---
name: "Vanessa Kirby"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vanessa-kirby"
fi1m_id: "vanessa-kirby"
imdb_id: "nm3948952"
tmdb_id: 556356
wikidata_id: "Q6159535"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 April 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 12
average_fi1m_score: 67
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 10
updated: "2026-10-22T02:15:02.971887+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Vanessa Kirby

## Identity

Vanessa Kirby

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vanessa-kirby
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** vanessa-kirby
- **IMDb ID:** nm3948952
- **TMDB ID:** 556356
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6159535
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Kirby, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6159535, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3948952/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/556356

Actor. Born 18 April 1988 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 April 1988, Wimbledon, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 2011–present
- **Also known as:** Vanessa Jane Kirby, Vanessa Nuala Kirby
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 12: 10 acting, 1 producing, 1 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Christopher McQuarrie](https://film.one/person/christopher-mcquarrie.md), [Kevin Feige](https://film.one/person/kevin-feige.md), [Pedro Pascal](https://film.one/person/pedro-pascal.md), [Rebecca Ferguson](https://film.one/person/rebecca-ferguson.md), [Simon Pegg](https://film.one/person/simon-pegg.md), [Tom Cruise](https://film.one/person/tom-cruise.md), [Ving Rhames](https://film.one/person/ving-rhames.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 67, as actor, over 10 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 71 (6), 2020s 62 (6)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 67 to 69 across 10 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 8 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 3 of 8 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 6, Adventure 5, Action 4, History 2, Comedy 1, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 20 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $3,194m across 8 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Kirby, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6159535, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3948952/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/556356

## Coming up

- *Avengers: Doomsday* (2026-12-16), as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman — [page](https://film.one/film/avengers-doomsday.md)
- *Avengers: Secret Wars* (2027-12-15), as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Fantastic 4: First Steps*](https://film.one/film/the-fantastic-4-first-steps.md) (71), [*Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw*](https://film.one/film/fast-and-furious-presents-hobbs-and-shaw.md) (65), [*The Son*](https://film.one/film/the-son.md) (43)
- **Apple TV:** [*Mission: Impossible - Fallout*](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-fallout.md) (87), [*Napoleon*](https://film.one/film/napoleon.md) (63)
- **Netflix:** [*Pieces of a Woman*](https://film.one/film/pieces-of-a-woman.md) (66), [*About Time*](https://film.one/film/about-time.md) (66)
- **Paramount+:** [*Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One*](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Vanessa Kirby

> Vanessa Kirby can make a look establish who is in charge. We value that quiet authority, especially when a film gives her more to do than lend conviction to an underwritten part.

The other three defer to Vanessa Kirby’s Sue Storm in *The Fantastic 4: First Steps* (2025), and the reason is easy to see. She runs the household and conducts the diplomacy as though separating them would waste time. Matt Shakman gives her a family whose members behave as though they know one another, and she makes their reliance on Sue convincing. We rate Kirby most when this watchfulness has a practical purpose: she can establish who makes the decisions without making a scene of it.

Her breakthrough as Princess Margaret in *The Crown* (2016–2017) was followed by a move into action as the White Widow in *Mission: Impossible - Fallout* (2018). By *Pieces of a Woman* (2020), she was carrying a leading dramatic role, including a 23-minute single-take birth scene. The White Widow returned in Christopher McQuarrie’s *Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One* (2023), still dressed in white by Jill Taylor. Moving between these parts has given her different demands to meet, though the writing has not always kept up.

In Ridley Scott’s *Napoleon* (2023), her Josephine measures out her attention to Joaquin Phoenix’s emperor, knowing how readily he will obey her. We missed her whenever the film left her for a battle, because those calculations made the conversations more absorbing than the fighting. Editors Claire Simpson and Sam Restivo hurry through the years, while Kirby gives the marriage time to register. Composer Martin Phipps is more effective in the quiet cues beneath her scenes than in the insistent choir and drums elsewhere.

*The Son* (2022) shows the limit of what she can repair. As Beth, alongside Laura Dern’s Kate, she briefly makes stiff dialogue sound human, but Florian Zeller’s film gives neither actor enough to sustain it. We would not recommend a shallow drama simply because she brings some feeling to it. Casting her is no substitute for writing her a part.

