Francesca Mills

Francesca Mills (born 1998) is a British actress having played roles as Cherry Dorrington in television drama series Harlots (2019-2020) as Earthy Mangold in Worzel Gummidge (2021) and as Meldorf in The Witcher: Blood Origin (2021)

Early life
Francesca Mills currently resides in London (2021), but was brought up in Loggerheads, Staffordshire. At a young age, Mills learned to dance at the Jill Clewes Dance School in Bradwell, Staffordshire, and her first taste of acting was in a production of Oliver! at the age of eight. Mills was a student at Madeley High School in Madeley, Staffordshire. She also travelled to London to attend the Urdang Academy in Islington, and was a student at the Academy of Theatre Arts in Worcester.

Career
In 2014, Mills joined Warwick Davis's "Reduced Height Theatre Company" for their very first production of See How They Run at the Richmond Theatre. In 2017, Mills was nominated for the Ian Charleson Awards for her performance as Maria in The Government Inspector at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. The same year, Mills played a seamstress in the Timothy Sheader directed production of A Tale of Two Cities at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. In 2019, Mills played multiple roles in The American Clock at The Old Vic in 2019. The same year, Mills a national tour production of Emma Rice musical version of the Enid Blyton story Malory Towers. From 2018 to 2019, Mills starred Cherry Dorrington in series 2 and 3 of Harlots with co-stars Eloise Smyth and Samantha Morton, and as Earthy Mangold in Worzel Gummidge alongside Mackenzie Crook.

In August 2021, Mills began filming of the Netflix miniseries The Witcher: Blood Origin,  set in a time 1200 years before The Witcher, and Mills will appear in a as Meldorf, a fearless assassin, in a cast which includes Lenny Henry and Michelle Yeoh