Francesca Mills

Mills was born with the genetic disorder Achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism.[3]

As of 2021, Mills lives in London,[4] but was brought up in Loggerheads, Staffordshire.[2] Mills learned to dance at the Jill Clewes Dance School in Bradwell, Staffordshire,[2] and first acted in a production of Oliver! at the age of nine.[5] Mills was a student at Madeley High School in Madeley, Staffordshire.[2] She also travelled to London to attend the Urdang Academy in Islington, and was a student at the Academy of Theatre Arts in Worcester.[4]

In 2014, Mills joined Warwick Davis's Reduced Height Theatre Company for its first production, a revival of See How They Run, at the Richmond Theatre.[1] In 2017, Mills was nominated for the Ian Charleson Awards for her performance as Maria in The Government Inspector at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.[4] 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.[6] In 2019, Mills played multiple roles in The American Clock at The Old Vic in 2019.[5] The same year, Mills was in a national tour production of the Emma Rice version of the Malory Towers musical.[7] From 2018 to 2019, Mills starred as 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.[4]

In August 2021, Mills began filming the Netflix miniseries The Witcher: Blood Origin,[8] set in a time 1,200 years before The Witcher. Mills appears as Meldof, an assassin, in a cast which includes Lenny Henry and Michelle Yeoh.[9] The miniseries aired on Netflix on 25 December 2022.[10]

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