Rebecca Ferguson
Birthdate: Oct 19, 1983
Birthplace: Sweden
Rebecca Ferguson (birthname: Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundstrom) is a Swedish-born actor best known for her repeated role as MI6 agent Ilsa Faust in the Mission: Impossible franchise and as Lady Jessica in the Dune franchise. Ferguson landed a supporting role in her feature debut in the Swedish slasher movie, Drowning Ghost (2004), with Rebecka Hemse, Jesper Salen, and Jenny Ulving under Mikael Hafstrom’s direction and released by Columbia TriStar Films AB.
Ferguson had her first co-starring role in director/writer/producer Richard Hobert’s Swedish drama, A One-Way Trip to Antibes (2011), with Sven-Bertil Taube and Dan Ekborg, which premiered at the Stockholm Film Festival (where Ferguson was nominated for the Rising Star Award) and grossed nearly $1.5 million globally. Ferguson co-starred with Gustaf Skarsgard (also an executive producer) and Anna Astrom in director/producer Mani Maserrat-Agah’s Swedish drama, VI (2013), written and produced by Jens Jonsson, and backed by Sonet Film AB/Café Cinema.
Rebecca Ferguson had a major role in her first Hollywood studio movie opposite star Dwayne Johnson (in the title role), Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Joseph Fiennes, Peter Mullan, and John Hurt in Hercules (2014), directed and produced by Brett Ratner and released by Paramount Pictures to a good $244 million global return. Ferguson took on one of her most visible roles as spy Ilsa Faust in Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation (2015), Mission: Impossible—Fallout (2018) and Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), all starring and produced by Tom Cruise and directed and written by Christopher McQuarrie, grossing a cumulative $2.7 billion globally for Paramount Pictures.l
Ferguson starred in director/producer Shamim Sarif’s Cold War spy drama, Despite the Falling Snow (2016), based on Sarif’s novel, co-starring Sam Reid, Charles Dance, Antje Traue, and Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and released by Altitude Film Distribution. Ferguson played a supporting role in the Stephen Frears-directed biopic, Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), starring Meryl Streep (in the title role, and Oscar-nominated for Best Actress), Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, and Nina Arianda, and grossing a fair $56 million for distributors 20th Century Fox (U.K.)/Pathe Distribution (France).
Rebecca Ferguson played lead support to star Emily Blunt in the psychological thriller backed by DreamWorks Pictures/reliance Entertainment/Marc Platt Productions, The Girl on the Train (2016), based on Paula Hawkins’ best-selling novel, with Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Allison Janney, Edgar Ramirez and Lisa Kudrow under Tate Taylor’s direction, earning a potent $173.2 million for Universal Pictures. Ferguson co-starred with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds in the sci-fi horror movie Life (2017), with Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, and Olga Dihovichnaya under Daniel Espinosa’s direction, launching at the South by Southwest Film Festival and grossing over $100 million for Columbia Pictures/Skydance/Sony Pictures Releasing.
Ferguson co-starred with Michael Fassbender in director Tomas Alfredson’s version of Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman (2017), written by Peter Straughan, Hossein Amini, a nd Søren Sveistrup, with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Val Kilmer, and J.K. Simmons, produced and distributed by Universal Pictures to a poor $43 million gross. Ferguson had a supporting role in the hit musical from Chernin Entertainment/Laurence Mark Productions and co-written by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon, The Greatest Showman (2017), starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, and Zendaya under Michael Gracey’s direction, and grossing a tremendous $459 million (based on estimated costs) for 20th Century Fox.
Rebecca Ferguson joined Ewan McGregor, Kyliegh Curran and Cliff Curtis in director/writer/editor Mike Flanagan’s screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep (2019), produced by Warner Bros. Pictures/Intrepid Pictures/Vertigo Entertainment and released to a disappointing $72.4 million global gross, and later re-released with a longer, three-hour director’s cut. Ferguson joined the cast of director/writer Joe Cornish’s urban fantasy, The Kid Who WouldBee King (2019), produced by Working Title Films/Big Talk Pictures, co-starring Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Tom Taylor, and Patrick Stewart, and was the second-to-last movie released by 20th Century Fox to a disappointing $32 million box office.
Ferguson joined her second franchise project as a supporting actor in the sequel, Men in Black: International (2019), the fourth entry in the movie series based on Lowell Cunningham’s and Sandy Carruthers’ comic book series, starring Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rafe Spall, Emma Thompson, and Liam Neeson under F. Gary Gray’s direction earned $254 million worldwide for Columbia Pictures/Amblin Entertainment/Sony Pictures Releasing. Ferguson co-starred with Thomas Bang in director/writer/producer Andre Costa’s Danish/Brazilian/Namibian comedy-drama, Cold Night (2019), with Michael Kastrupsen and Camilla Gottlieb, and which was shot in 2008 but not released until 2019.
