Branko

Overview

Branko is a character confirmed to appear in The Witcher IV. His name was first reported in November 2024 via casting information associated with the game. The character is played by Jake Lampert, an actor whose credits include Andor and Call the Midwife.

Voice Actor

Branko is voiced by Jake Lampert. The casting credit was identified through public motion-capture and voice-acting credits associated with The Witcher IV. Beyond the casting confirmation, CD Projekt Red has not released in-game footage of the character.

Name and Origin

Branko is a Slavic name. By naming convention, that suggests a character drawn from the Northern Kingdoms cultural region of the setting rather than Nilfgaard or Skellige, both of which use distinct naming patterns. The Witcher IV is set in Kovir, a northern realm of the setting, so a Northern-Kingdoms-coded character would be at home there. This is an inference from naming, not a CDPR statement about the character's origin.

Role

CD Projekt Red has not disclosed Branko's specific role in The Witcher IV. The character could be a quest-giver, a recurring companion, an antagonist, or a one-off NPC; nothing in the publicly available material yet narrows this down. Until the studio shows in-game footage or releases a character bio, the wiki cannot describe what Branko does in the story.

Production Context

The same public casting profile that surfaced Branko's name also listed Kate Saxon as the director Lampert worked under. Saxon's discipline is voice and performance capture direction rather than cinematic direction, and she has worked with the studio on and off since the late 2000s. Because this detail comes from an actor's own listing and not from a studio announcement, it is best read as a strong indication of who ran his sessions rather than a confirmed production credit.

What Is Known and What Is Not

Confirmed: the character exists in The Witcher IV, and the voice actor is Jake Lampert. Reported but never announced by the studio: that Kate Saxon directed his performance. Not confirmed: Branko's species, affiliation, alignment, relationship to Ciri, appearance in cinematic versus gameplay scenes, or scope of involvement. As more details about The Witcher IV are revealed, Branko's place in the story should become clearer.