---
name: "Vicky Krieps"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vicky-krieps"
fi1m_id: "vicky-krieps"
imdb_id: "nm3043279"
tmdb_id: 1080195
wikidata_id: "Q2522116"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 October 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-03T02:37:28.141804+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."
---

# Vicky Krieps

## Identity

Vicky Krieps

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vicky-krieps
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** vicky-krieps
- **IMDb ID:** nm3043279
- **TMDB ID:** 1080195
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2522116
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_Krieps, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2522116, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3043279/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1080195

Actor. Born 4 October 1983 in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 October 1983, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 87 (1), 2020s 64 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 70 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 3 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 1, History 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $51m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_Krieps, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2522116, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3043279/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1080195

## Coming up

- *Untitled Ocean's Prequel* (2027-06-23)

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Phantom Thread*](https://film.one/film/phantom-thread.md) (87), [*Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story*](https://film.one/tv/monster-the-lizzie-borden-story.md) (47)
- **AMC+:** [*Corsage*](https://film.one/film/corsage.md) (81)

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

## Fi1m on Vicky Krieps

> Vicky Krieps can show disagreement with a glance and leave it there. We value the stubbornness she gives her characters, especially in *Phantom Thread*, where affection never obliges Alma to accept the terms she is offered.

Vicky Krieps often lets a silence stand, giving us time to notice the resistance in a look. In *Phantom Thread* (2017), her Alma Elson admires the dressmaker Reynolds without becoming someone he can simply arrange to suit himself. She makes the admiration convincing, which matters as much as the stubbornness. We were absorbed by Alma because her love for Reynolds never seemed to cancel out her objections to him.

The supporting parts in *Hanna* (2011) and *A Most Wanted Man* (2014) came before Paul Thomas Anderson's *Phantom Thread* gave her an international breakthrough. Since then, she has moved between studio films such as *Old* (2021) and European independent work, including *Bergman Island* (2021) and *Corsage* (2022). She frequently plays women constrained by marriage, social expectations or their own bodies. Her understatement allows them to object without having to announce every grievance.

Anderson gives her room in *Phantom Thread* to be difficult without making Alma the sensible person sent to correct a selfish man. Opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, she is an equal presence, without having to advertise that equality. Lesley Manville's Cyril Woodcock matters here too: she has enough authority to ensure that this romance can never concern just two people. The enclosed setting sometimes feels airless; Krieps, Day-Lewis and Manville give us reasons to stay with people who can be hard company.

Mia Hansen-Løve's *Bergman Island* gives her Chris, a filmmaker negotiating creative and personal tensions, and makes good use of her silences. For *Corsage*, she wore a corset for sustained periods to play Empress Elisabeth of Austria, a physical commitment consistent with her attention to women living under constraint. The pace of *Corsage* can still be sleepy; an actor's concentration cannot do all the work of keeping a film moving. Start with *Phantom Thread*, and do not expect its lovers to make the evening comfortable.

## Biography

Vicky Krieps is a Luxembourgish-German actress. She trained at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg and Zurich University of the Arts, and gained early stage experience at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.

Her breakthrough came with the role of Alma Elson in Paul Thomas Anderson’s *Phantom Thread* (2017). She has appeared in films including *Hanna* (2011), *A Most Wanted Man* (2014), *Colonia* (2016), *Old* (2021) and *The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan* (2023). For her performance as Empress Elisabeth in *Corsage* (2022) she received the Un Certain Regard Best Performance prize at Cannes and the European Film Award for Best Actress.

She is also credited as Bridget Sullivan in the series *Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story* (2026).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, bloody-disgusting.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story* (2026), Fi1m 47, as Bridget Sullivan — [page](https://film.one/tv/monster-the-lizzie-borden-story.md)
- *Corsage* (2022), Fi1m 81, as Empress Elisabeth — [page](https://film.one/film/corsage.md)
- *Phantom Thread* (2017), Fi1m 87, as Alma Elson — [page](https://film.one/film/phantom-thread.md)