For a fuller use of her, start with *The Fantastic 4: First Steps*. Shakman lets her be capable and warm, and the shared domestic life gives her decisions weight. The threat to the planet is less persuasive; go for the people trying to run a household underneath it.
Fi1m

## Biography

Vanessa Kirby is an English actress. She made her professional stage debut in 2010 and appeared in productions including All My Sons, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Women Beware Women, Three Sisters and A Streetcar Named Desire.

She rose to prominence playing Princess Margaret in the Netflix series The Crown (2016–2017), for which she won a BAFTA Award. Her film roles include Joanna in About Time (2013), The White Widow in Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), Josephine Bonaparte in Napoleon (2023), and Sue Storm in The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025). For her performance in Pieces of a Woman (2020) she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress and received an Academy Award nomination.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (12)

### Performed in (10) — the average rests on these

- *The Fantastic 4: First Steps* (2025), Fi1m 71, as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman — [page](https://film.one/film/the-fantastic-4-first-steps.md)
- *Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One* (2023), Fi1m 74, as The White Widow — [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one.md)
- *Napoleon* (2023), Fi1m 63, as Josephine Bonaparte — [page](https://film.one/film/napoleon.md)
- *The Son* (2022), Fi1m 43, as Beth — [page](https://film.one/film/the-son.md)
- *Pieces of a Woman* (2020), Fi1m 66, as Martha Weiss — [page](https://film.one/film/pieces-of-a-woman.md)
- *Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw* (2019), Fi1m 65, as Hattie Shaw — [page](https://film.one/film/fast-and-furious-presents-hobbs-and-shaw.md)
- *Mission: Impossible - Fallout* (2018), Fi1m 87, as The White Widow — [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-fallout.md)
- *Everest* (2015), Fi1m 61, as Sandy Hill Pittman — [page](https://film.one/film/everest.md)
- *About Time* (2013), Fi1m 66, as Joanna — [page](https://film.one/film/about-time.md)
- *The Hour* (2011), Fi1m 70, as Ruth Elms — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-hour.md)

### Produced (1)

- *The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable* (2026), Fi1m 55, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-disciple-2026.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The Crown* (2016), Fi1m 78, as Young Princess Margaret (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)

