Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson hasn’t done a TON of frock flicks, but she’s done a few! And she’ll be starring in The Immortal Man, the upcoming Peaky Blinders movie, which you can see a glimpse of at MaxBlizz. So, let’s run her down!
Queen Elizabeth in The White Queen (2013)
The TV adaptation of the Philippa Fucking Gregory novel about Elizabeth Woodville, queen of England.
Ergenia in Hercules (2014)
A feature film starring Dwayne Johnson (“The Rock”) as the ancient Greek hero. Ferguson’s character is “the Princess of Thrace.”
Dinah in The Red Tent (2014)
The TV miniseries adaptation of a modern novel about Biblical characters. Dinah is the daughter of Jacob and Leah, sister of Joseph if that means anything to you.
Katya/Lauren in Despite the Falling Snow (2016)
“In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician – and falls in love with him” (IMDB).
Kathleen in Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
The biopic about a real-life New York heiress who tried to be a professional singer, despite being terrible at it. Set in the 1940s.
Jenny Lind in The Greatest Showman (2017)
A fictionalized musical biopic about showman/entertainer P.T. Barnum (1810-91). It makes slightly more sense that Ferguson was cast as Jenny Lind now that I know she’s Swedish.
What’s your favorite of Rebecca Ferguson’s few frock flick roles?
It’s true that loose uncovered hair was a thing for 15th-16th century queens’ coronations, but holding a 20th-century British field-marshal’s baton with the George and the Dragon finial snapped off instead of a sceptre, was not! (And it has literally just been snapped off. In lighter, sharper versions of that still you can see a broken end of the missing figurine; they didn’t even bother to file the thing off neatly.)