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Vanessa Kirby
Vanessa Nuala Kirby is a British 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 and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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entertainment · British actress (born 1987) · actor · also Vanessa Kirby, Vanessa Noola Kirby, Kirby
Born 18 April 1988 · Q6159535
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2025· 2 entries
On 7 September 2025, Kirby announced that she had given birth to her and Rabil's first child.
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During CCXP Mexico in May 2025, Kirby and Rabil revealed that the couple were expecting their first child.
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2022· 1 entry
Appeared in the drama film The Son with Hugh Jackman, which had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival
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2021· 1 entry
Kirby co-founded, with her sister Juliet, the London-based production company Aluna Entertainment which has a first look deal with Netflix
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2020· 2 entries
Won Volpi Cup for Best Actress for Pieces of a Woman (2020).
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Kirby portrayed Martha, a grief-stricken woman, in Kornél Mundruzcó's Pieces of a Woman, a film revolving around the trauma and grief surrounding baby loss
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2018· 1 entry
Kirby returned to the stage and played the title character in Polly Stenham's Julie, an adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, at the Royal National Theatre
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2017· 1 entry
And won the award for the season two in 2018
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2016· 1 entry
Kirby played Elena in Robert Icke's production of Uncle Vanya at the Almeida Theatre, for which she received highly positive reviews, with Matt Trueman of Variety writing that her performance: "confirms her as the outsta
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2015· 1 entry
Kirby appeared in Everest as American socialite Sandy Hill Pittman, and in the space opera film Jupiter Ascending by The Wachowskis
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2014· 1 entry
Kirby appeared in Queen and Country, written and directed by John Boorman
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2013· 1 entry
Kirby returned to the Royal National Theatre to play the Queen of England Isabella of France in Edward II opposite John Heffernan
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2011· 1 entry
Kirby appeared at the National Theatre in Women Beware Women, directed by Marianne Elliott, alongside Harriet Walter and Harry Melling
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2010· 1 entry
At the Octagon Theatre Bolton: All My Sons, Ghosts, and A Midsummer Night's Dream
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1988· 1 entry
Born 1988-04-18.
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