MyAnna Buring
Encyclopedia
MyAnna Buring is a Swedish
actress best known for appearing in the 2005 horror film The Descent
.
She attended high school at the American British Academy
in Muscat
, Oman
with prolific horror filmmaker and character actor Stegath Dorr
, who was a childhood friend.
Buring graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
in 2004. She is also the associate director of the MahWaff Theatre Company.
", the first episode of a two-episode Doctor Who
story. Her character, Scooti, perished in the vacuum of space; the scenes of her body floating towards a black hole
were filmed in an underwater tank in Pinewood Studios
, to create the effect of weightlessness.
Also in 2006, Buring played Olivia in a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by Exeter's Northcott Theatre Company, alongside Sara Weymouth and David Gwillim
, and appeared in a new play, Seduced by Michael Kingsbury at London's Finborough Theatre
. In 2008, Buring starred as Alice in the independent film Credo
, also known as The Devil's Curse
.
Buring also starred as Debbie in Much Ado About Nothing (BBC1), Midsomer Murders
(ITV
), Casualty (BBC1) and Murder Prevention (Channel 5). For MahWaff Theatre Company, she starred in Guardians, Monologue For An Ensemble and An Inspector Calls.
Buring played the role of CND peace activist and student Adrianna Doyle in series three, episode two of Inspector George Gently, which was screened in the UK on BBC1 on October 2010.
. Her character, Sam, was one of the main characters among the women who ventured down into an uncharted cave system. Buring also appeared in the films sequel, The Descent Part 2, in the form of flashbacks.
She also starred in Doomsday
in 2008, linking her again with director Neil Marshall.
In 2009, Buring appeared as the female lead in the film Lesbian Vampire Killers
opposite James Corden
and Mathew Horne
, which was released to UK cinemas 20 March 2009.
In May 2010 she appeared as Jozefa in Witchville
for SyFy in the U.S. alongside Sarah Douglas
.
Buring plays the role of Tanya of the Denali Coven in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I and II.
In 2011 Buring appeared in the horror film Kill List
, in which she acted the part of the protagonist's wife.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
actress best known for appearing in the 2005 horror film The Descent
The Descent
The Descent is a 2005 British horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film follows six women who, having entered an unmapped cave system, become trapped, and are hunted by subterranean flesh-eating humanoids....
.
Early life
Buring was born in Sweden but grew up in the Middle East. When she turned 16, she moved to England.She attended high school at the American British Academy
American British Academy
The American-British Academy, established in September 1987, is in the city of Muscat, Oman and is one of the premier international schools in the Persian Gulf region. It is a private-non-profit-co-educational-day school that offers a demanding K-12 English-language curriculum to expatriate...
in Muscat
Muscat, Oman
Muscat is the capital of Oman. It is also the seat of government and largest city in the Governorate of Muscat. As of 2008, the population of the Muscat metropolitan area was 1,090,797. The metropolitan area spans approximately and includes six provinces called wilayats...
, Oman
Oman
Oman , officially called the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the...
with prolific horror filmmaker and character actor Stegath Dorr
Stegath Dorr
Stegath James Dorr is a Canadian-American screenwriter, film actor and producer, credited under the screen name James Wagnor. He is noted for forming the commercial film industry in Oman beginning in 2006 with his association with Kamel Krifa and introducing the concept of the "global ensemble...
, who was a childhood friend.
Buring graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a leading British drama school in west London. LAMDA's president is Timothy West and its new principal is Joanna Read, who recently succeeded Peter James...
in 2004. She is also the associate director of the MahWaff Theatre Company.
Television
In 2006, Buring guest-starred in "The Impossible PlanetThe Impossible Planet
"The Impossible Planet" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the first part of a two-part story, followed by "The Satan Pit". The TARDIS lands in a base on a planet orbiting a black hole, an allegedly impossible situation that stumps even the Doctor...
", the first episode of a two-episode Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
story. Her character, Scooti, perished in the vacuum of space; the scenes of her body floating towards a black hole
Black hole
A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole. Around a black hole there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that...
were filmed in an underwater tank in Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Studios is a major British film studio situated in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, approximately west of central London. The studios have played host to many productions over the years from huge blockbuster films to television shows to commercials to pop promos.The purchase of Shepperton...
, to create the effect of weightlessness.
