ACTOR
Elizabeth Debicki
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- #001
Elizabeth Debicki's parents were both professional ballet dancers, and she always assumed she would go into the family business. By the age of 12, however, she was taller than all of her teachers. She began focusing on contemporary dance instead, and later fell in love with acting somewhere along the way and applied to drama school.
- #002
Debicki was offered the role of Kat in Tenet (2020) without having to audition, but she insisted on doing one anyway. It was genuinely important to her to know she could do what Christopher Nolan was looking for, and according to the director, she came in and blew everyone away.
- #003
Debicki reportedly beat out Charlize Theron and Australian Rose Byrne for her role in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015).
- #004
After graduating from high school at 17, Debicki had to choose between studying drama at the University of Melbourne and taking an academic scholarship to law school. She said her parents were "rightfully concerned" when she decided to drop law school and train as an actor.
- #005
Debicki's performance as golfer Jordan Baker in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013) ranked 32nd on IndieWire's list of the 50 Best Film Performances of the Decade [2019].
- #006
Although The Great Gatsby (2013) was Debicki's first Hollywood role and only her second feature film, it was shot in her home country of Australia. Her first trip to America was for director Baz Luhrmann's test film with Tobey Maguire.
- #007
In 2015, following her role in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), Macbeth (2015) and Everest (2015), Debicki was honored as Breakthrough Star of the Year at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. Previous recipients of the Breakthrough Award include Chris Hemsworth, Margot Robbie, Joel Edgerton and Mia Wasikowska.
- #008
Elizabeth Debicki has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since 2018.
- #009
Debicki's performance in the all-female heist film Widows (2018) ranked 8th on IndieWire's list of the 16 Best Film Performances by Actresses of 2018.
- #010
Debicki made her feature film debut in a small role as a secretary in director Stephan Elliott's Australian wedding comedy A Few Best Men (2011). It was her first role after graduating from drama school. She was still only 21 when the film premiered on 14 October 2011 at the Mill Valley Film Festival in San Rafael, California.
- #011
Debicki was nominated for the 2014 Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for her stage performance in the Sydney Theatre Company production of Jean Genet's "The Maids," directed by Andrew Upton.
- #012
Debicki had no driving experience before taking her role in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015).
- #013
At the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Debicki was awarded the Trophée Chopard alongside actor Joe Alwyn. The Chopard Trophy is given by a jury of professionals to two young actors to recognize and encourage their careers. Established in 2001, it has been presented at the Cannes Film Festival every year since.
- #014
Debicki was on the shortlist of actresses competing alongside Katherine Waterston and Kate Upton for the female lead in the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016). The role went to Waterston.
- #015
Debicki appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair's 25th Annual Hollywood Issue alongside Nicholas Hoult, Rami Malek, Chadwick Boseman, Saoirse Ronan, Tessa Thompson, Henry Golding, Yalitza Aparicio, Regina King, Timothée Chalamet and John David Washington.
- #016
Elizabeth Debicki is the eldest of three children. She has a sister and a brother.
- #017
Debicki became the 14th recipient of Women in Film's Max Mara Face of the Future Award. She was honored at the 2019 Women in Film Awards, held on 12 June at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.
- #018
Debicki auditioned alongside Tatiana Maslany for the female lead in Gemini Man (2019). Actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead ultimately won the role.
- #019
Debicki was initially cast as Una in The Dressmaker (2015) and joined the cast in early May 2014, but that October she left to take the lead role in the Australian series The Kettering Incident (2016). Interestingly, she was replaced in the film by Sacha Horler, one of her co-stars on the series.
- #020
Elizabeth Debicki's godmother is the actress Haydn Gwynne.
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