Vanessa Kirby (born 18 April 1988) is an English stage, TV and film actress.
She starred as Estella in the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations in 2011, as Joanna in Richard Curtis' romantic comedy About Time in 2013, and as Princess Margaret in Peter Morgan's Netflix series The Crown. She is known mostly for her stage work, with Variety in 2016 calling her "the outstanding stage actress of her generation, capable of the most unexpected choices."
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.