Cecilia Appiah

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Cecilia Appiah
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Education
OccupationActress
Years active2010-

Cecilia Appiah is an English stage, screen and voice actress.

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Early life

Appiah was born in West London. She graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and was a Carleton Hobbs Bursary winner. [1]

Career

As a child actress in 2010, she voiced Mary, daughter of Niamh Cusack's Helen in the BBC Radio 4 play Christmas by the Lake, which was broadcast on Christmas Day and also starred Robert Lindsay. [2] She would later also provide voice work for the Big Finish Productions audio story The War Master: Self-Defence. [3]

Stage

On the stage, she appeared in an adaptation of Andrea Levy's The Long Song at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2021. [4] She played Phoebe in Mike Bartlett’s Scandaltown at the Lyric Hammersmith in 2022. [5] [6] In 2023, she appeared as Estella in Tanika Gupta’s adaptation of Great Expectations , at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. [7]

Film & television

She portrayed Carla in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Mona in Apple TV series Hijack . She also appeared in The Chelsea Detective [8] and Channel 4 comedy series Toast of Tinseltown . [9]

In 2024, she was cast as Nan Seymour, sister of Jane, in the BBC One adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light . [10] [11] [12]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2021 Casualty Cleo1 episode
2022 Toast of Tinseltown Receptionist4 episodes
2022 The Chelsea Detective PC Lana Appelby2 episodes
2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Carla
2023Torchwood: The Story ContinuesDiana LopezVoice role
2023 Hijack Mona7 episodes
2024 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Nan Seymour

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