The actress who plays Renfri of Creyden on two episodes of Netflix's "The Witcher" — those episodes being the series premiere "The End's Beginning," and the season finale "Much More" — is Emma Appleton. Born in Witney, Oxfordshire, England (via Oxford Mail), Appleton has been steadily raising her profile since moving from modeling to acting work in 2016-2017.
Her first major exposure came courtesy of "Clique," a BBC Three series about the shady and perilous underbelly of an elite university clique in Edinburgh, Scotland. In all six episodes of Season 1, which aired in 2017, Appleton played Fay Brookstone, an unhappy member of the Solasta Women's Initiative whose shocking death in the first episode provides much of the thrust for the season's events. Not long after, she appeared on two episodes of National Geographic's "Genius: Picasso," nabbed another big role on British television as Fiona "Feef" Symonds, the in-over-her-head protagonist of Channel 4 and Netflix's period spy drama "Traitors," and joined the regular cast of the Sex Pistols-focused FX miniseries "Pistol" as Nancy Spungen.
More recently, we've been able to see Appleton as Maggie, one-half of the dynamic duo at the center of the BBC One dramedy "Everything I Know About Love," alongside Bel Powley. The role has been arguably the most high-profile one in the English actress' career so far, even inspiring across-the-board critical acclaim, with The Telegraph's Eleanor Halls commending the "dollops of charisma" she displays in the role.