## Complete filmography (47)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Avengers: Secret Wars* (2027), as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman
- *Avengers: Doomsday* (2026), as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/avengers-doomsday.md)
- *The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable* (2026), Producer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/the-disciple-2026.md)
- *Night Always Comes* (2025), as Lynette · Producer
- *The Fantastic 4: First Steps* (2025), as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/the-fantastic-4-first-steps.md)
- *Eden* (2025), as Dore
- *The Apprentice* (2024), Thanks — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/the-apprentice.md)
- *Napoleon* (2023), as Josephine Bonaparte — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/napoleon.md)
- *Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One* (2023), as The White Widow — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one.md)
- *The Son* (2022), as Beth — Fi1m 43, [page](https://film.one/film/the-son.md)
- *Italian Studies* (2022), as Alina Reynolds · Executive Producer
- *The World to Come* (2021), as Tallie
- *Pieces of a Woman* (2020), as Martha Weiss — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/pieces-of-a-woman.md)
- *Mr. Jones* (2019), as Ada Brooks
- *Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw* (2019), as Hattie Shaw — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/fast-and-furious-presents-hobbs-and-shaw.md)
- *National Theatre Live: Julie* (2018), as Julie
- *Mission: Impossible - Fallout* (2018), as The White Widow — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-fallout.md)
- *The Crown* (2016), series, as Princess Margaret, Young Princess Margaret (archive footage) — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)
- *Genius* (2016), as Zelda Fitzgerald
- *Me Before You* (2016), as Alicia Dawares
- *Kill Command* (2016), as Mills
- *The Frankenstein Chronicles* (2015), series, as Lady Jemima Hervey
- *The Dresser* (2015), as Irene
- *Everest* (2015), as Sandy Hill Pittman — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/everest.md)
- *Bone in the Throat* (2015), as Sophie
- *Jupiter Ascending* (2015), as Katharine Dunlevy
- *Queen & Country* (2015), as Dawn Rohan
- *Devil in the Detail* (2014), as Jessica
- *National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire* (2014), as Stella Kowalski
- *Insomniacs* (2014), as Jade
- *The Exchange* (2013), as Woman
- *About Time* (2013), as Joanna — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/about-time.md)
- *Charlie Countryman* (2013), as Felicity
- *Labyrinth* (2012), series, as Alice Tanner
- *Nora* (2012), as Young Woman
- *The Rise* (2012), as Nicola
- *Great Expectations* (2011), series, as Estella
- *The Hour* (2011), series, as Ruth Elms — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-hour.md)
- *Love/Loss* (2010), as Jane
- *Agatha Christie's Poirot* (1989), series, as Celia Ravenscroft — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/agatha-christies-poirot.md)
- *The Honey Wars*, as (voice)
- *Ruins*, as Producer
- *The Sun Also Rises*, as Lady Britt Ashley · Producer
- *Liminal*, Actor
- *The Spacesuit*, as Executive Producer
- *Off Season*, as Producer
- *Tomorrow Is a Drag*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Vanessa Kirby](https://film.one/media/person/559/gallery-503c1e1fb6f6.jpg) Vanessa Kirby — Jay Dixit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Vanessa_Kirby_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_08_%28Cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Vanessa_Kirby_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_08_%28Cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vanessa Kirby, actor, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Eden.](https://film.one/media/person/559/gallery-f6f446eb9e9a.jpg) Vanessa Kirby, actor, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Eden. — Jay Dixit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Vanessa_Kirby_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_02.jpg/1280px-Vanessa_Kirby_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vanessa Kirby, actor, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Eden.](https://film.one/media/person/559/gallery-d1aa3e1940fe.jpg) Vanessa Kirby, actor, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the movie Eden. — Jay Dixit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Vanessa_Kirby_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_01.jpg/1280px-Vanessa_Kirby_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Stars of The Crown, Claire Foy, Matt Smith and Vanessa Kirby play a hilarious game of Never Have I Ever with MTV! (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/559/gallery-8fb32aebb1a9.png) Stars of The Crown, Claire Foy, Matt Smith and Vanessa Kirby play a hilarious game of Never Have I Ever with MTV! (2017) — MTV International, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Vanessa_K.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Vanessa Kirby](https://film.one/media/person/559/gallery-c7b0f9011e64.jpg) Vanessa Kirby — Image via TMDB
- ![Vanessa Kirby](https://film.one/media/person/559/gallery-34f5ea5ad78e.jpg) Vanessa Kirby — Image via TMDB
- ![Vanessa Kirby](https://film.one/media/person/559/gallery-5d543314ca05.jpg) Vanessa Kirby — Image via TMDB
- ![Vanessa Kirby at the London premiere of Mission: Impossible – Fallout on 13 July 2018](https://film.one/media/person/559/gallery-6c5a02a6e512.png) Vanessa Kirby at the London premiere of Mission: Impossible – Fallout on 13 July 2018 — MTV UK, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Vanessa_Kirby_2018.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Vanessa Kirby - Mission: Impossible – Fallout 2018 press tour](https://film.one/media/person/559/gallery-758c6b71eaec.jpg) Vanessa Kirby - Mission: Impossible – Fallout 2018 press tour — MTV UK, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Vanessa_Kirby_2018.jpg/1280px-Vanessa_Kirby_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vanessa Kirby](https://film.one/media/person/559/gallery-37ea16dced04.jpg) Vanessa Kirby — Image via TMDB
- ![Vanessa Kirby](https://film.one/media/person/559/gallery-79352631c70e.jpg) Vanessa Kirby — Image via TMDB
- ![Vanessa Kirby](https://film.one/media/person/559/gallery-30af2e0133bb.jpg) Vanessa Kirby — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2021: Best Actress (nominated), for *Pieces of a Woman*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Volpi Cup for Best Actress 2020: Volpi Cup for Best Actress (won), for *Pieces of a Woman*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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