Vanessa Kirby
Vanessa Noola Kirby is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Princess Margaret in The Crown. Kirby is the daughter of former Country Living magazine editor Jane and urologist Roger Kirby. She turned down her place at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
About Vanessa Kirby in brief
Vanessa Noola Kirby is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Princess Margaret in the Netflix historical drama series The Crown. She has also starred in several stage productions, earning three nominations for the Ian Charleson Awards. She gained wider recognition for her roles in the action films Mission: Impossible – Fallout and Hobbs & Shaw. She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in the drama Pieces of a Woman. Kirby is the daughter of former Country Living magazine editor Jane and urologist Roger Kirby.
She also has two siblings, Joe and Juliet. Actors Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave were family friends. Kirby turned down her place at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art after she was signed to a talent agency and met the theatre director David Thacker. She made her television debut in the BBC’s The Hour, alongside Ben Whishaw, Dominic West, and Romola Garai. In 2015, she appeared in Everest as American socialite Sandy Hillman. In 2018, Kirby won the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for 2020.
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