Anita Briem and Anisa Butt
Anita Briem hails from Iceland. Anita Briesm, an Icelandic actress, is famous for her role as Jane Seymour (the young woman who would later become the wife to Henry VIII) in the television show The Tudors. Also for the character of Hannah in the film Journey to the Center of the Earth. Briem began her acting journey at age 9 in the National Theater in Iceland. In her early years as a child actor, she appeared in a variety of plays in radio and television shows in her native Iceland. Briem was able to move to London in the year he turned 16 and took part in a play production that was staged at The New End Theater called Lenin in Love. Briem was a graduate of his school, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1921 and received the John Barton Prize and a Diploma in Drama. Briem was a part of a variety of productions at RADA including The Cherry Garden, by Anton Chekhov, and Bernarda Alba's House, written composed by Federico Garcia Lorca. Briem continues to work in London after gradu