Cecilia Appiah
English actress
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Cecilia Appiah is an English stage, screen and voice actress.
Cecilia Appiah | |
|---|---|
| Born | London |
| Education | |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2010- |
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
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Casualty | Cleo | 1 episode |
| 2022 | Toast of Tinseltown | Receptionist | 4 episodes |
| 2022 | The Chelsea Detective | PC Lana Appelby | 2 episodes |
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Carla | |
| 2023 | Torchwood: The Story Continues | Diana Lopez | Voice role |
| 2023 | Hijack | Mona | 7 episodes |
| 2024 | Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light | Nan Seymour |