Poppy Drayton

Poppy Drayton is an English actress born in Surrey in 1991. After graduating from the Arts Educational School in Chiswick, she landed her first major part in 2013, playing Elizabeth Thatcher in the Hallmark Channel television movie pilot When Calls the Heart (2013). That same year she appeared in the Downton Abbey Christmas special, and in 2014 she did stage work in The Green Bay Tree at London's Jermyn Street Theatre. Also in 2014 she was cast as Amberle Elessedil, a lead in the MTV fantasy drama The Shannara Chronicles, which premiered in January 2016. She later played the title role in the MVP Studios adaptation The Little Mermaid (2018) and appeared in The Rising Hawk (2019). On television she was a series regular as the witch Abigael in Charmed from 2019 to 2022, and in 2026 she joined the ITV crime drama Professor T as Leonie Vass.