In 2018, during her appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Ferguson revealed that her mother had actually worked with ABBA. In 2017, Ferguson played the female lead in Daniel Espinosa's sci-fi horror Life, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds, co-starred in Tomas Alfredson's crime thriller The Snowman, alongside Michael Fassbender and Charlotte Gainsbourg, and starred as Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind in the musical film The Greatest Showman, with Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams. Later that same year, Ferguson appeared in Stephen Frears's Florence Foster Jenkins alongside Meryl Streep, and Tate Taylor's thriller book adaptation The Girl on the Train. For her performance in the film, she won the Best Actress award at the 2016 Prague Independent Film Festival. She played the dual roles of Katya and Lauren in the Cold War espionage thriller directed by Shamim Sarif, Despite the Falling Snow (2016), opposite Sam Reid and Charles Dance. It is Ferguson's biggest commercial success to date.

She reprised her role in the sixth Mission: Impossible film, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, in 2018. Tom Cruise handpicked Ferguson to star opposite him in the film after watching her in The White Queen. In 2015, Ferguson played Ilsa Faust, the female lead in the fifth Mission: Impossible film, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, for which she received critical acclaim.

Ferguson's performance in The White Queen was met with critical praise, and earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film. In August 2012, it was announced Ferguson had been cast to play Elizabeth Woodville in the ten-part BBC historical television drama The White Queen (2013), based on Philippa Gregory's The Cousins' War novels about the women of the Wars of the Roses. She appeared in the horror film Drowning Ghost (2004) and the 2013 film VI alongside Gustaf Skarsgård. 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. She went on to later play Chrissy Eriksson in the Swedish-American soap Ocean Ave. Career įerguson alongside Steven Gätjen at the world premiere of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in Vienna in 2015įerguson came to prominence as upper-class girl Anna Gripenhielm in the Swedish soap opera Nya tider (1999–2000). 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. 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. Ferguson has danced from a very early age she danced ballet, tap-dancing, jazz, street funk and tango. įrom the age of 13, she worked as a model and appeared in magazines and on television commercials for cosmetic, apparel, and jewellery advertisements.

Ferguson attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm and graduated in 1999. She attended an English-medium school in Sweden and was raised bilingual, speaking Swedish and English.

Ferguson took her mother's surname as her stage name. Her maternal grandmother is Northern Irish, and her maternal grandfather is Scottish. Her mother, Rosemary Ferguson, is English, and moved from Britain to Sweden at the age of 25. She portrayed Lady Jessica in the sci-fi epic Dune (2021).įerguson was born in Stockholm and grew up in the Vasastan district in central Stockholm. She 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 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.įerguson starred as MI6 agent Ilsa Faust in the action spy film Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) and its sequel Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), both with Tom Cruise. 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). Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström (born 19 October 1983) is a Swedish actress.

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