Her early films include Hanna (2011), Two Lives (2012) and A Most Wanted Man (2014), and she next starred in The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018), The Last Vermeer (2019), Old (2021), and The Survivor (2021).

Vicky Krieps was born on 4 October 1983[1] in Hesperange, Luxembourg[2][3] the daughter of a Luxembourgish father, who managed a film distribution company, and German mother.

[citation needed] Krieps had numerous roles in Luxembourgish films and television series, before starring in foreign productions, such as Hanna (2011), Rommel (2012), Before the Winter Chill (2013) and Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight [de], a biopic about the German aviation pioneer Elly Beinhorn.

[17][18] Receiving critical acclaim for her role, Dan Jolin of Empire stated that Krieps "can hold her own opposite a titan like Day-Lewis", while David Edelstein of Vulture wrote that she is "bewitchingly lucent, her face just masklike enough to make our sudden awareness of all her dark thoughts a shock.

Krieps played the magazine publisher in The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018),[18] and Minna Holberg in the drama film The Last Vermeer (2019).

Her wispy elegance is tempered by a clumsy charm as she lovingly strokes her daughter’s hair, or floats through the world in her newly-solo life".

Jessica Kiang of Variety praised the casting describing it as "the best showcase for [Krieps]' defiantly peculiar charisma since Phantom Thread.

Frank Schek of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Krieps delivers yet another astonishing turn in a career that already seems destined for greatness.

Her Vivienne — warm yet steely, courageous yet vulnerable, fierce yet loving — is a complex, fascinating character who’s compelling every moment she’s onscreen.

[27][5][33] In April 2021, Krieps was part of the controversial campaign #allesdichtmachen ("close everything down"), which featured 50 German-speaking actors making fun of Germany's protective measures against COVID-19.