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Vanessa Kirby

Vanessa Kirby is known as an English stage, television and film actress and model. She is most famous for her roles in Great Expectations and About Time.

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Background and Age

Vanessa Kirby was born on April 18, 1988 in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. Vanessa was born to a wealthy family. She had a former magazine manager as a mother and a urology expert as a father. She grew up having actors Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave as family companions, and that may have roused her to pursue acting too.

For her instruction, Vanessa was a brilliant understudy and got a couple of grants. She went to Lady Eleanor Holes School in Hampton and studied English at the University of Exeter. She was offered a spot at LAMDA, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art however turned it down when she got signed to a talent office.

Career and Net Worth

Vanessa started her art in England, she previously started in theater roles after she met David Thacker who, on perceiving her ability, cast in a couple of his theater productions. She kept on featuring in different places over England and won two or three honors for her performances, including the BIZA Rising Star Award. Following a couple of long stretches of theater plays, Kirby got her first on screen appearance in The Hour, a BBC Television production. She lined it up with a lead role in Ridley's Scott version of Labyrinth.After a couple of film and TV productions, she came back to the theater and proceeded with her exceptional performances in front of an audience.

Her arrival earned her another honor from the WhatsOnStage Awards as Best Supporting Actress. Her worldwide praise role came in 2015 when she was thrown in Netflix hit British Series, The Crown. Her performance on the show has been hailed and it earned her a BAFTA in the second season of the show.

In July 2019, the new Fast and the Furious spin off, Hobbs and Shaw was released around the country. Vanessa will star in the film as Hattie.

Biography | Marriage, Husband and Kids

Gossip started to develop during the recording of Mission Impossible: Fallout over the romantic connection between Tom Cruise and Vanessa Kirby. The talk had been activated after the two were shot kissing on set in the motion picture. It turned into a real big news item and Vanessa, who was getting her first taste of newspaper gossip as a motion picture star needed to turn out and dissipate the bits of gossip as just work for the film, avowing she was in a real relationship with another man.

She's presently in a romantic association with Callum Turner whom she portrays as her closest companion. Prior to Turner, Vanessa dated Douglas Booth and Christian Cooke in 2012 and 2009.


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 18 Apr, 1988
Age: 32 yrs
Occupations: Actor
Stage actor
Film actor
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Birth Place: London
Education: University of Exeter
Lady Eleanor Holles School
Gender: Female
Description: British actress
Net Worth 2021: 4 million
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Last Modified: Feb 19 2023
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