Rebecca Ferguson children-Swedish actress, Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström was born October 19th, 1983 in Stockholm, Sweden.

She was reared bilingually, speaking both Swedish and English, and went to an English-medium school in Sweden. Ferguson gradu ated in 1999 from Stockholm’s Adolf Fredrik’s Music School.

Since she was 13, she has worked as a model for advertisements for clothing, jewelry, and cosmetics in publications and on television.

From a very young age, Ferguson has been dancing. She has studied ballet, tap dancing, jazz, street funk, and tango. While continuing to work on a number of short art cinema projects, she spent a few years instructing Argentine tango at a dance company in Lund, Sweden.

Ferguson, who wasn’t sure she wanted to be an actress, also worked as a nanny, at a daycare facility, in a jewelry store, a shoe store, and a Korean restaurant.

Rebecca Ferguson career

Ferguson rose to fame in the Swedish serial series Nya Tider (1999–2000) as the affluent teenager Anna Gripenhielm.

Later, in 2002, she took up the role of Chrissy Eriksson in the Swedish-American soap opera Ocean Ave. She was discovered by Swedish director Richard Hobert at the Simrishamn Town Market in 2011 and went on to star in his movie A One-way Trip to Antibes.

Alongside Gustaf Skarsgrd, she starred in the 2004 horror movie Drowning Ghost and the 2013 thriller VI.

Ferguson was cast to play Elizabeth Woodville in the ten-part BBC historical television drama The White Queen (2013), which is based on Philippa Gregory’s The Cousins’ War novels about the ladies of the Wars of the Roses, in August 2012, according to the announcement.

Fergus on received positive reviews for her work in The White Queen, which led to a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film.

Ferguson drew praise from critics for her role as Ilsa Faust, the female lead in the fifth Mission: Impossible movie, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, which was released in 2015.

After seeing Ferguson in The White Queen, Tom Cruise personally chose her to play his co-star in the movie. In the sixth Mission: Impossible movie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, released in 2018, she returned to the character.

It is Ferguson’s greatest business achievement to date. In Shamim Sarif’s 2016 Cold War spy thriller Despite the Falling Snow, she costarred with Sam Reid and Charles Dance in the twin characters of Katya and Lauren.

She took home the Best Actress prize at the 2016 Prague Independent Film Festival for her portrayal in the movie.

Later that year, Ferguson co-starred with Meryl Streep in Tate Taylor’s adaptation of the mystery novel The Girl on the Train and Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins.

In 2017, Ferguson co-starred in Tomas Alfredson’s crime thriller The Snowman with Michael Fassbender and Charlotte Gainsbourg, played the female lead in Daniel Espinosa’s sci-fi horror film Life with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds, and played the Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind in Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams’ musical The Greatest Showman.

In 2019, Ferguson had a number of significant film roles, including a costarring part in Doctor Sleep, the movie version of the same-named Stephen King book. In Denis Villeneuve’s Dune adaption, which was released in 2021, she portrayed Lady Jessica.

Does Rebecca Ferguson have any children?

Ferguson had a son with her ex-partner, Ludwig Hallberg. After they broke up and she moved on with her husband, Rory, she also had a daughter with him.

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