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Rebecca Ferguson
Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström (born 19 October 1983) is a Swedish actress. Known for her roles on film and television, she has acted in several blockbuster franchises and Hollywood films. She has received nominations for a Golden Globe Award and two Critics' Choice Awards.
Born to a British mother and a Swedish father, Ferguson began her television acting career in 1999 with the Swedish soap opera Nya tider and made her motion picture acting debut in 2004 with the Swedish slasher film Drowning Ghost. She came to international prominence with her portrayal of Elizabeth Woodville in the British drama The White Queen (2013), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film.
In American cinema, Ferguson portrayed MI6 agent Ilsa Faust, opposite Tom Cruise, in three of the Mission: Impossible films: Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), and Dead Reckoning (2023) and Lady Jessica in the science fiction films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024). She played Jenny Lind in the musical film The Greatest Showman (2017), and acted in the horror films Life (2017) and Doctor Sleep (2019), the comedy-drama Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), and the political drama A House of Dynamite (2025).
Since 2023, she has starred in the Apple TV+ science fiction series Silo playing an intelligent engineer in an underground community, a role for which she has received nominations for a Saturn Award and a Satellite Award.
Ferguson was born in Stockholm and grew up in the city’s Vasastan district. Her mother, Rosemary Ferguson, is English, and moved from Britain to Sweden at age 25. Her mother helped ABBA translate the lyrics from their 1974 album Waterloo into English and also appeared on the sleeve of the band's 1975 self-titled album.[better source needed] Her father, Olov Sundström, is a Swedish businessman. Ferguson took her mother's surname as her stage name. Her maternal grandmother is Northern Irish, and her maternal grandfather is Scottish.
Ferguson attended an English-medium school in Sweden and was raised bilingual, speaking Swedish and English. She attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm and graduated in 1999.
From the age of 13, she worked as a model and appeared in magazines and on television commercials for cosmetic, apparel, and jewellery advertisements. Ferguson has danced from a very early age; she danced ballet, tap-dancing, jazz, street funk and tango. She taught Argentine tango at a dance company in Lund, Sweden for a few years while she continued her work on several short art film projects. Unsure if she wanted to act, Ferguson had other jobs, such as working at a daycare centre, as a nanny, at a jewellery shop, at a shoe shop and at a Korean restaurant.
Ferguson came to prominence as upper-class girl Anna Gripenhielm in the Swedish soap opera Nya tider (1999–2000). She went on to later play Chrissy Eriksson in the Swedish-American soap Ocean Ave. (2002). In 2004, she made her feature film debut in Mikael Håfström's horror film Drowning Ghost and later had a guest role in Wallander (2008). Swedish director Richard Hobert spotted her at the Simrishamn town market in 2011, which led to her starring in his film A One-way Trip to Antibes, which earned her a nomination for the Rising Star award at the Stockholm International Film Festival. In 2013, she co-starred in the film Us alongside Gustaf Skarsgård.
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Rebecca Ferguson
Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström (born 19 October 1983) is a Swedish actress. Known for her roles on film and television, she has acted in several blockbuster franchises and Hollywood films. She has received nominations for a Golden Globe Award and two Critics' Choice Awards.
Born to a British mother and a Swedish father, Ferguson began her television acting career in 1999 with the Swedish soap opera Nya tider and made her motion picture acting debut in 2004 with the Swedish slasher film Drowning Ghost. She came to international prominence with her portrayal of Elizabeth Woodville in the British drama The White Queen (2013), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film.
In American cinema, Ferguson portrayed MI6 agent Ilsa Faust, opposite Tom Cruise, in three of the Mission: Impossible films: Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), and Dead Reckoning (2023) and Lady Jessica in the science fiction films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024). She played Jenny Lind in the musical film The Greatest Showman (2017), and acted in the horror films Life (2017) and Doctor Sleep (2019), the comedy-drama Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), and the political drama A House of Dynamite (2025).
Since 2023, she has starred in the Apple TV+ science fiction series Silo playing an intelligent engineer in an underground community, a role for which she has received nominations for a Saturn Award and a Satellite Award.
Ferguson was born in Stockholm and grew up in the city’s Vasastan district. Her mother, Rosemary Ferguson, is English, and moved from Britain to Sweden at age 25. Her mother helped ABBA translate the lyrics from their 1974 album Waterloo into English and also appeared on the sleeve of the band's 1975 self-titled album.[better source needed] Her father, Olov Sundström, is a Swedish businessman. Ferguson took her mother's surname as her stage name. Her maternal grandmother is Northern Irish, and her maternal grandfather is Scottish.
Ferguson attended an English-medium school in Sweden and was raised bilingual, speaking Swedish and English. She attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm and graduated in 1999.
From the age of 13, she worked as a model and appeared in magazines and on television commercials for cosmetic, apparel, and jewellery advertisements. Ferguson has danced from a very early age; she danced ballet, tap-dancing, jazz, street funk and tango. She taught Argentine tango at a dance company in Lund, Sweden for a few years while she continued her work on several short art film projects. Unsure if she wanted to act, Ferguson had other jobs, such as working at a daycare centre, as a nanny, at a jewellery shop, at a shoe shop and at a Korean restaurant.
Ferguson came to prominence as upper-class girl Anna Gripenhielm in the Swedish soap opera Nya tider (1999–2000). She went on to later play Chrissy Eriksson in the Swedish-American soap Ocean Ave. (2002). In 2004, she made her feature film debut in Mikael Håfström's horror film Drowning Ghost and later had a guest role in Wallander (2008). Swedish director Richard Hobert spotted her at the Simrishamn town market in 2011, which led to her starring in his film A One-way Trip to Antibes, which earned her a nomination for the Rising Star award at the Stockholm International Film Festival. In 2013, she co-starred in the film Us alongside Gustaf Skarsgård.
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