Rebecca Ferguson reunited with co-star Hugh Jackman in director/writer/producer Lisa Joy’s tech noir, Reminiscence (2021), with Thandiwe Newton and Cliff Curtis, produced by FilmNation Entertainment/Michael De Luca Productions/Kilter Films and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures to a poor $16.4 million global gross (based on estimated costs). Ferguson landed the prime role of Lady Jessica in filmmaker Denis Villeneuve’s epic screen version of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic, Dune (2021), followed by Villeneuve’s sequels Dune: Part Two (2024) and Dune: Part Three (2026), all produced by Legendary Pictures and released by Warner Bros. Pictures, grossing a cumulative $1.12 billion through 2024.
Ferguson starred in director/producer Kathryn Bigelow’s political-military thriller, A House of Dynamite (2025), with a distinguished cast including Idris Elba, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, Greta Lee and Jason Clarke, and which premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival and received a theatrical and streaming release by Netflix. Ferguson then co-starred with Chris Pratt in the sci-fi thriller set in near-future Los Angeles, Mercy (2026), with Annabelle Wallis, Kylie Rogers, and Kali Reis under Timur Bekmambetov’s direction,n and which was released wide by Amazon MGM Studios (U.S.)/Sony Pictures Releasing International (International).
Rebecca Ferguson joined the cast as a new character in director Tom Harper’s and writer/creator Steven Knight’s big-screen extension of the British television series, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026), starring Cillian Murphy with returning Peaky regulars Sophie Rundle, Ned Dennehy and Stephen Graham and new cast members Tim Roth, Barry Keoghan and Jay Lycurgo, and which was distributed in cinemas and on streaming by Netflix. Ferguson played a supporting role in the ensemble of British-American co-production, The Magic Faraway Tree (2026), adapted by Simon Farnaby from Enid Blyton’s book series, starring Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Nonso Anozie, Nicola Coughlan, and Jessica Gunning under Ben Gregor’s direction, and released by Entertainment Film Distributors.
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Personal life
Rebecca Ferguson was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden by her Swedish-born father Gerrie and Scottish-Irish-Swedish mother Rosemary. Ferguson attended English-language schools growing up. Ferguson graduated from Adolf Fredrik’s Music School in 1999. Ferguson was in a relationship with psychosynthesis therapist Ludwig Hallberg from 2007 to 2015; the couple had one son, Isac. Ferguson has been married to Rory St. Clair Gainer since 2019; the couple has a daughter, Saga, and lives in two homes, one in the southern Swedish coastal town of Simrishamn and the other in Richmond in southwest London. Ferguson’s height is 5’ 5”. Ferguson’s estimated net worth is $6 million.
Rebecca Ferguson Movies
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Previous (22)
- 2026 |
- 2024 |
Dune: Part Two
Paul Atreides unites with the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future.
- 2023 |
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
- 2021 |
Dune: Part One
asLady Jessica Atreides
Paul Atreides arrives on Arrakis after his father accepts the stewardship of the dangerous planet. However, chaos ensues after a betrayal as forces clash to control melange, a precious resource.
- 2021 |
Reminiscence
asMae
Nick Bannister, a private investigator of the mind, navigates the alluring world of the past when his life is changed by new client Mae. A simple case becomes an obsession after she disappears and he fights to learn the truth about her.
- 2019 | Cold Night
- 2019 |
Doctor Sleep
asRose the Hat
Years following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.
- 2019 |
- 2019 |
The Kid Who Would Be King
asMorgana
Alex, a 12-year-old boy, and his friends fight an evil sorceress with the help of Excalibur, the sword of King Arthur, in a bid to save the world from her atrocities.
- 2018 |
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
A group of terrorists plans to detonate three plutonium cores for a simultaneous nuclear attack on different cities. Ethan Hunt, along with his IMF team, sets out to stop the carnage.
- 2017 |
The Greatest Showman
asJenny Lind
Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.
- 2017 |
The Snowman
asKatrine Bratt
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.
- 2017 |
- 2016 | Despite the Falling Snow
- 2016 |
The Girl on the Train
asAnna
A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life.
- 2016 | Florence Foster Jenkins
- 2016 |
Florence Foster Jenkins
asKathleen
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
- 2015 |
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
asIlsa Faust
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Ethan and his team take on their most impossible mission yet when they have to eradicate an international rogue organization as highly skilled as they are and committed to destroying the IMF.
- 2014 |
- 2013 | Vi
- 2011 | A One-Way Trip to Antibes
- 2004 | Drowning Ghost
Facts About Rebecca Ferguson
Discovery: Rebecca Ferguson was discovered by Swedish director Richard Hobert, who saw her shopping at a small-town market.
First Tango: Ferguson taught Argentinian Tango as a member of a Swedish dance company; Ferguson has also danced ballet, tap dance, jazz and Broadway-style show dance from an early age.
Bilingual: Rebecca Ferguson was raised in a bilingual household, speaking in both Swedish and English.
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