By The fifth and final season of The Witcher has been wrapped since late last year and it’s been a long period of complete silence from Netflix about it. Since then we’ve confirmed that the new season would be delayed until 2027 with no concrete release date so far.
Still, in that time, we’ve learned over 35 actors who we’ll see in the final season of The Witcher.
We’ll keep updating the list as we go.
Ellie Taylor as Duchess Anna Henrietta
Ellie Taylor is a comedian, writer and actress, who recently starred in such projects as Ted Lasso, Knuckles and Plebs.
In the final season of The Witcher, Taylor will portray Anna Henrietta, duchess of Toussaint. A fan-favorite character that was made quite popular by The Witcher 3’s Blood & Wine expansion.
Emily-Jo Young as Shani
Emily-Jo Young is an up-and-coming young actress with stage experience who recently kicked off a career or television with a role in Sexy Beast. Now, Young has been cast in The Witcher, portraying a character who has become a fan favorite following the Witcher video game trilogy.
Young will portray Shani, who in the books was a field medic and a former lover of Geralt’s, whom she met during her medical studies in Oxenfurt.
Kate Dickie as Sigrdrifa
Kate Dickie is an experienced and established British actress. Best known for her role as Lysa Arryn in Game of Thrones. Dickie has appeared in many other films and television series, including Red Road, Prometheus, The Witch, The Alienist, and Loki.
For The Witcher Season 5, Dickie has been cast as Sigrdrifa, a Priestess of the goddess Freya on Hindarsfjall, the smallest of the Isles of Skellige. In the books, Sigrdrifa meets a distraught Yennefer and helps her find her center.
Liv Andrusier as Condwiramurs Tilly
Liv Andrusier is an up-and-coming young actress with experience on stage, television, and in the feature film Les Misérables.
In The Witcher Season 5, Andrusier was cast as Condwiramurs Tilly, the young apprentice of the Lady of the Lake, Nimue, who we’ve already met in Season 4. When we last saw Nimue, she was a young girl who became obsessed with the legendary tales of Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri and felt that she had a role to play in that story. Condwiramurs will meet her many years later, and together the two will continue Nimue’s quest.
Naomi Battrick as Meena Coehoorn
Naomi Battrick is an experienced young actress best known for her recurring role in Jamestown, where she portrayed Jocelyn. Battrick’s other projects include The Serpent Queen, Words of War, and His Dark Materials.
In Season 5 of The Witcher, Battrick will portray Meena Coehoorn, a gender-swapped version of the books’ Nilfgaardian general named Menno Coehoorn.
Camilla Beeput as Matilda de Nemeth-Uyvar
Camilla Beeput is a British actress who has starred in such projects as Dune: Prophecy, Bergerac, A Gentleman in Moscow and more.
In the first episodes of The Witcher Season 5, she’ll play Marchioness Matilda de Nemeth-Uyvar, a regular in Dominik Houvenaghel fighting pits, where Ciri has been taken by Leo Bonhart.
Lee Ingleby as Jan Cronin
Lee Ingleby is a British actor who can be seen in such projects as The Cuckoo, The A Word and Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban.
In the beginning of The Witcher Season 5, he’ll portray Jan Cronin, the governor of the beekeepers who helps Geralt and his crew.
Andy Apollo as Reynart de Bois-Fresnes
Andy Apollo is an up-and-coming young actor who has already had roles in many large productions, including 1917, Murder on the Orient Express, Black Mirror, and Pennyworth, among others.
For The Witcher Season 5, Apollo has been cast in the role of Reynart de Bois-Fresnes, also known as The Chequered Knight, one of the knights errant in the Duchy of Toussaint. Geralt and his Hansa spend some time in Toussaint, and that’s where they’ll meet Reynart.
Giannini Hemmings as Ihuarraquax
Giannini Hemmings is a writer and post-production coordinator on the show who will make his character debut in The Witcher Season 5. In it, he’ll be the voice of the unicorn Ihuarraquax.
