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'' and the

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television series ''

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.'' She appeared in '' Gone Girl'' (2014), ''

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'' (2017), and '' Lost Girls'' (2020) among other films. Recent work includes HBO's ''

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'' (2022) and upcoming Showtime limited series '' Three Women''.

Early life and family

Kirke was born in

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, London, and raised in New York City from the age of five. Her father,

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, was drummer for the rock bands

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and Free. Her mother is Lorraine (née Dellal) Kirke, the owner of

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, a vintage boutique in New York City that supplied a number of outfits for the television series ''

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''. ("Geminola" is an amalgam of the names of Lola and her siblings.) Kirke graduated from Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn and in 2012 from

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. Her father is of English and Scottish descent (the Kirkes being a junior branch of a family of

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landed gentry, and descending also from the Gibson-Craig baronets) and her mother is

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. Kirke's maternal grandfather,

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, was a British businessman of Iraqi-Jewish descent, and her maternal grandmother Zehava Helmer was a former

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i stewardess; Kirke has described herself as Jewish. Kirke has two older sisters, singer Domino Kirke and actress

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, and an older half-brother from a previous relationship of her mother's. She is a cousin of curator Alexander Dellal, shoe designer Charlotte Olympia Dellal, and model Alice Dellal.

Career

Kirke's breakout role came as the main character Hayley Rutledge in the Amazon series ''

''. It ran for four seasons, from 2014 to 2018. In 2014, she had a supporting role in the David Fincher film '' Gone Girl'', before going on to star in ''

'' alongside

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. In 2017, Kirke starred opposite Zoe Kravitz in the Neon film ''

'', a neo-noir mystery film set in Hollywood, which made its world premiere at South By Southwest on March 12, 2017. In 2018 she starred in the drama film '' Untogether'', playing sisters with her real-life sister

. It premiered at the 2018

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. She appears in the mystery drama '' Lost Girls'', which made its premiere at The Sundance Film Festival in 2020, and was later made available on

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. In 2021, Kirke starred in the BJ Novak anthology series '' The Premise'' for FX and Hulu. Kirke appears in the HBO series about the Los Angeles Lakers, ''

'', and will be seen in the Showtime drama series '' Three Women'', based on

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’s '' book of the same name''. Kirke is also active in music. In 2016 she released an EP. In 2018, she released three singles, including two with accompanying music videos, "Monster" and "Supposed To". Her debut album, ''Heart Head West'', was released on 10 August 2018 by

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. On 12 March 2019, Kirke released a cover of

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's "Sip the Wine" on Downtown Records, produced by Matthew E. White at his Richmond, Virginia studio, Spacebomb Studios. In October 2021, Kirke was signed to

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. In April 2022, they released her sophomore LP Lady for Sale. The album was hailed as "pure delight" by Pitchfork, "immediately iconic" by AllMusic, and was said to bridge "the gap that once existed between Madonna and the Mandrell Sisters," by Uncut Magazine. "A new era of sparkle-country is upon us," declared No Depression. "Lola Kirke is here to usher it in." "Lyrically, Kirke moves into the top tier of writers," wrote The Line of Best Fit. In August 2022, it was announced that Kirke would be supporting Swedish folk duo

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on their UK Tour in November and December 2022. Kirke is an activist for women's rights. In 2017 she notably wore a "Fuck Paul Ryan" pin on her gown to the Golden Globes to protest the defunding of Planned Parenthood.

Filmography

Film

Television

Discography

* ''EP'' (2016) * ''Heart Head West'' (2018) * ''Lady for Sale'' (2022)

References

External links

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