14 Facts About Freya Allan

Freya Allan was born on 6 September 2001 and is an English actress.

Freya Allan is best known for her role as Princess Cirilla of Cintra in the Netflix series The Witcher, for which she was nominated for two Saturn Awards.

Freya Allan appears as young Sam in the 2021 film Gunpowder Milkshake, as the younger version of The Widow in the AMC series Into the Badlands, and as Mae in the film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

Freya Allan's parents separated when she was one and she lived with her mother in Australia and the French Pyrenees, where she attended a French-language school before returning to Oxford; she now lives in London.

At school Freya Allan studied drama and ballet and was part of the company in a touring production of Rapunzel at age eleven.

Freya Allan starred in two short films, Bluebird and The Christmas Tree produced by National Film and Television School and later performed the part of Linda in the short film Captain Fierce, produced by Bournemouth Film School.

Freya Allan played a minor role in the first episode of the 2019 BBC drama The War of the Worlds.

Freya Allan, who was originally cast as a one-off character before being recast as Ciri, lived in Budapest, Hungary for eight months during the filming of the first series.

Freya Allan reprised the role of Ciri for the second series, which was produced in London in early 2020 and released in 2021 on Netflix.

Freya Allan has twice been nominated for Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor for her performance as Ciri.

In 2021, Freya Allan played the lead role in the horror film Baghead, directed by Alberto Corredor and co-starring Ruby Barker.

In 2023, Freya Allan filmed Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes in Australia, playing Mae, one of the few human characters who appear in the film.

Freya Allan was later cast in Triton, directed by Janell Shirtcliff and filmed in Greece in early 2024.

Freya Allan has been reported to be attached to play Marianne Faithfull in a biographical film of the singer.