Elizabeth Debicki is a striking and powerful actor of great range whose performances tend to stand out even in ensembles including the crème de la crème of acting talent, from her Princess Diana in
The Crown to Ayesha in the
Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.
Debicki debuted in features with a small role in the Stephen Elliott-directed comedy,
A Few Best Men (2011), and was then picked by
Baz Luhrmann off her audition tape to play Daisy’s best friend, Jordan, in Luhrmann’s
The Great Gatsby (2013), starring
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire,
Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, and Jason Clarke, grossing a fine $354 million and winning two Oscars.
Debicki took on the choice role of Lady Macbeth in director Justin Kurzel’s interesting film version of Shakespeare’s
Macbeth (2015), starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Paddy Considine, Sean Harris, Jack Reynor, and David Thewlis, and which premiered in competition in the official selection of the Cannes film festival before a StudioCanal release.
Debicki displayed her range with a colorful performance (with her face dominating the movie’s poster) in Guy Ritchie’s poorly received movie version of the classic TV spy series for Warner Bros.,
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), with
Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Jared Harris, and Hugh Grant.
Elizabeth Debicki joined the large ensemble under
Baltasar Kormakur’s direction in Universal Pictures’ IMAX survival adventure,
Everest (2015), with Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly,
Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, and
Jake Gyllenhaal, and which proved a hit with a $203 million return on $55 million costs.
Debicki once again confounded typecasting by joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Ayesha in
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), both written and directed by
James Gunn and co-starring
Chris Pratt,
Zoe Saldana,
Dave Bautista,
Karen Gillan,
Vin Diesel, and Bradley Cooper, earning a combined gross of $1.71 billion for Marvel/Disney.
Debicki did her first voice performance under Luc Besson’s direction in the space opera,
Valerian and the City of Thousand Planets (2017), with Dane DeHaan, Cara Delavingne, Clive Owen,
Rihanna,
Ethan Hawke, Herbie Hancock, and Rutger Hauer, and then Debicki co-starred with director-producer-star Simon Baker’s Aussie sports drama based on co-screenwriter Tim Winton’s novel,
Breath (2017), and which premiered at the Toronto film festival.
Debicki co-starred with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Aksel Hennie, Daniel Brühl, Chris O’Dowd, David Oyelowo, and Zhang Ziyi under
Julius Onah’s direction in Netflix’s sci-fi horror movie,
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), followed by Debicki delivering her second voice performance in Columbia Pictures/Sony Releasing’s animated/live-action
Peter Rabbit (2018), directed, co-written, and produced by
Will Gluck, with James Corden, Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, Sam Neill, Daisy Ridley, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and
Margot Robbie; Debicki returned to Gluck’s Beatrix Potter project with the same cast in the sequel,
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2023), returning a combined $505 million globally.
Elizabeth Debicki created a head-turning performance as a vengeful wife in director/co-writer/producer Steve McQueen’s sizzling crime drama,
Widows (2018), co-starring
Viola Davis,
Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Erivo, Coin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry,
Daniel Kaluuya, Jacki Weaver, Carrie Coon, Robert Duvall, and
Liam Neeson, premiering at the Toronto film festival and released to a $76 million return by distributor 20
th Century Fox. Debicki portrayed Virginia Woolf in co-writer/director Chanya Button’s depiction of the love affair between Woolf and author Vita Sackville-West,
Vita & Virginia (2018), with Gemma Arterton and Isabella Rossellini, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and released by IFC Films.
Debicki co-starred with the exceptional cast of
Claes Bang, Mick Jagger, and Donald Sutherland in screenwriter Scott Smith’s and director Giuseppe Capotondi’s screen version of Charles Willeford’s novel,
The Burnt Orange Conspiracy (2019), selected as the closing film of the Venice film festival and released by Sony Pictures Classics. Filmmaker
Christopher Nolan cast Debicki opposite
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Michael Caine, Dimple Kapadia, and
Kenneth Branagh in the sci-fi thriller,
Tenet (2020), the first Hollywood movie to open theatrically during the COVID-19 pandemic, and barely turning a profit for Warner Bros.
Elizabeth Debicki co-starred opposite
Mia Goth in
Ti West’s third movie in his stylish
X slasher film series,
MaXXine (2024), with Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito, and Kevin Bacon, and released by A24. Debicki then co-starred with Bobby Cannavale and Ruth Wilson in the Giuseppe Capotondi-directed drama,
Andorra (date to be announced), followed by Debicki (as client-lover Edith Farnsworth) co-starring with Ralph Fiennes (as seminal architect-lover Mies van der Rohe) in the Irish-Canadian co-production and biopic,
Farnsworth House (date to be announced).
Debicki took on the surreal role of a woman who may or may not be an alien creature in the thriller,
This Blue Is Mine (date to be announced), directed by Brazilian filmmaker Iuli Gerbase and co-starring Dennis Quaid and
Zazie Beetz. 
