Willa Fitzgerald was born on January 17, 1991,[1] in Nashville, Tennessee,[2] the only child of musician parents[3] who were in a band together for two decades prior to her birth.

[5] Between 2013 and 2014, Fitzgerald played the role of Lola Laffer in the Amazon Studios political web television series Alpha House.

[6] On April 23, 2014, it was reported that Fitzgerald obtained a recurring role in USA Network's drama series Royal Pains as Emma Miller.

[14][15] Fitzgerald's credits in theater include works such as Couple in the Kitchen, The Private Sector, Cow Play and The Cat and the Canary.

[16][17][18] In August 2016, she joined the cast of the film Misfortune,[19] directed by Lucky McKee and released in October 2017 under the title Blood Money.

[28] In December 2017, she was cast to play Kitsey Barbour in The Goldfinch based on Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name,[29] which was released on September 13, 2019.