It’s likely Ihuarraquax is the same unicorn we saw in Season 3 with Ciri in the desert. He certainly was in the books, but in the Netflix show, that isn’t confirmed yet.
Adam Basil as a Knocker
Adam Basil is an experienced actor specializing in creature work, meaning he often portrays very large and scary monsters with the help of visual effects, prosthetics, or motion capture. His roles include shows such as The Last of Us, Game of Thrones, and The Gentlemen, as well as feature films like Django and The Northman.
In Season 5 of The Witcher, Basil will portray a Knocker, one of the monsters Geralt will run into in an early episode of Season 5. Knockers are giant humanoids who dwell in caves rich with minerals and metals, often known to pester miners. In the books, Geralt meets a Knocker in a cave, where he also meets Avallac’h.
Taylor James as Baron de Trastamara
Taylor James is an experienced young actor who has already starred in a key role in Vikings: Valhalla, where he portrayed Batu. His other projects include Samson, The Beekeeper, and Justice League.
James has been cast as Baron de Trastamara, a baron in the Duchy of Toussaint who meets Geralt and his Hansa. The baron will develop a friendship and romance with Milva (Meng’er Zhang) during their stay in Toussaint.
Chike Chan as Old Barring
Chike Chan is an experienced actor with roles in films such as Batman Begins and Everest, as well as television series such as Andor and The Stranger.
In Season 5 of The Witcher, Chan has been cast in the role of Old Barring, Milva’s biological father, who is a nice man as opposed to her abusive adopted father, who we saw in Season 4.
Sam Pamphilon as Cyprian Fripp
Sam Pamphilon is an experienced actor with roles in shows such as Malice, Geek Girl, and Smothered, among other projects.
In The Witcher Season 5, Pamphilon will portray Cyprian Fripp, a mercenary at the service of Stefan Skellen, hired for Skellen’s hunt for Ciri. In an iconic scene in the books, Ciri finds him at an inn during Savoine Eve, and you can guess what happens next.
Yinka Awoni as Zadarlik
Yinka Awoni is a British actor that can be seen in such projects as The Stranger, The Rook and more.
In The Witcher Season 5, he’ll portray Zadarlik, another member of Stefan Skellen’s crew who go after Ciri. Just like Cyprian Fripp above, he doesn’t get a happy ending.
Nick Chadwin as Gosta
Nick Chadwin is an actor with experience in film and television, with roles in Emmerdale Farm, A is for Acid, and Asylum.
In The Witcher Season 5, Chadwin will portray Gosta, a fisherman who will run into Ciri in the wintery Hundred Lakes as she searches for Tor Zirael, the Tower of the Swallow. Gosta will quickly understand Ciri is being pursued by dangerous people.
Neil Stuke as “Barcelona”
Neil Stuke is a British actor who can be seen in such recent projects as Hijack, Grandtchester, This England and more.
His role in The Witcher Season 5 isn’t clear, but we know he’s involved in Ciri’s storyline and his codename is “Barcelona“.
Jamie Michie as Dromgool
Jamie Michie is a Scottish actor who can be seen in such projects as Game of Thrones, Hijack, Karen Pirie and more.
His character in The Witcher Season 5 is a mystery. He’s either named of codenamed Dromgool. Could he be the Fisher King or a new Crach an Craite? Only time will tell.
Bobby Rainsbury as Gunhild
Bobby Rainsbury is a young Scottish actress whose projects include Outlander: Blood of my Blood, Dept. Q, The Death of Bunny Munro and more.
In The Witcher Season 5, she’ll play a character called Gunhild, obviously a skelligan.
Adam Trussell as Vifindir
Adam Trussell is an actor whose credits include Vikings: Bloodlust, Clayface, How to Train Your Dragon 2 and more.
He’ll play Vifindir in The Witcher Season 5. Like Gunhild, obviously a skelligan.
