MyAnna Buring was born in Sweden and raised in the Middle East. She moved to the UK when she was 16 and graduated from the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) in 2004. Buring is perhaps best known for her appearances in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and Part 2, Ripper Street, Downton Abbey, Kill List, and is reprising her role as the powerful sorceress ‘Tissaia de Vries’ in second series of The Witcher.

Theatre credits include; A Very Expensive Poison at the Old Vic Theatre, The Wasp at Hampstead and Trafalgar Theatre and Guardians (Edinburgh Festival, Fringe First Award Winner 2005 and Best Actress Fringe Awards 2005).