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Introduction
Vanessa Kirby is a British actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, which include a British Academy Television Award, a Volpi Cup Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Kirby made her professional acting debut on stage with a production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (2010), and followed this with 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), winning the Ian Charleson Awards for these performances with Variety describing her as “the outstanding stage actress of her generation, capable of the most unexpected choices.”
She made her film debut with a minor role in the crime drama The Rise (2012) and rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2016–2017), for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
Vanessa Kirby garnered wider recognition with her roles in the action films Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), and Hobbs & Shaw (2019). Her other prominent film roles include About Time (2013), The World to Come (2020), and her performance as a grief-stricken young woman in Pieces of a Woman (2020) for which Kirby received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Early life
| Name | Vanessa Kirby |
| Net Worth | $5 million |
| Profession | Actress |
| Height | 1.73m |
| Age | 33 years |
Vanessa Jane Kirby was born on April 18, 1988 (age 33 years) in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. She is the daughter of former Country Living magazine editor Jane Kirby and urologist Roger Kirby. She has two siblings, Joe Kirby and Juliet Kirby. 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 before studying English at the University of Exeter.
Career
Vanessa 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, who gave her three starring roles over 2009 at the Octagon Theatre Bolton: in All My Sons by Arthur Miller, Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. For All My Sons she won the BIZA Rising Star Award at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards, worth £5,000.
In 2011, Kirby then went on to appear at the National Theatre as Isabella in Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton, directed by Marianne Elliott, alongside Harriet Walter and Harry Melling. She then starred as Rosalind in As You Like It by William Shakespeare at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds; Alfred Hickling of The Guardian described her as a “significant new talent”.
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In 2011, she was in the première of The Acid Test by Anya Reiss at the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Simon Godwin, earning praise for her performance from Paul Taylor of The Independent, who described her as “a star if ever I saw one”. That same year, Kirby made her television debut in the BBC’s The Hour. She played Estella in the BBC’s mini-series adaptation of Great Expectations.
Kirby went on to play Masha in the acclaimed stage production by Benedict Andrews of Three Sisters at the Young Vic in September 2012, earning exceptionally good reviews, with Matt Trueman of Time Out stating: “In a super cast given licence to shine, Kirby stands out as Masha”. She filmed The Rise in early 2012. The film premièred at the Toronto and London Film Festivals to favourable reviews and won the Best Debut Category for director Rowan Athale.
In 2013, Kirby returned to the National Theatre to play Queen Isabella in Edward II opposite John Heffernan. In the summer of 2014, she played Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, again collaborating with Benedict Andrews at the Young Vic, alongside Gillian Anderson as Blanche and Ben Foster as Stanley. She won the Best Supporting Actress category at the Whatsonstage Awards 2014, which is voted for by the public. Kirby also appeared in Richard Curtis’s romantic comedy film About Time.
Other projects
Vanessa Kirby appeared in 2015 in Everest as American socialite Sandy Hill Pittman, The Dresser, and in May of that year, was cast as Princess Margaret in Netflix’s first original British series The Crown. Her selection came after a six-month search. For this role, she was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2017 and won the award for season two in 2018.
Kirby 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 films 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 played the title character in Polly Stenham’s Julie, an adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, at the National Theatre in 2018. Kirby has since starred in two action franchise films, Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) opposite Tom Cruise and Fast and Furious: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) alongside Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham.
In 2020, Kirby portrayed a grief-stricken woman in Kornél Mundruzcó’s English debut Pieces of a Woman, a film portraying the degradation of marriage. The film received generally positive reviews, with Kirby garnering universal critical acclaim. Peter Debruge wrote for Variety that ” this is ultimately Kirby’s movie, as the stage marvel delivers her most impressive screen performance to date.”
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Rolling Stone called her performance “transcendent” and she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 2020 Venice Film Festival, where the film premiered. She went on to receive nominations for the Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.
Kirby is set to reprise her dual role of Alanna Mitsopolis and White Widow in Mission: Impossible 7 (2022) and Mission: Impossible 8 (2023). In 2022, she replaced Jodie Comer as Empress Josephine in the upcoming historical drama film Kitbag opposite Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon, directed by Ridley Scott.
Husband
Vanessa Kirby is currently single and not married. Her husband or boyfriend is unknown to the general public. However, from 2015 to 2019, Kirby was in a relationship with actor Callum Turner, with whom she co-starred in Queen & Country. Kirby co-founded the London-based production company Aluna Entertainment which has a first-look deal with Netflix.
Vanessa Kirby net worth
How much is Vanessa Kirby worth? Vanessa Kirby net worth is estimated at around $5 million. Her main source of income is from her career as an actress. Kirby successful career has earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars trips. She is one of the richest and influential actresses in the United Kingdom.