Also in 2006, Buring played Olivia in a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by Exeter's Northcott Theatre Company, alongside Sara Weymouth and David Gwillim
David Gwillim
David Gwillim is an English actor, best known for playing Prince Hal in the BBC Television Shakespeare Henry IV, Part I and Henry IV, Part II and the title role in Henry V which were broadcast in 1979, and John Bold in The Barchester Chronicles broadcast in 1982.- Biography :Gwillim was born in...
, and appeared in a new play, Seduced by Michael Kingsbury at London's Finborough Theatre
Finborough Theatre
The Finborough Theatre is a fifty seat theatre in the Earls Court area of London, United Kingdom , which presents new British writing, UK and premieres of new plays, primarily from the English speaking world including North America, Canada, Scotland and Ireland, music theatre, and rarely seen...
. In 2008, Buring starred as Alice in the independent film Credo
Credo (film)
Credo, also known as The Devil's Curse, is a 2008 low-budget psychological horror film directed and produced by Toni Harman and written by Alex Wakeford. It stars MyAnna Buring, Clayton Watson, and Nathalie Pownall, Rhea Bailey, and Mark Joseph as five British college students that find themselves...
, also known as The Devil's Curse
Credo (film)
Credo, also known as The Devil's Curse, is a 2008 low-budget psychological horror film directed and produced by Toni Harman and written by Alex Wakeford. It stars MyAnna Buring, Clayton Watson, and Nathalie Pownall, Rhea Bailey, and Mark Joseph as five British college students that find themselves...
.
Buring also starred as Debbie in Much Ado About Nothing (BBC1), Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...
(ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
), Casualty (BBC1) and Murder Prevention (Channel 5). For MahWaff Theatre Company, she starred in Guardians, Monologue For An Ensemble and An Inspector Calls.
Buring played the role of CND peace activist and student Adrianna Doyle in series three, episode two of Inspector George Gently, which was screened in the UK on BBC1 on October 2010.
Film
In her first film role Buring starred in a leading role in the 2005 horror film The Descent by director Neil MarshallNeil Marshall
Neil Marshall is an English film director, editor and screenwriter. Marshall began his career in editing and in 2002 directed his first feature film Dog Soldiers, which became a cult film. He followed up with the critically acclaimed horror film The Descent in 2005...
. Her character, Sam, was one of the main characters among the women who ventured down into an uncharted cave system. Buring also appeared in the films sequel, The Descent Part 2, in the form of flashbacks.
She also starred in Doomsday
Doomsday (film)
Doomsday is a 2008 British science fiction film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future. Scotland has been quarantined because of a deadly virus. When the virus is found in London, political leaders send a team led by Major Eden Sinclair to Scotland to find a...
in 2008, linking her again with director Neil Marshall.
In 2009, Buring appeared as the female lead in the film Lesbian Vampire Killers
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Lesbian Vampire Killers is a 2009 British comedy horror film written by Stewart Williams and Paul Hupfield, produced by Steve Clark-Hall and directed by Phil Claydon.- Plot :...
opposite James Corden
James Corden
James Kimberley Corden is an English actor, television writer, producer and presenter. He is co-creator and star of BBC comedy shows Gavin & Stacey and Horne & Corden, and acted in the 2009 film Lesbian Vampire Killers....
and Mathew Horne
Mathew Horne
Mathew Frazer Horne is an English actor, stand-up comedian, television presenter and narrator best known for appearing on several BBC sketch shows and sitcoms, most notably Gavin & Stacey portraying Gavin Shipman, The Catherine Tate Show, Teachers and Horne and Corden.-Early life:Horne was born...
, which was released to UK cinemas 20 March 2009.
In May 2010 she appeared as Jozefa in Witchville
Witchville (film)
Witchville is a 2010 made for television fantasy-adventure film based on witchcraft in a medieval feudal time period, written by John Werner and Amy Krell, and directed by Pearry Reginald Teo. The film was released and distributed by Syfy Network and it stars Luke Goss, Sarah Douglas, MyAnna Buring...
for SyFy in the U.S. alongside Sarah Douglas
Sarah Douglas
Sarah Douglas is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for playing the Kryptonian supervillain Ursa in the first two Superman movies , and for her role as Pamela Lynch in the 1980s primetime drama series Falcon Crest .-Early life:Douglas was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, the...
.
Buring plays the role of Tanya of the Denali Coven in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I and II.
In 2011 Buring appeared in the horror film Kill List
Kill List
Kill List is 2011 British horror film from Ben Wheatley, starring Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley and MyAnna Buring. When a British soldier returns home from Kiev, he joins an old friend as contract killers. His disturbed past surfaces as he spins out of control during jobs and ominous employers...
