Rebecca Ferguson Biography
Rebecca Ferguson is a Swedish actress best known for The Greatest Showman (2017), Life (2017), Doctor Sleep (2019), Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), and Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). She rose to fame with her portrayal of Elizabeth Woodville in The White Queen (2013)
Rebecca Ferguson Career
Prior to starting her acting career, she worked as a model starting at the age of 13. In fact, he made appearances in magazines and TV ads for jewelry, clothing, and cosmetic products. Ferguson began dancing at a very young age, participating in ballet, tap, jazz, street funk, and tango. Furthermore, she spent a few years working on many short art cinema projects while teaching Argentine tango at a dance company in Lund, Sweden. Ferguson worked as a babysitter, in a jewelry store, a shoe store, a Korean restaurant, and a daycare center. She wasn’t sure if she wanted to be an actor.
During the 1999–2000 Swedish soap serial Nya tider, Ferguson rose to fame as the upper-class girl Anna Gripenhielm. She went on to eventually play Chrissy Eriksson in the Swedish-American soap Ocean Ave. (2002). Additionally, her big screen debut came in the 2004 horror thriller Drowning Ghost, directed by Mikael Håfström. When she was discovered in 2011 in the Simrishamn town market by Swedish director Richard Hobert, she was cast in his feature film A One-way Trip to Antibes, which nominated her for the Stockholm International Film Festival’s Rising Star award. Alongside Gustaf Skarsgård, she co-starred in the 2013 film VI.
Ferguson’s casting as Elizabeth Woodville for the ten-part BBC historical television drama The White Queen (2013) was revealed in August 2012. The show is based on Philippa Gregory’s novels The Cousins’ War, which tell the story of the women during the Wars of the Roses. Furthermore, Ferguson received positive reviews for her role in The White Queen and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film.
Ferguson earned praise from critics for her performance as MI6 operative Ilsa Faust in the fifth Mission: Impossible movie, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, which was released in 2015. After seeing Ferguson in The White Queen and noting a similarity between her and Ingrid Bergman, Tom Cruise personally chose Ferguson to star opposite him in the movie. She returned to the role in the sixth Mission: Impossible movie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which was released in 2018 and became her largest international box office hit, earning over $790 million. She did the same in the seventh Mission: Impossible movie, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which came out in 2023.
In the 2016 Cold War spy thriller Despite the Falling Snow, directed by Shamim Sarif, she portrayed the twin characters of Katya and Lauren alongside Sam Reid and Charles Dance. She took home the Best Actress prize at the 2016 Prague Independent Film Festival for her role in the movie. In addition, Ferguson later that year starred with Meryl Streep in Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins and in Tate Taylor’s thriller novel adaptation The Girl on the Train.
In 2017, Ferguson co-starred with Michael Fassbender and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Tomas Alfredson’s crime thriller The Snowman, played the female lead opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds in Daniel Espinosa’s sci-fi horror Life, and played Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind in Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams’ musical The Greatest Showman. Ferguson had a number of significant cinema roles in 2019. Moreover, She played the villain Morgana in Joe Cornish’s adventure picture The Kid Who Would Be King, co-starred in the Stephen King adaption Doctor Sleep, and played Riza Stavros in F. Gary Gray’s science fiction comedy Men in Black: International.
In addition, she played alongside Lisa Joy in the science fiction thriller Reminiscence in 2021. In Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction book Dune, she also portrayed Lady Jessica. In the 2024 release of Dune: Part Two, the sequel, she will play the same role again. Ferguson executive produced and starred in the 2023 science fiction series Silo on Apple TV+.
Rebecca Ferguson Age
Ferguson was born on October 19, 1983, in Stockholm, Sweden. She is 40 years old as of 2023 and she celebrates her birthday on the 19th of October every year.
Rebecca Ferguson Height and Weight
Ferguson stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 meters) and weighs 55 kg (121 lbs).
