Riann Steele

May 23, 1987 · London, United Kingdom

Riann Steele is an English actress.

After studying at Arts Educational Schools, London, she appeared in various Royal Shakespeare Company productions, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labours Lost and Hamlet (including its subsequent BBC television film adaptation in 2009) alongside David Tennant. From 2009 to 2010, she played Nurse Lauren Minster in Holby City. Her first feature film role was opposite Aidan Gillen in 2010's Treacle Jr.. In 2012, she starred in the film Sket as Shaks, the girlfriend of a violent gang leader portrayed by Ashley Walters, and in Doctor Who (series 7) as Queen Nefertiti. She has also appeared as Cleo, a therapist, in the Channel 4/Netflix comedy series Lovesick and also appeared as Sydney Halliday in four episodes of NCIS: New Orleans Season 4.

Notable work

6.9
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
as Catherine Starr
7.6
The Blacklist (2013)
as Anna Cartwright
7.6
Doctor Who (2005)
as Queen Nefertiti
8.4
Legacies (2018)
as Ablah
7.6
The Magicians (2015)
as Merritt and as Plum Chatwin
7.6
Misfits (2009)
as Naomi
7.3
NCIS: New Orleans (2014)
as Sydney Halliday

Often works with

Antonia Thomas
2 titles together
Misfits, Lovesick
Ray Panthaki
2 titles together
Life of Crime, One Crazy Thing

Full filmography · 18

Debris
as Finola Jones
20217.1
Legacies
as Ablah
20188.4
Crazyhead
as Suzanne
20166.5
The Magicians
as Merritt and as Plum Chatwin
20157.6
Critical
as Clover
2015
Lovesick
as Cleo
20147.2
NCIS: New Orleans
as Sydney Halliday
20147.3
The Blacklist
as Anna Cartwright
20137.6
Life of Crime
as Paula Merris
2013
In the Flesh
as Lisa Lancaster
20137.2
Misfits
as Naomi
20097.6
Doctor Who
as Queen Nefertiti
20057.6