English actress Vanessa Kirby got a double dose of love from the Venice Film Festival. She stars in two films picked for this year’s Venice competition lineup, which organizers unveiled Tuesday morning.
Best known for portraying Princess Margaret alongside Claire Foy’s Queen Elizabeth in the first two seasons of Netflix hit drama The Crown, a role for which she earned a BAFTA best supporting actress TV award and an Emmy nomination, Kirby has become one of the U.K.’s top emerging stars.
Major Hollywood appearances have included Mission: Impossible – Fallout, in which she played a deadly arms dealer alongside Tom Cruise, and last year’s Fast & Furious spin-offFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, in which she portrayed an MI6 agent.
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