Declan de Barra and Lauren Schmidt Hissrich will soon release The Witcher: Blood Origin, a fantasy miniseries based on the Andrzej Sapkowski book series of the same name. As a precursor to the Netflix series, it will be available. The 1st episode of the four-episode season will air on December 25, 2022.
Blood Origin will show how the first Witcher was made and how the “Conjunction of the Spheres” came to be 1,200 years before the events of The Witcher television series. It will also look at the latter days of the ancient Elven civilization.
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So, who are the actors in this fantastic series? Let’s get them to know better!
Michelle Yeoh
Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng was born on August 6, 1962. She became well-known in the 1990s after performing stunts for various Hong Kong action films, including Police Story 3: Supercop (1992), Yes, Madam (1985), and Holy Weapon (1993). Michelle Khan was her screen name in her early Hong Kong movies.
Her performances in the martial arts movie Hidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger brought her widespread acclaim (2000). She was nominated for Best Actress at the BAFTAs for the latter role.
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Kung Fu Panda 2, Reign of Assassins (2010), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016), and The Lady (2011), in which she played Aung San Suu Kyi, are some of Yeoh’s other films. She later played a supporting role in the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and Last Christmas (2019), as well as Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings from the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2021.
Sophia Brown
Sophia Monique Brown (born 1991–1992) is a British actress who has recurring roles in the Netflix fantasy series The Witcher: Blood Origin in 2022, as well as in the films Giri/Haji (2019), The Capture (2020), and Marcella and Clique (2018).
Brown was a Northampton native. She completed her education at the Identity School of Acting in Brixton, the Arts Educational Schools in London, and the Ivana Chubbuck Studio, in addition to training in ballet, jazz, and modern dance. Since 2015, she has performed with the Theo Adams Company.
Joey Batey
Sophia Monique Brown (born 1991–1992) is a British actress who has recurring roles in the Netflix fantasy series The Witcher: Blood Origin in 2022, as well as in the films Giri/Haji (2019), The Capture (2020), and Marcella and Clique (2018).
Brown was a Northampton native. She completed her education at the Identity School of Acting in Brixton, the Arts Educational Schools in London, and the Ivana Chubbuck Studio, in addition to receiving training in ballet, jazz, and modern dance. Since 2015, she has performed with the Theo Adams Company.
Laurence O’Fuarain
Irish actor Laurence O’Fuarain has been in the films Vikings, Into the Badlands, and Game of Thrones Rebellion (2016). He will play the warrior Fjall in the upcoming Netflix miniseries The Witcher: Blood Origin in 2022.
At the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Laurence O’Fuarain studied advertising and marketing. He became involved in the production of a few short films that he liked. He made the decision to leave the ITT to focus on acting after a successful audition for admission to the Bow Street Academy. O’Fuarain, who graduated from the Dublin-based Bow Street Academy’s screen acting program in 2014, belonged to the same alumnae class as Niamh Algar.
Jacob Collins-Levy
Australian actor Jacob Collins-Levy has been in the films Glitch (2015), True History of the Kelly Gang and Bloom (2019), as well as Young Wallander and The Liberator (2020). The White Princess (2017), in which Jodie Comer portrayed Henry VII’s wife, Elizabeth of York, is where he achieved his greatest fame.
Collins-Levy will feature in The Witcher: Blood Origin, which will be broadcast on Netflix on December 25, Christmas Day, 2022, as Eredin Bréacc Glas, the captain of the Red Riders.
Mirren Mack
Mirren Mack, a Scottish actress, born in 1997, will play Princess Merwyn in the upcoming Netflix miniseries The Witcher: Blood Origin in December 2022. She previously played Kaya in the BBC drama The Nest, Florence in Sex Education, and Queenie in the National Theatre’s 2022 production of Small Island.
Jodie Turner-Smith
Jodie Turner-Smith is a British actress and model who was born on September 7, 1986. She has appeared in films such as The Last Ship (2017), Queen & Slim (2019), Nightflyers (2018), and Without Remorse (2021).
Turner-Smith was born in Peterborough, England, to Jamaican parents; she is the only sibling born outside Jamaica. She was born in Peterborough and lived there until she was ten. She immigrated to the United States with her brother, mother and half-sister after her parents divorced, settling in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Turner-Smith studied finance at the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 2008 and working for a bank. She has been a resident of Los Angeles since 2009.
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