Emma Appleton
Biography
Emma Jill Appleton is a British actress and model born and raised in Witney, Oxfordshire, England. She attended West Witney Primary School and Wood Green School. Appleton began her career as a teenager working as a model, which led to acting in 2017 when she joined the cast of the BBC Three series Clique, playing the role of Fay Brookstone for six episodes. In 2019, she played Feef Symonds in six episodes of the Channel 4 spy thriller Traitors. She also landed a role as Princess Renfri in the Netflix fantasy drama series The Witcher, created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and adapted from the book series by Polish writer Andrzej Sapko.
Career overview
Emma Jill Appleton was born and raised in Witney, Oxfordshire, England, where she attended West Witney Primary School and Wood Green School. She began her career as a teenager working as a model. Her transition to acting took place in 2017 when she secured a role as Fay Brookstone in the BBC Three series Clique, appearing in six episodes.
Following her television debut, Appleton took on the major role of Feef Symonds in six episodes of the 2019 Channel 4 spy thriller Traitors. She subsequently landed a role as Princess Renfri in the Netflix fantasy drama series The Witcher. The series was created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and adapted from the book series written by Polish author Andrzej Sapko. In this production, Appleton appeared alongside Henry Cavill.
Appleton has built a recognized presence in television acting through these prominent roles across multiple networks and streaming platforms. Her professional background encompasses her early modeling work in her home country and her subsequent progression into scripted television drama.
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- Gone (2026) as Alana
- The Severed Sun (2025) as Magpie
- The Road Trip (2024) as Addie
- The Killing Kind (2023) as Ingrid Lewis
- LOLA (2023) as Thomasina Hanbury
- Pistol (2022) as Nancy Spungen
- Everything I Know About Love (2022) as Maggie
- The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021) as Hannah
- Intergalactic (2021) as Mya Miller
- Kotti (2021) as Katya
- Making The Witcher (2020) as Self - Renfri
- The Witcher (2019) as Renfri
- Traitors (2019) as Feef Symonds
- The Nun (2018) as Elena (uncredited)
- Genius (2017) as Germaine
- The End of the F***ing World (2017) as Kelly
- Clique (2017) as Fay Brookstone
- Dreamlands (2016) as Pixie
- Grantchester (2014) as Sally
- The One Show (2006) as Self
- Mercenary: An Extraction Series