Vanessa Kirby

Biography

Vanessa Nuala Kirby (born 18 April 1988) is an English actress. She made her professional acting debut on stage, with acclaimed performances in the plays All My Sons (2010), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2010), Women Beware Women (2011), Three Sisters (2012), and as Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (2014). Kirby rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Princess Margaret in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2016–2017), for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also took on roles in the action films Hobbs & Shaw (2019) and the Mission: Impossible film series since 2018. For her performance as a grief-stricken woman in Pieces of a Woman (2020), she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Kirby has since portrayed Empress Joséphine in the historical drama Napoleon (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Vanessa Kirby, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Me Before You

as Alicia Dewar

About Time

as Joanna

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

as The White Widow

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

as Hattie Shaw

Jupiter Ascending

as Katharine Dunlevy

Everest

as Sandy Hill Pittman

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

as The White Widow

Napoleon

as Josephine Bonaparte

The Crown

as Princess Margaret

Pieces of a Woman

as Martha Weiss