She is known for playing Fringilla Vigo in Netflix's The Witcher,[1] Tilly Brockless in the television series Mr Selfridge,[2] and Ester/Jekasai in the stage production of The Convert at The Gate Theatre in London.

[3] She has also appeared on film in Catherine Called Birdy, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Cinderella and The Legend of Tarzan.

Khayisa was also featured as One to Watch by the Independent in 2013[5] and was on the Evening Standard's Stars of 2015 list[6] after performing in the RSC's Midsummer Mischief Festival.

[8] Khayisa grew up in Guildford, Surrey and started acting as a teenager, joining the Yvonne Arnaud Mill Street Studios while she was in secondary school.

Khayisa toured North America with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2018, playing the part of Cordelia in King Lear in New York,[13] and Ophelia in Hamlet in Washington DC.