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Vanessa Nuala Kirby born 18 April 1987 or 1988 is an English actress and producer. She rose to international prominence playing Princess Margaret in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2016–2017), for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Kirby made her professional acting debut on stage, giving acclaimed performances in the plays All My Sons (2010), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2010), Women Beware Women (2011), Three Sisters (2012), and playing Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (2014).
She also had roles in the action films Hobbs & Shaw (2019) and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). For her performance as a grieving woman in Pieces of a Woman (2020), she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Kirby has since played Empress Joséphine in the historical drama Napoléon (2023)
Early life
Kirby was raised in Wimbledon, London. Her parents are Jane Cooper Kirby, a former Country Living magazine writer, and Roger Kirby, a retired surgeon and president of the Royal Society of Medicine. She has two siblings: Jo, a school teacher, and Juliet, a theatrical agent.
After studying at Lady Eleanor Holles School and being rejected by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Kirby took a gap year to travel and work in an AIDS hospice in South Africa. She then studied English at the University of Exeter.
Personal life
From 2015 to 2019, Kirby was in a relationship with English actor Callum Turner. Since 2022, she has been in a relationship with Paul Rabil, an American former professional lacrosse player, co-founder, and president of the Premier Lacrosse League. During CCXP Mexico in May 2025, Kirby revealed that she was expecting her first child.
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