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MyAnna Buring

Acting Born Sep 22, 1979 Sundsvall, Västernorrlands län, Sweden 24 credits

Biography

MyAnna Buring, born Anna Margaretha My Rantapää, was born on 22 September 1979 in Sundsvall, Sweden and is a Swedish actress, mainly active in the UK.

She was born in Sweden, but moved, with her parents, to Oman and Kuwait, where her father, Klas, worked as an orthopedic consultant and surgeon while her mother sold furs and Christmas trees. MyAnna studied at the American British Academy in Muscat (ABA) – Now known as “The ABA Oman International School”.

At the age of 16, she moved to the UK herself where she completed her Bachelor’s degree. (International Baccalaureate) at a boarding school in Oxford. She also studied drama and Spanish, which she later dropped out of, at the University of Bristol and later continued to study and graduate from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in 2004.

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Known for

Midsomer Murders

as Mandy

Doctor Who

as Scooti Manista

The Witcher

as Tissaia De Vries

Full filmography

  • Midsomer Murders (1997) as Mandy
  • Doctor Who (2005) as Scooti Manista
  • The Witcher (2019) as Tissaia De Vries
  • Downton Abbey (2010) as Edna Braithwaite
  • Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) as Lucky Dyson
  • Unforgotten (2015) as Melinda Ricci
  • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011) as Tanya Denali
  • Ripper Street (2012) as Long Susan Hart
  • Crossing Lines (2013) as Anika
  • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012) as Tanya
  • Doctor Who Confidential (2005)
  • The Descent (2005) as Sam Vernet
  • Exit (2019) as Formuesforvalter
  • Prey (2014) as Jules Hope
  • The Responder (2022) as Kate Carson
  • A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971) as Froken de la Gardie
  • Last Breath (2025) as Hanna (1st Officer)
  • Doomsday (2008) as Cally Kane
  • The Descent: Part 2 (2009) as Sam Vernet
  • The Omen (2006) as Tabloid Reporter #2
  • Grindhouse (2007) as Featured Woman (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
  • Killers Anonymous (2019) as Joanna
  • White Heat (2012) as Lilly
  • Any Human Heart (2010) as Ingeborg