Vanessa Kirby
English actress celebrated for her BAFTA-winning role in The Crown and her Academy Award-nominated performance in Pieces of a Woman.
Vanessa Kirby - Personal Information
- Name: Vanessa Kirby
- Date of Birth: April 18, 1988
- Place of Birth: Wimbledon, London, England, UK
- Gender: Female
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Producer, Executive Producer, Thanks
Biography
Vanessa Nuala Kirby is an English actress. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Princess Margaret in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2016–2017), for which she won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress. For her performance in the film Pieces of a Woman (2020), she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Kirby 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). She also appeared in the action films Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), Hobbs & Shaw (2019), and The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025), and portrayed Empress Joséphine in the historical drama Napoleon (2023).
Selected Filmography
A selection of Vanessa Kirby's most notable screen appearances across film and television.
- Avengers: Secret Wars (2027) as Sue Storm / The Invisible Woman
- Avengers: Doomsday (2026) as Sue Storm / The Invisible Woman
- Night Always Comes (2025) as Lynette
- The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025) as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman
- Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere (2025) as Self - 'Sue Storm' / 'Invisible Woman'
- Eden (2025) as Dore Strauch Ritter
- Napoleon (2023) as Josephine Bonaparte
- Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) as The White Widow
- The Son (2022) as Beth
- Italian Studies (2022) as Alina Reynolds
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