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Vanessa Kirby

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Vanessa Kirby is an English stage, TV, and film actress. From 2016 to 2018, Kirby portrayed Princess Margaret in Peter Morgan's Netflix series The Crown (2016), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Television Series in 2018. She starred as Estella in the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations, Joanna in Richard Curtis' romantic comedy About Time (2013) and Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018). She is known mostly for her stage work, having won acclaim and awards for various productions, including Streetcar Named Desire with Ben Foster which transferred to New York; with Variety in 2016 called her "the outstanding stage actress of her generation, capable of the most unexpected choices." After MI6, she had a leading role in another action blockbuster, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
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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 [2019].
Vanessa was raised in Wimbledon, London, England (within earshot of the famous tennis games).
Father is urologist and prostate surgeon Roger Kirby.
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).

[on her role in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)] I'm so not an action-movie type. I'm a theater nerd from London! But you want a lot of different experiences as an actor. As many as possible.
It's not the big American films that I want to do. It's the independent American cinema, directors like Charlie Kaufman, Drake Doremus, and Derek Cianfrance. Equally there are many Europeans, like Paolo Sorrentino, that I'm completely obsessed with. So I think you have to find your tribe in a way.
You can choose to be a horrible, mean parent to yourself or you can choose to be a kind, compassionate one. You have a choice between one or the other. But the natural tendency is to lean towards being the horrible, mean parent towards ourselves. The work every day is to move towards being the real, compassionate and kind one who is really forgiving, I think. And you really need to monitor which parent you are being to yourself.
I think my natural home was always the stage. I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly I've changed. But film is also a craft and you have to learn screen acting and I've always felt that it's also the kind of place that you have to do time, much like when you're on stage.

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