Vanessa Nuala Kirby (born April 18, 1988) 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. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.  Kirby made her professional acting debut on stage, with acclaimed performances in the plays All My Sons (2010), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2010), Women Beware Women (2011), Three Sisters (2012), and as Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (2014). She also appeared in the action films Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), Hobbs & Shaw (2019), and The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025), and portrayed Empress Joséphine in the historical drama Napoleon (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Vanessa Kirby, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2027Avengers: Secret Wars — Sue Storm / Invisible Woman
• 2026Avengers: Doomsday — Sue Storm / Invisible Woman
• 2026The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable — Producer
• 2025Eden — Dore
• 2025Night Always Comes — Lynette, Producer
• 2025The Fantastic 4: First Steps — Sue Storm / Invisible Woman
• 2024The Apprentice — Thanks
• 2023Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One — The White Widow
• 2023Napoleon — Josephine Bonaparte
• 2022Italian Studies — Alina Reynolds, Executive Producer
• 2022The Son — Beth
• 2021The World to Come — Tallie
• 2020Pieces of a Woman — Martha Weiss
• 2019Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw — Hattie Shaw
• 2019Mr. Jones — Ada Brooks
• 2018Mission: Impossible - Fallout — The White Widow
• 2018National Theatre Live: Julie — Julie
• 2016Genius — Zelda Fitzgerald
• 2016Kill Command — Mills
• 2016Me Before You — Alicia Dawares
• The Crown — Princess Margaret, Young Princess Margaret (archive footage)
• 2015Bone in the Throat — Sophie
• 2015Everest — Sandy Hill Pittman
• 2015Jupiter Ascending — Katharine Dunlevy
• 2015Queen & Country — Dawn Rohan
• 2015The Dresser — Irene
• The Frankenstein Chronicles — Lady Jemima Hervey
• 2014Devil in the Detail — Jessica
• 2014Insomniacs — Jade
• 2014National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire — Stella Kowalski
• 2013About Time — Joanna
• 2013Charlie Countryman — Felicity
• 2013The Exchange — Woman
• Labyrinth — Alice Tanner
• 2012Nora — Young Woman
• 2012The Rise — Nicola
• Great Expectations — Estella
• The Hour — Ruth Elms
• 2010Love/Loss — Jane
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Celia Ravenscroft
• Liminal
• Off Season — Producer
• Ruins — Producer
• The Honey Wars — (voice)
• The Spacesuit — Executive Producer
• The Sun Also Rises — Lady Britt Ashley, Producer
• Tomorrow Is a Drag

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2025Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere — Self - 'Sue Storm' / 'Invisible Woman'
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self, Self - Guest
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The View — Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• The Oscars — Self