Anna Daniels
Outside of worlds populated by witches, aliens, and would-be girlfriends, Shaffer has mostly been left with minor roles. She had a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it part on two episodes of the widely praised BBC drama Fearless in 2017, and before The Witcher, she popped up in the background of the widely lambasted British action movie I Am Vengeance.
However, Shaffer managed to make a mark on a super-melodramatic TV series. She played yet another troublemaker with a deeply hidden heart of gold when she took on the role of rebellious bully Ruby Button on the British daily soap opera Hollyoaks from 2011 to 2014, returning for four guest appearances in 2017 and 2018. In typical soap fashion, Shaffer’s Ruby went through a lot during her brief stint on Hollyoaks: a hit-and-run in which she was the passenger, a foiled elopement that ended in her fiancé’s death, social exile on account of all the bullying she masterminded, a cocaine-induced heart attack, and a new life in Spain. It almost makes dealing with the respective armies of Voldemort, the Shadow Kin, and the Nilfgaard seem like a cakewalk.
Written by: Looper
