Rebecca Ferguson, born Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström on October 19, 1983, in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish actress known for her versatile and compelling performances [1]. She began her television acting career in 1999 with the Swedish soap opera Nya tider and made her motion picture debut in 2004 with the Swedish slasher film Drowning Ghost [1].

Ferguson gained international prominence with her portrayal of Elizabeth Woodville in the British drama The White Queen (2013), earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film [1]. She is widely recognized for her role as MI6 agent Ilsa Faust in the Mission: Impossible film series, appearing alongside Tom Cruise in Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), and Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) [1].

Her filmography includes notable roles in The Greatest Showman (2017), where she played Jenny Lind, and in the horror films Life (2017) and Doctor Sleep (2019) [1]. Ferguson has also appeared 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)[1]. In 2023, she began starring in the Apple TV+ science fiction series Silo [1].

Raised bilingual in Swedish and English, Ferguson attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm and graduated in 1999 [1]. She has a background in dance, including ballet, tap-dancing, jazz, street funk, and Argentine tango, which she taught at a dance company in Lund, Sweden [1]. Her mother, Rosemary Ferguson, is English and contributed to translating ABBA's lyrics for their 1974 album Waterloo [1].

Ferguson has two children and has been married to Rory St. Clair Gainer since 2018[1].