Vanessa Kirby

Acting · Born 1988-04-18 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK

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…

Filmography

• About Time as Joanna
• The Fantastic 4: First Steps as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman
• Me Before You as Alicia Dawares
• Mission: Impossible - Fallout as The White Widow
• The World to Come as Tallie
• Pieces of a Woman as Martha Weiss
• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One as The White Widow
• Charlie Countryman as Felicity
• Jupiter Ascending as Katharine Dunlevy
• The Rise as Nicola

TV

• The Crown as Princess Margaret
• Agatha Christie's Poirot as Celia Ravenscroft
• The Crown as Young Princess Margaret (archive footage)
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
• The Oscars as Self
• Great Expectations as Estella
• Labyrinth as Alice Tanner
• The Hour as Ruth Elms
• The Frankenstein Chronicles as Lady Jemima Hervey
• The Graham Norton Show as Self