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Buring at the British Independent Film Awards 2014
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Born |
MyAnna Margaretha Buring Rantapää 22 September 1979 Sundsvall, Sweden |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2004–present |
MyAnna Buring (Swedish: [ˌmʏˈanˈna ˈbʉːˈrɪŋ]; born MyAnna Margaretha Buring Rantapää; 22 September 1979) is a Swedish actress, known for her roles in The Descent, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and Part 2 and Ripper Street.
Buring was born 22 September 1979, in Sundsvall, Sweden, as MyAnna Margaretha Buring Rantapää, but grew up in the Middle East.
She attended secondary school at the American British Academy in Muscat, Oman, with her childhood friend Stegath Dorr, who is a character actor and a prolific horror filmmaker.
When she turned 16, she moved to Great Britain and graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2004. She is the associate director of the MahWaff Theatre Company.
In 2006, Buring guest-starred in "The Impossible Planet", 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.