Hiftu Quasem is best known for her role as Misha in Ten Percent (Amazon Prime Video). She has completed filming Something in the Water (Studio Canal), a feature film directed by Hayley Easton-Street. She recently completed another feature film, Sebastian(BFI/Creative Scotland). She is due to star in The Rig S2 (Amazon Prime Video).

Hiftu also appears in The Witcher: Blood Origin and The Witcher S3 (Netflix); Granite Harbour(BBC Scotland); Killing Eve, This is Going to Hurt, Trigonometry, The Nest and Traces (BBC); and Endeavour(ITV).

Hiftu began her career acting in a range of short films such as Tehzeeb and Meet Me By The Water. Her theatre credits include Miss Julie (Perth Theatre at Horsecross Arts/Scottish Tour); Fission (Seven Dials Playhouse); and At Home I Speak (Rich Mix Theatre).