Rebecca Ferguson Family
Ferguson was raised in central Stockholm’s Vasastan neighborhood after being born there. Rosemary Ferguson, her mother, is English and migrated to Sweden when she was twenty-five years old. Her mother appears on the sleeve of ABBA’s 1975 self-titled album and assisted the band in translating the lyrics from their 1974 album Waterloo into English. Swedish industrialist Olov Sundström is her father. As her stage name, Ferguson adopted her mother’s last name. Her maternal grandfather is Scottish, whereas her maternal grandmother is Northern Irish.
Rebecca Ferguson Husband and Children
Ferguson gave birth to her first child, a son, in 2007 when she was dating psychosynthesis therapist Ludwig Hallberg. She and Hallberg relocated to Simrishamn, on the southeast coast of Sweden, following her popularity in the soap opera and the birth of her son. Ferguson and Hallberg co-taught tango in Österlen in 2012. April 2015 saw the couple’s separation. Ferguson has been dating businessman Rory St. Clair Gainer since 2016. The couple welcomed a daughter in May 2018. At the beginning of the same year, Ferguson and Gainer tied the knot. Because Richmond, southwest London, is so close to Pinewood and Shepperton studios, they own a residence there.
Rebecca Ferguson Salary
Ferguson earns an annual salary of about $47,000-$120,000.
Rebecca Ferguson Net Worth
Ferguson has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which he has earned through his career as an actress.
Rebecca Ferguson Dune
Ferguson appears as Lady Jessica, Paul’s Bene Gesserit mother and concubine to Paul’s late father and predecessor, Leto Atreides, in the science fiction, Dune as well as Part Two of the sequel. In the movie, Leto’s concubine Lady Jessica is an acolyte of the Bene Gesserit, an all-female organization that seeks mysterious political goals and wields seemingly superhuman physical and mental abilities, such as the capacity to control their bodies down to the cellular level and determine the sex of their children. Although Jessica was told by the Bene Gesserit to bear a daughter as part of their breeding program, she gave birth to a son, Paul, who was raised by Leto’s bodyguards, the elite soldiers Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck.
Paul has received training in political scheming from Thufir Hawat, the Duke’s Mentat—human computers with the capacity to store enormous volumes of data and carry out sophisticated computations whenever needed. Additionally, Jessica has taught her kid the Bene Gesserit disciplines. Jessica’s boss, the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, is intrigued by Paul’s prophetic dreams. She puts Paul through a lethal experiment. As he pulls his hand away from a box, she will be ready to strike him with a poisoned needle (the gom jabbar), which induces excruciating pain through nerve induction but does no physical harm. In order to ensure that Paul’s human qualities can triumph over his animal impulses, this test will see how long he can bear the pain without succumbing to the needle’s tip. More suffering than any girl who has ever been put through the test, Paul passes away.
Leto, Jessica, and Paul travel with their household to occupy Arrakeen, the capital on Arrakis that was once held by House Harkonnen. Leto discovers that harvesting the spice, which is protected by giant sandworms, is dangerous, so he tries to negotiate with the native Fremen people of the planet, viewing them as valuable allies rather than enemies. Soon after the Atreides’ arrival, Harkonnen forces attack, accompanied by the Emperor’s fierce Sardaukar troops in disguise. Leto is betrayed by his personal physician, the Suk doctor Wellington Yueh, who delivers a drugged Leto to the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and his twisted Mentat, Piter De Vries. Yueh, however, arranges for Jessica and Paul to escape into the desert, where the Harkonnens assume they have died.
In an attempt to help Leto kill the Baron during their meeting, Yueh swaps out one of Leto’s teeth with a poison gas capsule. The gas kills Leto, De Vries, and everyone else in the room, but the Baron barely escapes it thanks to his shield. The Baron poisons Hawat with a deadly poison and threatens to stop giving him regular doses of the antidote if he doesn’t take up De Vries’s position. Hawat works covertly to weaken the Harkonnens while adhering to the Baron’s directives.
