Vicky Krieps is a Luxembourger actress, who has starred in a number of Luxembourg, French and German productions. She played a leading role in the Academy Award-winning film Phantom Thread.
Life and career
Krieps was born in Luxembourg City, the daughter of a Luxembourger father, who managed a film distribution company, and of a German mother. She is the granddaughter of Luxembourg politician and war-time member of the Luxembourg Resistance, Robert Krieps. Krieps had her first acting experiences at the Lycée de Garçonssecondary school in Luxembourg, also receiving training at the Conservatoire of Luxembourg City. In 2004, she was far from convinced that an acting career would be her future. Rather than enrolling in one of the drama schools, she participated in a social project at the primary school of a South African township near Knysna. This confirmed her resolve to study acting, with the goal of performing on theatre stages. She enrolled in the Zurich University of the Arts while gathering acting experience at the Zurich playhouse. Krieps has played numerous roles in Luxembourgish productions and Luxembourgish-foreign coproductions before taking on increasingly important roles in foreign productions, such as Hanna, the biopic Rommel, Before the Winter Chill and the feature filmElly Beinhorn – Alleinflug, a biopic about the German aviation pioneer Elly Beinhorn. In 2017, she had her first leading English role, opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, in Phantom Thread. Receiving critical acclaim for her portrayal of Alma, Dan Jolin of Empire stated that Krieps "can hold her own opposite a titan like Day-Lewis," while David Edelstein of Vulture wrote that she is "bewitchingly lucent, her face just masklike enough to make our sudden awareness of all her dark thoughts a shock." Krieps co-starred in Sony and MGM's thriller sequel The Girl in the Spider's Web, playing Erika Berger, publisher of the fictional Millennium magazine. In the same year she also played the female lead, morally compromised Alsatian interpreter Simone Strasser, in Sky’s series made for TV, Das Boot, and subsequently in its second series.
Personal life
Krieps is in a relationship with German actor Jonas Laux. The couple have a daughter, Elisa, and live in Berlin.