Simon Meackock as Aeric
Simon Meacock is an actor whose credits include Fantastic Beasts, The Girlfriend, The Killing Kind and more.
In The Witcher Season 5 he’ll play a character named Aeric.
Ben Jones as Arav
Ben Jones is an actor whose credits include 640 episodes in Doctors as well as MobLand, Tell Me Everything and more.
In The Witcher Season 5, he’ll play a character called Arav.
Tega Alexander as Captain Stade
Tega Alexander is an up-and-coming actor whose credits include MobLand as well as the upcoming fifth season on Bridgerton.
In The Witcher Season 5 he’ll play Captain Stade.
Jenny Bolt as Monika
Jenny Bolt is an actress whose credits include Staying Alive, London’s Burning and more.
In The Witcher Season 5 she’ll play a character named Monika.
Tatjana Nardone as Elora
Tatjana Nardone is an Irish-Italian actress whose credits include The Winter King, Devils, Medici and more.
In The Witcher Season 5, she’ll play Elora.
Claire Cogan as Kareena
Claire Cogan is an actress whose credits include House of the Dragon, Sex Education and more.
Her role in The Witcher Season 5 is Kareena.
Riley Woodford as Tavish
Riley Woodford is a young actors whose credits include Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Mum.
His role in The Witcher Season 5 is Tavish.
Nadia Albina as Peggy
Nadia Albina is an actress whose credits include Black Doves, Bookish, A Thousand Blows and more.
In The Witcher Season 5 she’ll play a character named Peggy.
Fergus Rattigan as Paddy the Dwarf
Fergus Rattigan is an actor whose credits include A Fistful of Free Speech as well as the new Harry Potter audiobooks.
In The Witcher Season 5, he’ll play Paddy the Dwarf.
Georgia Goodman as Madam Therese
Georgia Goodman is an actress whose credits include Wednesday, We Might Regret This, The Running Man and more.
In The Witcher Season 5, she’ll play Madam Therese, who sounds potentially a brothel madam in Toussaint.
Max Hutchinson as Elder Logen
Max Hutchinson is an actor whose credits include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Downton Abbey and more.
His role in The Witcher Season 5 is Elder Logen.
Leon Cain as Mikel
Leon Cain is an actor whose credits include Lure, Amped and more.
In The Witcher Season 5, he’ll play Mikel.
Warren James Dunning in an unknown series regular role
Warren James Dunning is an actor whose credits include Wreck, Viewpoint, Damned and more.
His role in The Witcher Season 5 is unknown, but we know he’ll be a series regular.
Una Byrne in an unknown role
Una Byrne is an actress that can be seen in such projects as Kojja as well as many stage productions in the UK.
Her role in The Witcher Season 5 is unknown.
Laurie Duncan in an unknown role
Laurie Duncan is an actor who can be seen in such projects as Warfare, Fuze, Hollyoaks and more.
His role in The Witcher Season 5 is unknown.
Adam Sina in an unknown role
Adam Sina is an actor whose credits include Tyrant, Throdosia, Jesus: His Life and more.
His role in The Witcher Season 5 is unknown.
Jamael Westman in an unknown role
Jamael Westman is an actor whose credits include The Essex Serpent, Star Wars: Starfighter, Necromunda: Hired Gun and more.
His role in The Witcher Season 5 is unknown.
Poppy Lee Friar in an unknown role
Poppy Lee Friar is a young actress with a lot of experience in film and television. Her early acting credits include a starring role in Eve, as well as roles in Domino Day: Lone Witch, and In My Skin. She has also done voice acting for Starfield and Elden Ring.
In The Witcher Season 5, Friar has been cast in a currently unconfirmed role.
CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 4 is in full production targeting 2028 with The Witcher 3‘s Songs of the Past expansion expedted in 2027. The Witcher Season 5 is in post-production for a 2027 release. Andrzej Sapkowski’s new Witcher book Crossroads of Ravens is available internationally since September 30, 2025.
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