Jules Hope | Series 2 (3 episodes) |
| 2015 | Dag | Anne | Series 4 regular |
| 2015 | Banished | Elizabeth Quinn | 7 episodes |
| 2017 | In the Dark | DI Helen Weeks | 4 episodes |
| 2018 | One Night | Elizabeth | NRK series |
| 2019–2023 | The Witcher | Tissaia de Vries | Main role (seasons 1–3) |
| 2020 | The Salisbury Poisonings | Dawn Sturgess | 3 episodes |
| 2022 | The Responder | Kate Carson | 5 episodes |
| 2022 | Primal | Rikka | Voice role, episode "The Red Mist" |
| 2022 | Count Magnus | Froken de la Gardie | Television film |
| 2024 | The Fall: Skydive Murder Plot | Victoria Cilliers | Documentary |
| 2025 | Unforgotten | Melinda Ricci | Series 6 |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2016 | The 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 |
| 2006 | Seduced | | Finborough Theatre, London |
| 2021 | Milk and Gall | Vera | Theatre503, London |
| 2023 | Anthropology | Merril | Hampstead Theatre, London |