Who is Elizabeth Debicki who will play Lady Di in "The Crown"?

• Elizabeth Debicki is the female star of Tenet , Christopher Nolan's blockbuster.
• The Australian has just been chosen to play Princess Diana in Seasons 5 and 6 of The Crown .
• 20 Minutes lifts the veil on this rising Hollywood star who dreamed of being a star dancer.

She is 1.88 m tall and does not hesitate to wear heels! Elizabeth Debicki is the female star of Tenet , the blockbuster anticipated as Christopher Nolan's Messiah. The actress was chosen to play Lady Diana in seasons 5 and 6 of Netflix's premium series, The Crown . But who is this Australian who is grabbing the most coveted roles in Hollywood?

The rising star dreamed of following in her parents' footsteps and becoming a ballerina. His Polish father trained as a dancer in Warsaw, and he met his Australian mother while they were dancing at the Lido in Paris. The actress was born in the French capital on August 24, 1990.

A childhood in dance

Her family moved to Melbourne when she was 5 years old. Her parents run a ballet school: “I grew up in a madhouse and sometimes I wonder where childhood is when we dance every day,” says the eldest of three brothers and sisters Debicki in the columns from the Swiss site Bluewin. Her large size prevents her from embracing a ballerina career. “But it taught me a lot of discipline, which helps me as an actress,” she adds.

Elizabeth Debicki envisages a time studying law before moving into drama at the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne. She then devotes a boundless passion for her compatriot Cate Blanchett. “She was really a role model when I was growing up. I fed on everything she did, every movie, ”she told The Independent in 2016.

A "baptism of fire" at Baz Luhrmann

She made her film debut in the Australian film My Best Men . Director Baz Luhrmann spots her as he watches audition recordings in search of new talent for his upcoming film, The Great Gatsby . Only three months after graduating, she flies to Hollywood to take part in tests alongside Toby Maguire. She landed the role of Jordan Baker, the best friend of the heroine Daisy, in the sumptuous film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel from 2013.

A "baptism of fire" alongside confirmed stars like Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan. “For my first scene […], there were really 400 extras and seven cameras on cranes […]. I thought it was normal, because I had never done anything important, ”she explains in an interview with The Guardian.

Her performance did not go unnoticed as she won the AACTA Award (the Australian equivalent of our Césars) for best actress in a supporting role.

A play with her idol, Cate Blanchett

She co-stars with Isabelle Huppert and Cate Blanchett in Jean Genet's play  Les Bonnes at the Sydney Theater Company. “It was completely surreal working with her,” says Elizabeth Debicki of her childhood idol. "Always wash your socks" is the advice the Australian superstar gives him. Advice that she herself had received from Meryl Streep!

In 2015, she appeared in three films: the climbing thriller Everest alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley, the spy film Very Special Agents: Guy Ritchie's UNCLE Code (for which she is learning to drive) and the adaptation. of Macbeth Justin Kurzel with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.

A priestess in a blockbuster

In 2016, she landed the lead role in the Australian series The Kettering, which earned her the AACTA for Best Actress in a Drama Series. The same year, she gives the reply to Hugh Laurie in the miniseries The Night Manager , adapted from a novel by John le Carré and co-produced by BBC One and AMC. John le Carré will say that she returned his character, Jed , more "interesting" than it was in her book.

In 2017, she lends her features to Ayesha, priestess of the Sovereigns, in the blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy and her voice to one of the characters in Valérian et la Cité des mille planètes . She then appears in The Recomposed Past , the biopic on director Jennifer Fox with Laura Dern presented in competition at the 2018 Deauville Festival, the third installment of the "Cloverfield" franchise on Netflix, the biopic Vita & Virginia on the relationship between Vita Sackville -West and Virginia Woolf and replaces Jennifer Lawrence in Steve McQueen's Widows .

Elizabeth Debicki will play Princess Diana in the final two seasons of The Crown (Seasons 5 and 6). pic.twitter.com/Z3CjHuJ56B

In addition to Tenet , Elizabeth Debicki is currently starring The Burnt Orange Heresy (a film that has no release date in France yet) with Mick Jagger and Donald Sutherland. She will soon appear in her villainous costume in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 before playing Lady Di in seasons 5 and 6 of The Crown series .

Deliberately silent on her private life and absent from social networks ("A kind of foreign world for me", she explains to the Guardian .), Elizabeth Debicki is preparing quietly, but surely to reign over Hollywood.

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