Elizabeth Debicki is an Australian actress. After studying drama at the Victorian College of the Arts, she made her film debut with a brief role in the Australian comedy A Few Best Men (2011).
Debicki won the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in The Great Gatsby (2013). She received critical acclaim for her performance in Widows (2018) and later co-starred in Tenet (2020).
She portrays Ayesha in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Vol. 3 (2023).
Debicki had a leading role in the 2019 thriller The Burnt Orange Heresy, in which she starred opposite Claes Bang and Mick Jagger. The following year, she starred in Christopher Nolan’s spy film Tenet (2020) as Kat, the estranged wife of Kenneth Branagh’s character.
Debicki will next portray Diana, Princess of Wales in the final two seasons of the Netflix period drama series The Crown, taking over from Emma Corrin.
Elizabeth Debicki Nationality: Is Elizabeth Debicki polish?
Debicki is half Polish, and half Australian. Elizabeth Debicki was born on 24 August 1990 in Paris to a Polish father and an Australian mother of Irish descent.
Her parents were both ballet dancers, who met while performing in a show together When she was five, the family moved to Glen Waverley in Melbourne, Australia. The eldest of three children, she has a younger sister and a brother.
Debicki became interested in ballet at an early age and trained as a dancer until deciding to switch to theatre. A student at Huntingtower School in eastern Melbourne, she achieved two perfect study scores in Drama and English and was the school’s dux when she graduated in 2007.
In 2010, she completed a degree in drama at the Victorian College of the Arts. In August 2009, she was the recipient of a Richard Pratt Bursary for outstanding acting students in their second year of training. Debicki is 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall.