Jade Croot

Jade Croot is a Welsh actress who works across stage, television and film. Born in 1999 and from Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, she studied at Merthyr College and the Mark Jermin Stage School before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company at 16. Her early screen work included the science-fiction film The Machine (2013), and she later appeared as Leona Bevan in the Channel 4 drama The Accident and as Princess Adda in The Witcher, a Netflix series. Her credits also take in Pauline Floyd in the BBC One true-crime series Steeltown Murders, The Serpent Queen, the 2024 biblical epic Mary, and the 2025 action romance Sacrifice. She led the 2025 folk horror Rabbit Trap as The Child, a role that brought a long-list mention for a British Independent Film Award in breakthrough performance, and in 2025 Screen International named her a Star of Tomorrow. She appeared as Wainwright in the period action movie The Death of Robin Hood (2026).