Anna Daniels
2019 was a massive year for Ndiweni, as she not only took her spotlight-grabbing turn as Fringilla on The Witcher, but she also appeared in Disney and Lucasfilm’s highly anticipated (and ultimately highly divisive) Skywalker saga-ending film The Rise of Skywalker. Ndiweni’s role in the movie keeps her mostly in the background, as she plays one of many Resistance fighters, but the actress seems to have enjoyed her experience nonetheless. She wrote on Instagram that eagle-eyed viewers will be able to spot her “running round the galaxy in a bright orange suit,” and thanked director J.J. Abrams and casting director Nina Gold “for making a Star Wars set my playground for a bit.”
Moving away from Star Wars but staying within the realm of super famous sci-fi franchises, Ndiweni has completed an important rite of passage for all British actors. She appeared on a 2017 episode of Doctor Who as Abby, one of the four Ganymede employees to survive the suit-shutdown on the fifth episode of season 10, “Oxygen,” opposite Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor. In case you’re keeping score, this makes The Witcher her third geekery-gone-mainstream hit.
Written by: Looper
