Emma Jill Appleton was born and raised in the town of Witney, Oxfordshire, England and attended West Witney Primary School and then Wood Green School. Appleton began a modeling career as a teenager, which naturally progressed to acting in 2017 when an opportunity opened for the cast of the BBC Three series Clique where she played the role of Fay Brookstone for 6 episodes. Her next major role was playing Feef Symonds in six episodes of Channel 4’s spy thriller Traitors in 2019.
Appleton landed a role as Princess Renfri, alongside Henry Cavill in the Netflix fantasy drama series The Witcher, created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich adapted from The Witcher book series of Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski.
Known For

The Severed Sun
Magpie
2025

The Road Trip
Addie · (6 episodes)
2024

The Killing Kind
Ingrid Lewis · (6 episodes)
2023

LOLA
Thomasina Hanbury
2023

Kotti
Katya

Everything I Know About Love
Maggie · (7 episodes)
2022

Pistol
Nancy Spungen · (6 episodes)
2022

The Last Letter from Your Lover
Hannah
2021

Intergalactic
Mya Miller · (2 episodes)
2021

Making The Witcher
Self - Renfri
2020

The Witcher
Renfri · (2 episodes)
2019

Traitors
Feef Symonds · (6 episodes)
2019

The Nun
Elena (uncredited)
2018

The End of the F***ing World
Kelly · (1 episode)
2017

Genius
Germaine · (2 episodes)
2017

Clique
Fay Brookstone · (12 episodes)
2017

Dreamlands
Pixie
2016

Grantchester
Sally · (1 episode)
2014

The One Show
Self · (1 episode)
2006