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Rebecca Ferguson

Acting

Born October 19, 1983 · Stockholm, Sweden

Also known as Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström

Biography

Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström (born 19 October 1983) is a Swedish actress. She is bilingual and has worked extensively in Sweden, Great Britain, and mainly in the United States. Ferguson began her television acting career in 1999 with the Swedish soap opera Nya Tider, and she made her motion picture debut in 2004 with the Swedish slasher film Drowning Ghost. She came to international prominence with her portrayal of Elizabeth Woodville in the British BBC drama The White Queen (2013), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film. Ferguson starred as MI6 agent Ilsa Faust, opposite Tom Cruise, in three of the Mission: Impossible films: Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), and Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). She played Jenny Lind in the musical film The Greatest Showman (2017), starred in the horror films Life (2017) and Doctor Sleep(2019), and had supporting parts in the comedy-drama Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), the thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), and the science fiction films Dune(2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024). In 2023, she began starring in the Apple TV+science fiction series Silo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rebecca Ferguson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography30 titles

Dune: Part Two

2024as Jessica

Silo

2023as Juliette Nichols

The Greatest Showman

2017as Jenny Lind

Dune: Part One

2021as Lady Jessica Atreides

Little Match Girl

2018as Mother

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023as Ilsa Faust

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

2018as Ilsa Faust

Wallander

2008as Louise Fredman

The White Queen

2013as Elizabeth Woodville

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

2026as Kaulo / Zelda

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

2015as Ilsa Faust

The Graham Norton Show

2007as Self

Mercy

2026as Judge Maddox

Doctor Sleep

2019as Rose the Hat

Wild Scandinavia

as Narrator

The Red Tent

2014as Dinah

Florence Foster Jenkins

2016as Kathleen Weatherley

Reminiscence

2021as Mae

Life

2017as Miranda North

A House of Dynamite

2025as Captain Olivia Walker

The Girl on the Train

2016as Anna Watson

The Kid Who Would Be King

2019as Morgana

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015as Self

Men in Black: International

2019as Riza

Hercules

2014as Ergenia

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014as Self

Despite the Falling Snow

2016as Katya Grinkova / Lauren Grinkova

The Jonathan Ross Show

2011as Self

The Snowman

2017as Katrine Bratt

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014as Self - Guest