"I'm going to be a villain, she says about her role on the most-popular police drama in the country, a series so legendary that writer Carmen Maria Machado wrote a fabulous story in its honor. At 40 years old, if there's one thing that suits this multifaceted Londoner raised in New York, it's playing the villain. She radiates an aura matched by few."
"The daughter of Simon Kirke, drummer of the super-group Bad Company, and Lorraine Dellal, interior designer and collector of vintage fashion (I love shopping, I have good taste, for a long time, the word vintage' really bothered me, Kirke says. I'm like, it's all clothing, right?), she is also the sister of actress-singer Lola Kirke and Domino Kirke, a vocalist and doula married to the actor Penn Badgley."
"And she has perfected it to the extent that even hearing her husky voice on the other end of the phone is impressive. It's not every day you get to talk to Jessa Johansson, the character who looks like Brigitte Bardot with an ass like Rihanna, as she was described in a line from Girls, the series that catapulted her to fame after studying painting, thanks to her close friendship with its creator, Lena Dunham."
She stayed up late the night before memorizing her lines for Law & Order: SVU and said, "I'm going to be a villain." At 40, the London-born, New York-raised actress projects a mythic, femme-fatale aura and cultivates a fearless, rule-allergic mystique. She descends from creative parents—Simon Kirke of Bad Company and interior designer Lorraine Dellal—and counts actress-singer Lola Kirke and vocalist-doula Domino Kirke among her siblings. Her husky voice and the Jessa Johansson role from Girls helped catapult her fame after studying painting and forming a close friendship with Lena Dunham. She appears in fashion work, including pieces by Bimba y Lola.
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