| Jméno: | Rebecca Ferguson |
| Datum narození: | 1983-10-19 |
| Místo narození: | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Výška: | 1.65 m |
| IMDb ID: | nm0272581 |
Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström (born October 19, 1983) is a Swedish actress. She began her acting career with the Swedish soap opera Nya tider (1999–2000) and went on to star in the slasher film Drowning Ghost (2004). She came to international prominence with her portrayal of Elizabeth Woodville in the British television miniseries The White Queen (2013), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film. In 2023, she starred in the Apple TV+ science fiction drama series Silo. Ferguson starred as MI6 agent Ilsa Faust in the action spy film Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) and its sequels Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). She also played Jenny Lind in the musical film The Greatest Showman (2017) and acted in science fiction horror film Life (2017), starred in the horror film Doctor Sleep (2019), and had supporting parts in the comedy-drama Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), the mystery thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), and the science fiction film Men in Black: International (2019). She portrayed Lady Jessica in the sci-fi epic Dune (2021) and reprised her role in its sequel Dune: Part Two (2024).
- Performed her own stunts in Mission: Impossible - Národ grázlů (2015). She went under vigorous fitness and stunt training, consisting of 6-weeks of a 6 hours-a-day training schedule, including Pilates, fight choreography and stunt practice.
- Has danced from a very early age; ballet, tap-dancing, jazz/show and street funk to Argentinean Tango. Her interest in tango has led to her being asked to help teach beginner courses in Lund, Sweden.
- Tom Cruise chose her for Mission: Impossible - Národ grázlů (2015) after having seen her in the mini-series The White Queen (2013).
- Her mother helped ABBA translate the lyrics from their album 'Waterloo' from Swedish to English and was also the woman sitting cross-legged on a chair on the back of the cover of ABBA's 1975 self-titled album. Ferguson revealed this during her appearance on The Graham Norton Show on January 26, 2018.
- She performed her own singing in Reminiscence (2021) but in Největší showman (2017) her singing voice was dubbed by Loren Allred.
- From the age of thirteen, she worked as a model in magazines, for television/cinema commercials, and for different brand names (make-up, clothes, jewellery), etc.
- Attended an English-speaking school in Sweden and was raised bilingual, speaking Swedish and English.
- First Swedish actress to be nominated for a Golden Globe award (for The White Queen (2013)) in 15 years since Ann-Margret in 1999.
- The actresses who inspire her are Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren and Isabelle Huppert.
- Is often compared to fellow Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman. Her character in Mission: Impossible - Národ grázlů (2015) is named Ilsa, just like Bergman's character in Casablanca (1942). One of Rebecca's scenes in "Rogue Nation" was set in Casablanca. Her co-star Tom Cruise's first celebrity crush was Ingrid Bergman in Pověstný muž (1946).
- Stated her desire to work with director Tim Burton as well as actors Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Hugh Laurie and Helena Bonham Carter.
- Was considered for the lead role in Vetřelec: Covenant (2017).
- Her father is Swedish. Her mother, Rosemary Margaret Ferguson of Clan Ferguson, is English and moved to Sweden when she was 25 years old. Her maternal grandfather ... Ferguson of Clan Ferguson is Scottish and his wife her maternal grandmother ... Martin is from Ulster, Northern Ireland. Rebecca took her mother's surname as her stage name. While Rebecca is sometimes said to be closely related to The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, Rebecca denied this in a 2015 Daily Mail interview.
- Dated her ex-boyfriend, Ludwig Hallberg, from 2005, with whom she has one son, Isaac Hallberg (b. 2007), and with whom she lived from 2007 in Simrishamn, Skåne County, until they broke up in April 2015. Has one daughter, Saga (b. 2018), with her now-husband Rory, who can work from anywhere and with whom she lives between Simrishamn and Richmond, Greater-London, as it is close to Pinewood and Shepperton Studios.
- She graduated from music school Adolf Fredriks Musikskola in the spring of 1999.
- Was named one of Variety's "10 Actors to Watch" in 2015.
- Announced that she was six months pregnant with her second child during her appearance on The Graham Norton Show (2007) on January 26, 2018.
- Ranked #1 on IMDb STARmeter for three consecutive weeks - from August 10, 2015 to August 30, 2015.
- She's a fan of Perníkový táta (2008).
- Ranked #7 on IMDb's "Top Stars of 2015".
