MyAnna Buring facts for kids
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MyAnna Buring
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Buring at the British Independent Film Awards 2014
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My Anna Margaretha Buring Rantapää
22 September 1979 Sundsvall, Västernorrland, Sweden
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2004–present |
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MyAnna Buring (born My Anna Margaretha Buring Rantapää on September 22, 1979) is a Swedish-born British actress. She is famous for playing Tanya in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn movies and the powerful sorceress Tissaia de Vries in the Netflix series The Witcher. She has also appeared in many other movies and TV shows, including The Descent and Ripper Street.
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Early Life and Education
MyAnna Buring was born in Sundsvall, Sweden. Soon after, her family moved to the Middle East. Her father, Klas, was a doctor who specialized in bones and muscles, and her mother had a business selling coats and Christmas trees in Kuwait. Buring went to high school at the American British Academy in Muscat, Oman.
When she was a teenager, she moved to England. She studied Drama at the University of Bristol. Later, she trained to be an actress at the famous London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), graduating in 2004.
Acting Career
MyAnna has had a successful career in movies, television, and on stage. She is known for playing a wide variety of characters.
Television Roles
Buring has appeared in many popular TV shows. In 2006, she had a role in a Doctor Who episode called "The Impossible Planet".
From 2012 to 2016, she played the important character Long Susan in the BBC series Ripper Street. In 2012, she also joined the cast of the hit show Downton Abbey as a maid named Edna Braithwaite for the Christmas special and the fourth season.
Since 2019, she has played Tissaia de Vries, the head of the magic academy Aretuza, in the popular Netflix fantasy show The Witcher. She also appeared in the 2020 drama The Salisbury Poisonings and the 2022 police drama The Responder.
Movie Roles
MyAnna's first major movie role was in the 2005 horror film The Descent. She played one of the main characters who gets trapped in a cave. She also appeared in the sequel, The Descent Part 2, in flashback scenes.
Many fans know her as Tanya, the leader of the Denali Coven, in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011) and Part 2 (2012). She also acted in the horror movie Kill List (2011) and the action film Doomsday (2008).
Stage and Voice Acting
Besides screen acting, Buring also performs in plays. In 2021, she starred in a play called Milk and Gall in London.
She has also done voice acting for video games. She voiced the character Anna Henrietta in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine and Benicia in the 2023 game Mia and the Dragon Princess.
Personal Life and Activism
MyAnna Buring lives in north London. She has one son, who was born in May 2017. She generally keeps her personal life private, but in 2022, she shared her experience with perinatal depression to help others.
Buring is also known for her interest in helping people and making the world a better place. She is an ambassador for the charity Women for Women International and supports SolarAid, an organization that provides clean energy. She often speaks out about important topics like climate change and the rights of refugees.
See also
In Spanish: MyAnna Buring para niños