## Complete filmography (74)

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

- *Untitled Ocean's Prequel* (2027), Actor
- *Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story* (2026), series, as Bridget Sullivan — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/tv/monster-the-lizzie-borden-story.md)
- *The Idiot(s)* (2026), Actor
- *Diamond* (2026), as Sharon Cobbs
- *Love Me Tender* (2025), as Clémence Delcourt · Associate Producer
- *Father Mother Sister Brother* (2025), as Lilith
- *Two People Exchanging Saliva* (2025), as Narrator
- *Yakushima's Illusion* (2025), as Corry
- *Monster: The Ed Gein Story* (2025), series, as Ilse Koch
- *Re-Creation* (2025), as Juror 8
- *Went Up the Hill* (2025), as Jill / Elizabeth · Executive Producer
- *Hot Milk* (2025), as Ingrid
- *Hotel Fantasma* (2025), Actor
- *About a Hero* (2024), as The Reporter
- *The Dead Don't Hurt* (2024), as Vivienne Le Coudy
- *The Three Musketeers: Milady* (2023), as Anne of Austria
- *The Wall* (2023), as Jessica Comley
- *Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert* (2023), as Ingeborg Bachmann
- *The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan* (2023), as Anne d'Autriche
- *More Than Ever* (2022), as Hélène
- *Corsage* (2022), as Empress Elisabeth · Executive Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/corsage.md)
- *The Survivor* (2022), as Miriam Wofsoniker
- *Faithful* (2022), as Hélène Iveton
- *Hold Me Tight* (2021), as Clarisse
- *Beckett* (2021), as Lena
- *Old* (2021), as Prisca
- *Next Door* (2021), as The New Tennant
- *Bergman Island* (2021), as Chris
- *Frida* (2021), as Nurse
- *The Last Vermeer* (2019), as Minna Holmberg
- *Das Boot* (2018), series, as Simone Strasser
- *The Girl in the Spider's Web* (2018), as Erika Berger
- *Gutland* (2018), as Lucy Loschetter
- *3 Days in Quiberon* (2018), as Hotel Maid
- *Phantom Thread* (2017), as Alma Elson — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/phantom-thread.md)
- *The Young Karl Marx* (2017), as Jenny von Westphalen
- *We Used to Be Cool* (2016), as Stella
- *Ferien* (2016), Actor
- *Colonia* (2016), as Ursel
- *Mordkommission Berlin 1* (2015), as Charlotte Barnekow
- *Pitter Patter Goes My Heart* (2015), as Lisa
- *Outside the Box* (2015), as Yvonne von Geseke
- *The Chambermaid Lynn* (2015), as Lynn
- *M wie Martha* (2015), as Helene
- *Mon cher petit village* (2015), as Elisabeth
- *Tag der Wahrheit* (2015), as Marie Hoffmann
- *Das Zeugenhaus* (2014), as Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier
- *A Most Wanted Man* (2014), as Niki
- *Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight* (2014), as Elly Beinhorn
- *Before the Winter Chill* (2013), as Caroline
- *Brotherhood of Tears* (2013), as La femme rousse
- *Möbius* (2013), as Olga
- *Tied* (2013), as L'ange
- *Rommel* (2012), as Comtesse La Rochefoucauld
- *Measuring the World* (2012), as Johanna Gauss
- *Two Lives* (2012), as Kathrin Lehnhaber
- *Knight's Treasure* (2012), as Marie Kutter
- *D'Belle Epoque* (2012), as Belle
- *Formentera* (2012), as Mara
- *Anonymous* (2011), as Bessie Vavasour
- *She Is Not Crying, She Is Singing* (2011), as L'infirmière
- *Hanna* (2011), as Johanna Zadeck
- *If Not Us, Who?* (2011), as Dörte
- *House of Boys* (2009), as Flower Shop Girl
- *X on a Map* (2009), as Ana
- *Der Kriminalist* (2006), series, as Dr. Kim Koch
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Mariam Sert
- *The Joy of Sex*, Actor
- *Sexual Healing*, as Eugenie Vis
- *Emma Doucet*, as Emma Doucet · Executive Producer
- *Trivial Of My Life*, as Elise Baumgartner
- *Riverrun*, as Tony
- *Quest for Love*, as Alex
- *If Love Should Die*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Vicky Krieps](https://film.one/media/person/93962/gallery-a72592127dd2.jpg) Vicky Krieps — PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/VickyKrieps-byPhilipRomano.jpg/1280px-VickyKrieps-byPhilipRomano.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- !["Vicky Krieps" (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/93962/gallery-d975d1450c98.jpg) "Vicky Krieps" (2024) — John Bauld from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/%22Vicky_Krieps%22_%2853974012376%29.jpg/1280px-%22Vicky_Krieps%22_%2853974012376%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vicky Krieps at the 2019 German Television Award at the Rheinterrasse in Düsseldorf](https://film.one/media/person/93962/gallery-75f340c6a98c.jpg) Vicky Krieps at the 2019 German Television Award at the Rheinterrasse in Düsseldorf — Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/2019-01-31-Vicky_Krieps-DFP_2019-4197.jpg/1280px-2019-01-31-Vicky_Krieps-DFP_2019-4197.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vicky Krieps beim Deutschen Fernsehpreis 2019 in der Düsseldorfer Rheinterrasse](https://film.one/media/person/93962/gallery-5a2e049c0c8a.jpg) Vicky Krieps beim Deutschen Fernsehpreis 2019 in der Düsseldorfer Rheinterrasse — Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/2019-01-31-Vicky_Krieps-DFP_2019-4204.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Vicky Krieps](https://film.one/media/person/93962/gallery-221b39aa908b.jpg) Vicky Krieps — Image via TMDB
- ![Vicky Krieps](https://film.one/media/person/93962/gallery-a720a7316014.jpg) Vicky Krieps — Image via TMDB
- ![Vicky Krieps](https://film.one/media/person/93962/gallery-e76e0f71a8b4.jpg) Vicky Krieps — Image via TMDB
- ![Vicky Krieps beim Deutschen Fernsehpreis 2019 in der Düsseldorfer Rheinterrasse](https://film.one/media/person/93962/gallery-80e23d7a55da.jpg) Vicky Krieps beim Deutschen Fernsehpreis 2019 in der Düsseldorfer Rheinterrasse — Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/2019-01-31-Vicky_Krieps-DFP_2019-4807.jpg/1280px-2019-01-31-Vicky_Krieps-DFP_2019-4807.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vicky Krieps beim Deutschen Fernsehpreis 2019 in der Düsseldorfer Rheinterrasse](https://film.one/media/person/93962/gallery-e08311ab3f31.jpg) Vicky Krieps beim Deutschen Fernsehpreis 2019 in der Düsseldorfer Rheinterrasse — Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/2019-01-31-Vicky_Krieps-DFP_2019-4826.jpg/1280px-2019-01-31-Vicky_Krieps-DFP_2019-4826.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2023: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (won)
- European Film Award for Best Actress 2022: European Film Award for Best Actress (won), for *Corsage*

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

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