Happy Birthday: Rebecca Ferguson

Rebecca Ferguson

Born: October 19, 1983 in Sweden

[on when she heard about the job in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)] I was on a camel! In the desert. In Ouarzazat [Morocco]. Filming The Red Tent (2014) for Lifetime. I had just popped over to London to meet Tom Cruise to see if the chemistry worked and 12 hours later I’m back on the camel, wrapping up production and I got a phone call. They say: ‘You’ve got the next lead!’ So I’ll be back in Ouarzazat but on a motorbike! And there I was a month later.

[on what inspired her to become an actress] I wasn’t brought up in the acting world-my father is a lawyer. But as a teenager, I had the opportunity to audition for this television series: a daytime soap opera. And I got the lead part. I had just finished ninth grade in school, so I skipped what we called gymnasium and started working instead. And realized that this is a life I can see myself living.