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Vanessa Kirby Biography

Vanessa Kirby (born 18 April 1988) is an English stage, TV, and film actress. She starred as Estella in the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations in 2011 and as Joanna in Richard Curtis' romantic comedy About Time in 2013. From 2016 to 2017, Kirby portrayed Princess Margaret in Peter Morgan's Netflix series The Crown, for which she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is known mostly for her stage work; Variety in 2016 called her "the outstanding stage actress of her generation, capable of the most unexpected choices".

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Some of the biographies [of princess Margaret] were really sensationalist, News of the World sorts, but they were great because they also gave first and secondhand accounts of her at home. The butlers come forward and give little moments, some of which you discard and some which ring somehow true and you use.

Biographies, Giving, Home, Princess, Sensationalist, True

I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts and getting to know her, it was how conflicted her position and her internal life - or self - was. She is so fiercely royal and so fiercely "sister of the queen" or "daughter of the king" because that is her identity and it's all she's ever known. And at the same time she is struggling to push the boundaries and to break away from it, to be different or to modernize the monarchy, to turn it on its head.

Break, Daughter, Girl, Queen, Queens, Struggling

I still get stage fright horribly. I still get nervous. I do tend to find when you're playing characters, often - just for the time you're playing them - there are sides of your personality that get stronger because you draw on them more.

Character, Fright, Personality, Sides, Stronger, Time

[Princess Margaret] was always trying to radicalize things.

Always Trying, Princess, Radicalize, Things, Trying

At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.

David, Fragility, Insecurity, Princess, Same

I watched her do speeches, but the only footage we could find of [princess] Margaret was archive footage, which was of her public presentation of herself.

Archive, Archives, Princess, Speech, Speeches

It was always said you couldn't have two sisters less alike. In a way [princess] Elizabeth was always internalizing everything and [princess] Margaret was always externalizing everything, so that became the basis. The storyline becomes about these two sisters: they're fighting for their position or trying to establish their identity in the world alongside each other and in relation to this establishment which only those two were a part of.

Fighting, Internalizing, Position, Princess, Relation, Two

I watched tons of archive footage of princess Margaret and listened to the music she loved; that was really immersive and brilliant.

Archive, Archives, Brilliant, Loved, Princess

I really enjoyed stepping into that side of [princess Margaret] and being silly and naughty and fun.

Enjoyed, Fun, Naughty, Princess, Silly

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.

Dad, Doctors, Extrovert, Extroverts, Loved, Tons

[Queen Elizabeth] is just the granny queen! She's our granny queen who shakes people's hands!

Hands, People, Queen, Queens, Shakes

Everybody has an image of [princess Margaret], to a certain extent. But I felt it would have been harder if we were playing them as they are now. In a way, I don't know how much of a living memory we as a collective have of them in the '50s, when Margaret was 21 and this sort of Elizabeth Taylor. You don't think of your grandparents as being teenagers. You just can't - your brain just can't go there!

50S, Elizabeth, Memories, Princess, Teenager, Way

That's exactly how I felt. So getting to suddenly know this young [princess] Margaret, who had this extraordinary life - it was sad and tragic and difficult and sort of astonishing and getting to know her young self was amazing because it completely defied all my expectations.

Defied, Difficult, Expectations, Princess, Self, Young

Once you start [filming] you have researchers who are constantly giving you information. Ultimately it isn't about impersonating or trying to be an image of somebody and more trying to capture the spirit and the soul of the person somehow.

Filming, Giving, Researchers, Soul, Trying

I started to really enjoy the fact that [princess] Margaret was an exhibitionist. Even on a day-to-day basis, Margaret's costumes were always so much more dramatic and bold than Elizabeth's were.

Basis, Costumes, Enjoy, Fact, Facts, Princess