Vanessa Kirby is an English actress. She rose to fame due to the portayal of Princess Margaret in the Netflix series «The Crown».
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- Her full name is Vanessa Nuala Kirby.
- She was born on 18th of April 1988.
- Her zodiac sign is Aries.
- She made her professional acting debut on stage with a production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (2010).
- Her debut was followed by acclaimed performances in the plays A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010), As You Like It (2010), Women Beware Women (2011), Three Sisters (2012), and as Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (2014).
- Kirby made her film debut with a minor role in the crime drama The Rise (2012).
- She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Princess Margaret in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2016–2017).
- For her performance as Princess Margaret she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.
- She took on roles in the action films Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) and Hobbs & Shaw (2019).
- For her performance as a grief-stricken young 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.
- Vanessa was raised in Wimbledon, London, England (within earshot of the famous tennis games).
- Father is urologist and prostate surgeon Roger Kirby.
- Mother is a former editor of Country Living magazine.
- Shares a flat with her sister Juliet, a theatrical agent, and best friend in London’s Tooting district.
- Nominated for the 2018 Emmy Award in the Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category for her role as Princess Margaret in The Crown (2016), but lost to Thandiwe Newton from Westworld (2016).
- At school she was a victim of frequent bullying.
- During one of the previews of the play “Julie” in 2018 in which she played the title role, a fight broke out between two men in the balcony circle during the applause at the end. One of the men tried to push the other over the balcony railing (Lyttleton Theatre, London).
- In 2015, Kirby appeared in Everest as American socialite Sandy Hill Pittman, The Dresser.
- In May of that year, was cast as Princess Margaret in Netflix’s first original British series The Crown. H
- er selection came after a six-month search.
- She played Elena in Robert Icke’s production of Uncle Vanya at the Almeida Theatre in 2016, for which she won rave reviews, with Matt Trueman of Variety writing: “Kirby is a superlative Elena: lithe, fickle, hypocritical, shallow and yet always sympathetic. It’s a performance that confirms her as the outstanding stage actress of her generation, capable of the most unexpected choices.”
- Throughout the late 2010s, Kirby appeared in several film such as John Boorman’s sequel to his Hope and Glory (1987), Queen and Country (2014), the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending (2015), and Kill Command (2016).
- She has two siblings, Joe and Juliet.
- Actors Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave were family friends.
- After attending Lady Eleanor Holles School and being turned down by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, she took a gap year to travel.
- When she came back she studied English at the University of Exeter.
- In 2011, Kirby had her TV debut on The Hour, which was a BBC drama that revolved around the dispatch of another present issues TV appear at the hour of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution.
- Altogether, she showed up for three scenes as a character named Ruth Elms, which was not an especially significant role but rather in any case made ready for further appearances in a further series.
- IIn 2022, she replaced Jodie Comer as Empress Josephine in the upcoming historical drama film Napoleon opposite Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon, directed by Ridley Scott.
- Kirby co-founded the London-based production company Aluna Entertainment, which has a first look deal with Netflix.
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