Vicky Krieps (born 4 October 1983) is a Luxembourgish-German actress. She has appeared in a number of American, Luxembourgish, French, and German productions. Her breakout role was in the period film Phantom Thread (2017).
Vicky Krieps was born on 4 October 1983[1] in Hesperange, Luxembourg[2][3] the daughter of a Luxembourgish father, who managed a film distribution company, and German mother.[4][5] Her father, Bob Krieps, is the director general of the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg,[6] the former director of Sacem Luxembourg,[7] and the former president of the Luxembourg Film Fund.[8][9][10] Several of her films have been funded by the Luxembourg Film Fund,[11] which is supervised by the Ministry of Culture, which then decides which films will be funded by state subsidies.[12][13][14] Her paternal grandfather, Robert Krieps, was a politician, war-time member of the Luxembourg Resistance,[5] and Luxembourg's Minister of Justice, National Education and Culture in the 1970s and 1980s.[15]
She had her career breakthrough starring opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in the period film Phantom Thread (2017). The film revolves around the romantic relationship between an older man, a fashion designer, and a younger woman.[17][18] Receiving critical acclaim for her role, 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."[19][20] The film received six Academy Award nominations including for Best Picture.
Krieps played the magazine publisher in The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018),[18] and Minna Holberg in the drama film The Last Vermeer (2019). She portrayed the morally compromised Alsatian interpreter in the 2020 television series Das Boot, and subsequently in the second series.[21] In 2021, Krieps starred in M. Night Shyamalan's horror film Old,[22] and in the drama film Bergman Island (2021).[23]
That same year, she starred in the HBO film The Survivor and the Netflix film Beckett. She starred in Mathieu Amalric's drama film Hold Me Tight (2021) which premiered at the 74th Cannes Film Festival. Susannah Gruder of IndieWire praised her performance writing, "Krieps, who delivers a disarmingly vulnerable, yet understated performance that keeps the film grounded. Her wispy elegance is tempered by a clumsy charm as she lovingly strokes her daughter’s hair, or floats through the world in her newly-solo life".[24]
In 2023, she starred in the western drama The Dead Don't Hurt directed by Viggo Mortensen. The film premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. Krieps is described as being the true central figure of the revisionist Western. Frank Schek of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Krieps delivers yet another astonishing turn in a career that already seems destined for greatness. Her Vivienne — warm yet steely, courageous yet vulnerable, fierce yet loving — is a complex, fascinating character who’s compelling every moment she’s onscreen."[26]
In April 2021, Krieps was part of the controversial campaign #allesdichtmachen ("close everything down"), which featured 50 German-speaking actors making fun of Germany's protective measures against COVID-19.[34] In her video, Krieps says, among other things, that acting helped her to deal with her fear of people.[34] The campaign, released when Germany had more than 80,000 deaths related to COVID-19, was highly criticised as being "tasteless" and "cringe-worthy",[35] but it also received support from members of the far-right and COVID-deniers.[36][35]
When asked about the #MeToo movement in 2018, Krieps said: "Maybe it's very European, but I always see both sides. I feel very sorry for the people who have been harassed, but I also feel very sorry for the people who have lived a life where they have been harassing people."[37] When Krieps was questioned on Instagram about the alleged abuser in the cast of her film Corsage who was kept in the film after director Marie Kreutzer was informed about him,[38] she said: "So, a feminist film made by two women should be discarded because of the misconduct of a male colleague?... Who exactly is being harmed by this?"[39] Krieps was also an executive producer on Corsage.[40] The case became public in Austria in June 2022, when Austrian director Katharina Mückstein shared an Instagram story that generated a lot of media attention and sparked a new wave of the #MeToo Movement in Austria.[38]
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