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Actor
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 and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Vanessa Kirby trained at one of Britain's most prestigious drama conservatoires and emerged into the classical theatre world with a 2014 RSC production of Romeo and Juliet that announced her as a performer of serious artistic ambition. Her television breakthrough came through the Netflix series The Crown, where her portrayal of Princess Margaret in seasons three and four demonstrated her capacity to inhabit historical figures with psychological depth and charisma. Since then, she has pursued an increasingly ambitious film career, earning an Academy Award nomination for her raw, physically courageous performance in Pieces of a Woman and establishing herself as a go-to actress for directors seeking performers capable of emotional and physical complexity.
Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Pieces of a Woman (2021)
University of Exeter
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