How to play character animations in cine camera actor view and during renders

Hello lovely Unreal community!
I am rendering a couple of shots in a pre-made space, using a UE5 mannequin with Mixamo animations on it.
When I preview my shots my animation on the Character is static, while viewing it through the cine camera viewport. I can only see my character animated, when I press play, but then it’s a third person mode, which let’s me fly around, but essentially i have cameras set up and animated for rendering and a character set-up. As I’m only doing cinematics from unreal and not shipping the game.
Thank you all!