, in which she acted the part of the protagonist's wife.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Murder Prevention Murder Prevention Murder Prevention was a British police drama inspired by the real-life Homicide Prevention Unit within the Metropolitan Police. It was produced for Five by World Productions who previously produced the television series The Cops. The series consisted of three two-part stories... |
Michelle Wynne | TV series, episode "Last Man Out: Part 1" |
| 2004 | Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The... |
Kirsty Morrison | TV series, episode "Past Imperfect" |
| 2005 | Sam | ||
| 2006 | Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior... |
Scooti Manista | TV series, episode "The Impossible Planet" |
| 2006 | Tabloid Reporter #2 | ||
| 2007 | Grindhouse | Featured Woman | segment "Don't" |
| 2007 | English Language (with English Subtitles) | Esther | |
| 2007 | Kim Heyes | TV series, episode "Stealth Attack" | |
| 2008 | Doomsday Doomsday (film) Doomsday is a 2008 British science fiction film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future. Scotland has been quarantined because of a deadly virus. When the virus is found in London, political leaders send a team led by Major Eden Sinclair to Scotland to find a... |
Cally | |
| 2008 | Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was... |
Mandy | TV series, episode "Midsomer Life" |
| 2008 | Freakdog Freakdog Freakdog is a 2008 horror film by Paddy Breathnach, that originally went under the title Red Mist.-Plot:The film circles around four medical students who, while out partying one night, spike the drink of a unknowing and loner colleague nicknamed 'Freakdog'; it turned out to be a very powerful... |
Shelby | |
| 2008 | Various | TV series, 5 episodes | |
| 2008 | Credo Credo (film) Credo, also known as The Devil's Curse, is a 2008 low-budget psychological horror film directed and produced by Toni Harman and written by Alex Wakeford. It stars MyAnna Buring, Clayton Watson, and Nathalie Pownall, Rhea Bailey, and Mark Joseph as five British college students that find themselves... |
Alice | |
| 2009 | |||
| 2009 | Lesbian Vampire Killers Lesbian Vampire Killers Lesbian Vampire Killers is a 2009 British comedy horror film written by Stewart Williams and Paul Hupfield, produced by Steve Clark-Hall and directed by Phil Claydon.- Plot :... |
Lotte | |
| 2009 | City Rats City Rats City Rats is a black comedy feature film, released on April 24, 2009 and starring Tamer Hassan, Ray Panthaki, Susan Lynch, Kenny Doughty, MyAnna Buring, James Lance and Natasha Williams and Danny Dyer.-Cast:* Tamer Hassan as Jimbo Jones... |
Sammy | |
| 2009 | Sam | ||
| 2010 | Comedy Lab Comedy Lab Comedy Lab is a British television series which showcases pilots of experimental comedy shows. Series have been aired irregularly on Channel 4 and E4 since 1998.... |
Inga | TV series, episode "Filth" |
| 2010 | Witchville Witchville (film) Witchville is a 2010 made for television fantasy-adventure film based on witchcraft in a medieval feudal time period, written by John Werner and Amy Krell, and directed by Pearry Reginald Teo. The film was released and distributed by Syfy Network and it stars Luke Goss, Sarah Douglas, MyAnna Buring... |
Jozefa | TV movie |
| 2010 | Angela | ||
| 2010 | Half Hearted | Lauren | |
| 2010 | Inspector George Gently | Adriana Doyle | TV series, episode "Peace & Love" |
| 2010 | Any Human Heart Any Human Heart (TV series) Any Human Heart is a 2010 BAFTA award–winning TV adaptation of the novel Any Human Heart by William Boyd. It was announced in April 2010 and broadcast in four parts from 21 November to 12 December 2010 on Channel 4 in the UK and in three parts during February 2011 on the PBS series Masterpiece in... |
Ingeborg | TV series, episode #1.4 |
| 2011 | Au Revoir Monkeys | Anna | |
| 2011 | Super Eruption | Claire | TV movie |
| 2011 | Way of the Morris | Voice of the Will-O'-Wisps | |
| 2011 | Kill List Kill List Kill List is 2011 British horror film from Ben Wheatley, starring Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley and MyAnna Buring. When a British soldier returns home from Kiev, he joins an old friend as contract killers. His disturbed past surfaces as he spins out of control during jobs and ominous employers... |
Shel | |
| 2011 | Tanya | ||
| 2012 | White Heat | Lilly | TV series, 6 episodes filming |
| 2012 | Tanya | post-production | |