Kirby Howell-Baptiste

• Name — Kirby Howell-Baptiste • Born — 23 October 1987 • Birthplace — London, England • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 2008–present

Kirby is from London and of Jamaican descent. Her mother owned clothing stalls in Camden. Kirby began acting at the Anna Scher Theatre.

Kirby's acting career has included many appearances in guest and recurring television series roles, in addition to several short and feature-length films. Her earlier television work includes the IFC sketch comedy series Comedy Bang! Bang! and the Showtime series House of Lies. She was also a series regular in the short-lived ABC series Downward Dog in 2017. Kirby followed in 2018 with her role as Elena in the first season of the BBC series Killing Eve. She had a recurring role as actress Sasha Baxter in the HBO comedy-drama series Barry, and has appeared as neuroscientist Simone Garnett in the third and fourth seasons of the NBC series The Good Place. On streaming television platforms, Kirby has had recurring roles on the Netflix series Love and the fourth season of Veronica Mars for Hulu, and appeared in the main cast of the CBS All Access series Why Women Kill for its first season. She booked the role of Anita Darling in Disney's Cruella in 2021. Originally credited by her full name, Kirby has been credited mononymously since 2023. However, she continues to be credited as Kirby Howell-Baptiste in the second season of The Sandman.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2008 — Holby City — Sick Patient — Episode: "You're So Vain"; uncredited • 2012 — AMC Fearfest — Angelique Kumari — Television special • 2014 — CollegeHumor Originals — Brittany — Episode: "How America Is Like a Bad Boyfriend" • Six Guys One Car — Christy / Keri — 2 episodes • 2014–2015 — Comedy Bang! Bang! — Decaf Dame / Boom Operator — 2 episodes • UCB Comedy Originals — Unknown — 4 episodes • 2015 — House of Lies — Erin — Episode: "We Can Always Just Overwhelm the Vagus Nerve with Another Sensation" • The Brat Cave — Office O'Neill / Kirby — 2 episodes • The King of 7B — Greta Milgrim — Television film • 2016 — The Dating Game — Evie — Episode: "AJ vs. The Truffle Butter Sex Act" • The UCB Show — Unknown — 2 episodes • TripTank — Stylist / Wife (voice) — 2 episodes • Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ — Rezecca — Episode: "Spiritual Gurus" • Lady Time — Kathy — Miniseries • 2016–2017 — The Powerpuff Girls — Chelsea (voice) — 2 episodes • 2016–2018 — Love — Beth — Recurring; 8 episodes • 2017 — @midnight — Herself — Episode #4.114 • Downward Dog — Jenn — Main role; 8 episodes • Do You Want to See a Dead Body? — Flight Attendant — Episode: "A Body and a Plane" (with Alexandra Daddario) • Dirtbags — Kind Neighbor — Episode: "Husband" • 2018 — Alone Together — Cassidy — Episode: "Sleepover" • Pappy — Kiki — Episode: "Dad Dick" • Big City Greens — Judge Uppinsbottom (voice) — Episode: "Tilly's Goat" • Girls Code — Angela — Pilot • Into the Dark — Kayla — Episode: "New Year, New You" • 2018–2019 — Drunk History — Herself — 3 episodes • 2018–2020 — The Good Place — Simone Garnett — Recurring; 12 episodes • 2018–2022 — Killing Eve — Elena Felton — Main role (season 1), guest role (season 4); 8 episodes • 2018–2023 — Barry — Sasha Baxter — Recurring; 16 episodes • 2019 — Veronica Mars — Nicole Malloy — 7 episodes • Why Women Kill — Taylor Harding — Main role (10 episodes) • 2020 — Glitch Techs — Audrey (voice) — Episode: "I'm Mitch Williams" • Infinity Train — Grace Monroe (voice) — 13 episodes; recurring role (Book Two), main role (Book Three) • Big Hero 6: The Series — Cobra (voice) — Episode: "Cobra and Mongoose" • 2021 — Waffles + Mochi — Pickler — Episode: "Pickles" • Wolfboy and the Everything Factory — Flora (voice) — 2 episodes • 2021–2022 — Hacks — Daisy — 2 episodes • Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous — Dr. Mae Turner (voice) — Recurring (seasons 4–5); 16 episodes • Tig n' Seek — Octavia Spritz / various (voice) — 6 episodes • 2022 — RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars — Herself (guest judge) — Episode: "The Realness of Fortune Ball" • 2022–2025 — The Sandman — Death of the Endless — Recurring; 8 episodes • 2023 — Is It Cake? — Herself (guest judge) — Episode: "Cake University" • Digman! — Nigella (voice) — Episode: "Shakespeare's Lost Sonnet" • Scott Pilgrim Takes Off — Lucas's Agent / Actress in a Movie Within the Show (voice) — 3 episodes • Culprits — Officer — Recurring (billed as "Kirby") • 2024 — Sugar — Ruby — 8 episodes (billed as "Kirby") • Dead Boy Detectives — Death of the Endless — Episode: "The Case of Crystal Palace" (billed as "Kirby") • 2025–present — Splinter Cell: Deathwatch — Zinnia McKenna — Voice • 2025 — Krapopolis — Viscera — Voice, recurring role (billed as "Kirby" in the first two appearances) • 2026 — The Night Manager — Dr. Kim Saunders — 1 episode • Sherwood — D.I. Zara Gill