Comparisons not only to the iconic, charismatic, beloved character, but to colleagues who had the honor and burden of bringing her to the big screen before her, see below Naomi Watts and Kristen Stewart. Elizabeth Debicki plays Lady Diana in the fifth season. Crown, released on Netflix on November 9, and will also appear in the next and final series inspired by English royalty. An interpretation enthusiastically received by critics and the public (her name, like the name of the princess of the people, has been flashing on social networks for several days, causing virtual applause for her work). But who is this Australian actress who took over from Emma Corrin to play Lady Dee in her final years?

Elisabeth was born in 1990 in Paris to a Polish and Irish-Australian mother, who were both dancers. At the age of five, she moved with her family to Melbourne, Australia, where she immediately began to develop her passion for classical dance. “I have always enjoyed being on stage,” the actress said. Sydney Morning Herald in 2018 “Even when I was little, this was the place where I was happiest. There is nothing stronger than the emotion of meeting a faceless crowd.” The transition from dance to theater is natural and occurs during school years. In 2010, he graduated from the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts in acting, and his first role came the following year.

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Her film debut was a small role as a secretary in a romantic comedy directed by Australian director Stephan Elliott. Three men and a sheep. In 2013, the first call comes in from Hollywood: Baz Luhrmann hires Elizabeth to play Jordan Baker in a film. The Great Gatsby, shot and filmed in his home country of Australia. From June to July of the same year, she plays Madame in a theatrical performance. it serves her Jean Genet with Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert, first with the Sydney Theater Company and then on Broadway. In 2015 gives Lady Macduff’s face Macbeththen to Aisha Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 As well as Guardians of the Galaxy, Part 3.

In 2018, she was awarded the Chopard Trophy at the Cannes Film Festival and received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in the historical drama. Life and Virginia along with English actress Gemma Arterton. Also in 2018, he gets one of the main roles in the film Widows are a criminal legacy Directed by Steve McQueen. In 2020, he is in the cast of the long-awaited the keeper Christopher Nolan with Robert Pattinson and John David Washington. That same year, she landed the role of Diana in Crown: impressive resemblance, especially in some scenes such as the dress of revenge, not only in appearance, but also in expressions and gestures.

To create “her” Diana, Elisabeth drew on “a vast archive, which is part of the research department, which is an endless trove of materials. In particular, video clips helped me, frames that for some reason became television services and therefore they were just images without sound, without sound, ”he said at a press conference in London on the eve of the launch Crown 5 on Netflix, “they were precious because they allowed me then, working with an acting coach and on voice, to recreate the body language, its movements.” Mission accomplished.