Vanessa Kirby

Some may remember British actress Vanessa Kirby, 32, as Princess Margaret in the first two seasons of the TV series The Crown, or as black market arms dealer White Widow in Mission: Impossible-Fallout, with Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. This year she received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Drama from the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for her performance in Pieces of a Woman, by Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó, a role which had already earned her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at last year’s Venice Film Festival.

The British actress Vanessa Kirby was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Drama for her heart-wrenching performance in Pieces of a Woman, directed by Kornél Mundruczó. The screenplay was written by his wife Kata Wéber, inspired by the Hungarian couple’s tragic experience of losing a baby.

Vanessa Kirby has a one-two-punch in Venice. She is the only actress who, in a toned-down year, has two films here.