Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström is a Swedish actress who began her career in 1999-2000 on the Swedish soap opera Nya tider.
She also participated in the slasher film Drowning Ghost in 2004 and received international acclaim for her depiction of Elizabeth Woodville in the British miniseries The White Queen in 2013, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film.
Ferguson had her breakthrough in Nya tider as Anna Gripenhielm, and she later starred as Chrissy Eriksson in the Swedish-American soap Ocean Ave. in 2002. In 2011, Swedish director Richard Hobert discovered her at a market in Simrishamn and cast her in his film A One-way Trip to Antibes. She also participated in the 2013 film VI opposite Gustaf Skarsgrd.
Ferguson’s most noteworthy role was as Ilsa Faust in the fifth Mission: Impossible film, Rogue Nation, in 2015. Critics appreciated her performance, and Tom Cruise chose her for the role after watching her in The White Queen.
In 2018, she returned to the sixth Mission: Impossible film, Fallout, which was her biggest commercial triumph to date. Ferguson won the Best Actress prize at the Prague Independent Film Festival in 2016 for her dual roles as Katya and Lauren in Despite the Falling Snow. That same year, she appeared in Florence Foster Jenkins and The Girl on the Train.
Rebecca Ferguson Parents: Meet Rosemary Ferguson and Olov Sundström
Rosemary Ferguson and Olov Eric Percy Sundström are Rebecca Ferguson’s parents. Her mother, who is British and has Scottish and Northern Irish ancestry, came to Sweden when she was 25 years old. Her father is Swedish. Rebecca studied in Sweden and is a native English and Swedish speaker.