1. Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundstrom was born on 19 October 1983 and is a Swedish actress.
19 Facts About Rebecca Ferguson
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Rebecca Ferguson came to international prominence with her portrayal of Elizabeth Woodville in the British drama The White Queen, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film.
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Rebecca Ferguson played Jenny Lind in the musical film The Greatest Showman, starred in the horror films Life and Doctor Sleep, and had supporting parts in the comedy-drama Florence Foster Jenkins, the thriller The Girl on the Train, and the science fiction films Dune and Dune: Part Two.
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Rebecca Ferguson was born in Stockholm and grew up in the Vasastan district in central Stockholm.
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Rebecca Ferguson's mother helped ABBA translate the lyrics from their 1974 album Waterloo into English and appeared on the sleeve of the band's 1975 self-titled album.
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Rebecca Ferguson attended an English-medium school in Sweden and was raised bilingual, speaking Swedish and English.
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Rebecca Ferguson attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm and graduated in 1999.
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Rebecca Ferguson has danced from a very early age; she danced ballet, tap-dancing, jazz, street funk and tango.
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Rebecca Ferguson 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.
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Unsure if she wanted to act, Rebecca 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.
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Rebecca Ferguson came to prominence as upper-class girl Anna Gripenhielm in the Swedish soap opera Nya tider.
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Rebecca Ferguson went on to later play Chrissy Eriksson in the Swedish-American soap Ocean Ave.
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Later that same year, Rebecca Ferguson appeared in Stephen Frears's Florence Foster Jenkins opposite Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, and Tate Taylor's thriller book adaptation The Girl on the Train starring Emily Blunt.
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In 2017, Rebecca 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.
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Rebecca Ferguson co-starred in Doctor Sleep, the adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name; played the villain Morgana in Joe Cornish's adventure film The Kid Who Would Be King; and co-starred as Riza Stavros in F Gary Gray's science fiction comedy film Men in Black: International.
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In 2023, Rebecca Ferguson starred in and executive produced the Apple TV+ science fiction series Silo.
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In 2007, Rebecca Ferguson gave birth to her first child, a son, with her then-boyfriend Ludwig Hallberg, a psychosynthesis therapist.
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Since 2016, Rebecca Ferguson has been in a relationship with businessman Rory St Clair Gainer, with whom she has a daughter who was born in May 2018.
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Rebecca Ferguson has a preference for going barefoot, a habit that has influenced her creative choices for the costume of Rose the Hat in Doctor Sleep.