A biography for Vanessa Kirbyhasn’t been written yet.
“I've been really lucky to work with a lot of theater directors in the film, like Stephen Daldry on 'The Crown' and Richard Eyre on 'The Dresser.'”
“I wanted to do theatre - it has always been my thing.”
“My thoughts are ridiculously loud and fast.”
“We know all about actors and singers because they do interviews, but with the royals, everything's so tightly controlled. They live this strange reality behind closed doors.”
“Some of my favourite characters have been people like Masha in 'Three Sisters' and Elena in 'Uncle Vanya.'”
“I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.”
“The thing I really know is that I'm not a model. I'm an actress.”
“So many times, you pick up a script, and you think, 'OK, so she's the sexy one,' or, 'She's the ex-girlfriend.'”
“Love whoever you want to love.”
“I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.”
“I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.”
“My favourite thing is cooking for my friends. There are 13 of us who all met at university. They come round once a week, and I make a huge lasagne.”
“I'm interested in what stops people getting what they want.”
“I thought, 'If I go to uni, I can read and watch people and take many different subjects - take philosophy modules - and have time to travel in the summers,' which I did. I thought, 'I hope this will make me a better actor,' and it did.”
“I always go for the underdog or the rogue or the rebel.”
“As a person, I'm incredibly overfamiliar. I have to be careful what I say!”
“Growing up, the image I had of Princess Margaret was completely different. I knew that she was a slightly tragic figure, but I didn't know why. Now, I love her with my all my heart. She was such an amazing person, and getting to 'know' her better was an honor.”
“Family relationships are just so fascinating - how they shape you as a person, how you can wound each other, how you're imprinted in a way by your family and the conditions under which you grow up.”
“When I first started doing screen work, I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession - all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from southwest London.'”
“What your insides are doing, your outside reflects, and what you give to yourself, you can give to others.”