The young actress Jemima kirke, daughter of the drummer of the band Bad Company, Simon Kirke and the fashion and interior designer Lorraine Kirke, was born in the city of London where she lived until she was 10 years old.
In 1995 the family moved to the United States, settling in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. There she studied at Little Red School House and Saint Ann’s High School, where she met and befriended the future actress and director Lena Dunham, with whom she would work years later; and the actress Paz de la Huerta. After finishing high school, he studied Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Jemima She began her acting career by participating in numerous West Village plays. In 2005 she made her film debut lending her voice to the character of a singer in the short film “Smile for the Camera“.
Five years passed until Jemima returned to the cinema with her friend Lena Dunham, who chose her to play the role of Charlotte in her second feature film as a director and writer, “Tiny Furniture“(2010), winner of an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay and other awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the Sarasota Film Festival.
His next project, also by Dunham is the star of Jessa in the comedy series “Girls“, which is scheduled to premiere on April 15, 2012 by the US television network HBO. Created, written and starring Dunham, it is executive produced by Judd Apatow in a story that follows the lives of a group of young people Twenty-somethings in New York City, and her efforts to keep a job and her relationships with parents, partners, and friends.
In addition to her work as an actress Jemima is an outstanding plastic artist who has exhibited her paintings in different New York galleries. She has recently been the mother of a girl.