For her performance as a grief-stricken woman in Pieces of a Woman (2020), she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Kirby has since portrayed Empress Joséphine in the historical drama Napoleon (2023). Kirby was raised in Wimbledon, London. [6] .

Nov 22, 2023 · With Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Rupert Everett. An epic that details the chequered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

Based on the life of Napoleon and primarily depicting his rise to power, as well as his relationship with his wife, Joséphine, it stars Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and Vanessa Kirby as Joséphine. In October 2020, Scott announced Napoleon as his next project.

Nov 21, 2023 · She gets the film’s final word, haunting Napoleon from beyond the grave, just as she reportedly colonized his last gasp on his deathbed.

Oct 10, 2024 · Idolized by her husband even as he grows beyond "needing her," Vanessa Kirby perfectly captures a woman who is both powerful and powerless — larger than life to the man who...

Nov 29, 2023 · Playing Josephine — whose life with Napoleon is the stuff of romantic legend — was a unique challenge, says Vanessa Kirby.

Nov 29, 2023 · “Napoleon” star Vanessa Kirby — cast in Ridley Scott’s sprawling, wild historical epic as the divine Joséphine Bonaparte, former wife of Napoleon (Joaquin Phoenix), former Empress of...

Nov 27, 2023 · Vanessa Kirby has spoken about how “scared” she was filming Ridley Scott ’s Napoleon. The 35-year-old English actor plays Joséphine de Beauharnais, the mistress-turned-empress of Napoleon...

Nov 23, 2023 · Vanessa Kirby was recently watching a cut of her new film, Napoleon, with her best friend. As kids, they would star in school assembly plays together. But this – a film with hundreds of extras...

Nov 21, 2023 · Ahead of the film’s release, Scott and co-star Vanessa Kirby, who steals the show as Empress Joséphine, Napoleon’s first wife, sat down with RT correspondent Nikki Novak to talk about what it was...