Rebecca Ferguson is a Swedish actress who plays Riza on Men in Black: International.
Biography[]
Ferguson was born in Stockholm and grew up in Vasastan district in central Stockholm. Her mother, Rosemary Ferguson, is English, and moved from Britain to Sweden at the age of 25.[3] Rebecca's father is Swedish. Her maternal grandmother is from Northern Ireland, and her maternal grandfather is Scottish.[5] Rebecca took her mother's surname as her stage name.
She attended an English-speaking school in Sweden and was raised bilingual, speaking Swedish and English.[7]
From the age of 13, she worked as a model and appeared in magazines and on television commercials for cosmetic, apparel, and jewelry advertisements.
Ferguson has danced from a very early age; she did ballet, tap-dancing, jazz, street funk and tango. She taught Argentine tango at a dance company in Lund, Sweden for a few years, while she continued her work on several short art film projects.[10]
Ferguson attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm and graduated in 1999.