Rebecca Ferguson Mission Impossible
Ferguson portrayed MI6 agent Ilsa Faust, in the 2015 action spy film, Mission Impossible. At the opera, Ilsa Faust—later revealed to be an undercover MI6 agent—and a few other Syndicate agents are encountered. Their mission is to kill Austria’s Chancellor. After stopping the hit, Ethan and Faust flee, only to see the Chancellor slain by a car bomb. As Syndicate agents pursue them, Ethan and Benji are compelled to abandon Faust in order to preserve her cover. Hunley instructs the Special Activities Division to apprehend Ethan and Benji immediately upon discovery, or to carry out their execution if needed, due to their close proximity to the Chancellor’s murder.
Brandt recruits former IMF agent, Luther Stickell, to help him locate both Ethan and Benji before the CIA does. In the meantime, Ethan and Benji locate Faust in Casablanca, where she reveals that Ethan’s suspect is Solomon Lane, a rogue MI6 agent who is currently the Syndicate’s head. After stealing a computerized ledger from Lane that allegedly included the identities of every Syndicate agent, the three break into an underwater vault under a power station. Nevertheless, Faust escapes with the data to London, where she meets Atlee, her handler and MI6 Chief, who stealthily destroys the data and compels her to carry out her clandestine mission.
Rebecca Ferguson Doctor Sleep
Ferguson prtrays as Rose the Hat, the main antagonist of the 2019 movie Doctor Sleep, based on Stephen King’s 2013 novel of the same name. As the semi-immortal head of the “True Knot,” a nomadic clan of quasi-demonic murderers that also includes Snakebite Andi, she is Danny Torrance’s greatest enemy. Rose and her adherents have a reputation for searching out youngsters who possess telepathic powers and torturing them until they pass away, consuming their psychic energy, which they refer to as “Steam.” They can sustain themselves for an infinite amount of time by feeding on this.
In a different scene, Dan is attacked by Rose when she gets to the Overlook and manages to free the Overlook’s spirits from his lockboxes in time to save himself. Attracted to Rose’s strength, the spirits overpower and consume her, then turn on Danny and take control of him in an attempt to force him to kill Abra. He tells her to leave before the hotel takes over him once more, barely managing to get control back. Before the hotel can force him to deactivate it, he enters the boiler room but manages to take control again. Dan experiences a vision of himself as a toddler being consoled by his mother, Wendy, while fire breaks out. As the Overlook burns down and the police show up, Abra flees.
Rebecca Ferguson Men in Black: International
Ferguson appears as Riza Stavros, an alien intergalactic arms dealer and H’s ex-girlfriend, in the 2019 science fiction action comedy film, Men in Black: International. Riza was romantically involved with H, a MiB agent. But because of their respective jobs, they split up quickly. She was told that her former boyfriend H was in town to visit her while she was interacting with someone else. After putting an end to the guy, Riza went to see H.
In order to recover “Pawny,” the lone survivor of a small group of aliens attacked by the Twins, H persuades M to accompany him in following a lead to Marrakesh. When Pawny swears allegiance to M, they are apprehended by MiB operatives under the command of C. C thinks M is the traitor after finding video evidence of Vungus giving M the crystal. They discover that Vungus’ crystal is a weapon powered by a compressed blue giant when H, M, and Pawny escape on a rocket-powered bike with the help of extraterrestrial contacts Nasr and Bassam.
While they fix the broken bike, Bassam takes the weapon to H’s former girlfriend, alien arms dealer Riza Stavros. The three go to Riza’s island stronghold and try to sneak into the base, but Riza and her bodyguard, Luca Brasi, catch them. In exchange for their favor, Luca, the alien that M saved when he was a youngster, lets them take the weapon as he confines Riza. As High T and a team of operatives kill the Twins, who have cornered the three.
Rebecca Ferguson Movies and TV Shows
- Drowning Ghost
- Lennart
- Puls
- Irresistible
- Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
- Despite the Falling Snow
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- Dune
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
- Dune: Part Two
Rebecca Ferguson Social Media Platform
Ferguson is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. She has 2.7k followers on Twitter 122.5k followers on Instagram, and 428.1k followers on Facebook.