Lola Kirke

Lola Clementine Kirke (born 27 September 1990) is a British-American actress and singer-songwriter. She starred in the 2015 film Mistress America and the Amazon Studios television series Mozart in the Jungle. She appeared in Gone Girl (2014), Gemini (2017), and Lost Girls (2020) among other films. Recent work includes HBO's Winning Time (2022) and upcoming Starz limited series Three Women. Early life and family Kirke was born in Westminster, London, and raised in New York City from the age of five. Her father, Simon Kirke, was drummer for the rock bands Bad Company and Free. Her mother is Lorraine (née Dellal) Kirke, the owner of Geminola, a vintage boutique in New York City that supplied a number of outfits for the television series Sex and the City. ("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 Bard College. Her father is of English and Scottish descent (the Kirkes being a junior branch of a family of Nottinghamshire landed gentry, and descending also from the Gibson-Craig baronets) and her mother is Jewish. Kirke's maternal grandfather, Jack Dellal, was a British businessman of Iraqi-Jewish descent, and her maternal grandmother Zehava Helmer was a former Israeli stewardess; Kirke has described herself as Jewish. Kirke has two older sisters, singer Domino Kirke and actress Jemima Kirke, 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 Mozart in the Jungle. 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 Mistress America alongside Greta Gerwig. In 2017, Kirke starred opposite Zoe Kravitz in the Neon film Gemini, 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 Jemima Kirke. It premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. 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 Netflix. In 2021, Kirke starred in the BJ Novak anthology series The Premise for FX and Hulu.