Kirby Howell-Baptiste

Kirby Howell-Baptiste (born 23 October 1987),^[1] credited mononymously as Kirby since 2023,^[2] is an English actress. She has appeared as a series regular on Downward Dog (2017), Killing Eve (2018), Why Women Kill (2019), and as Death of the Endless in The Sandman (2022–2025) and Dead Boy Detectives (2024). Her television appearances also include recurring roles on Love (2016–2018), Barry (2018–2023), The Good Place (2018–2020), and the fourth season of Veronica Mars (2019), and a starring role in the second and third seasons of the animated series Infinity Train (2020) as Grace Monroe.

Kirby Howell-Baptiste
Born	(1987-10-23) 23 October 1987 (age 37) London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2008–present

Early life and education

Kirby is from London. Her mother owned clothing stalls in Camden.^[3] Kirby began acting at the Anna Scher Theatre.^[4]

Career

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.^[5][6] Kirby followed in 2018 with her role as Elena in the first season of the BBC series Killing Eve.^[7] She had a recurring role as actress Sasha Baxter in the HBO comedy-drama series Barry,^[8] and has appeared as neuroscientist Simone Garnett in the third and fourth seasons of the NBC series The Good Place.^[9] On streaming television platforms, Kirby has had recurring roles on the Netflix series Love and the fourth season of Veronica Mars for Hulu,^[10] and appeared in the main cast of the CBS All Access series Why Women Kill for its first season.^[11] 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.^[2] However, she continues to be credited as Kirby Howell-Baptiste in Season 2 of The Sandman.^[12]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Prepping Keisha	Keisha James	Short
2012	How to Succeed with Women	Unknown
	Invasion of the Les-Body Snatchers	Emma
2013	Lucky Day	Carly	Short; also director, producer & writer
	We Four Queens	Samantha	Short
2014	Thanks for the Ride	Kirby	Video short
	Minor Alterations	Ruby	Short; also producer & writer
2015	Textbook Adulthood	Lady Jerk
2016	Nell Live: Still Tayin' Around	Moviegoer	Short
	The Hip Hooray	Kirby
	Solar	Mystic voice (voice)
2017	A Dog's Purpose	Maya
	A Dog's Purpose: Lights, Camera, Woof	Herself	Video short
	Lane Woods Finds Love	Unknown
2018	It's a Party	Hannah
	Find Me	Jordan
2021	Happily	Maude	[13]
	Cruella	Anita "Tattletale" Darling
	Queenpins	JoJo Johnson	[14]
	Silent Night	Alex	[15]
2022	Catwoman: Hunted	Barbara Minerva / Cheetah (voice)	Direct-to-video[16][17]
	Mr. Harrigan's Phone	Ms. Hart	[18]
2023	The Magician's Elephant	The Countess (voice)	[17]
2024	We Strangers	Ray Martin	[19]
TBA	Transcending		Post-production[20]

Key

†	Denotes works that have not yet been released

Television

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[17]
	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
2017	@midnight	Herself	Episode #4.114
	Downward Dog	Jenn	Main role
	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"[17]
	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
2018–2022	Killing Eve	Elena Felton	Main role (season 1), guest role (season 4)
2018–2023	Barry	Sasha Baxter	Recurring
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)[17]
	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)[17]
	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
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[17]
	Culprits	Officer	Recurring (billed as "Kirby")[21]
2024	Sugar	Ruby	8 episodes (billed as "Kirby")[22]
	Dead Boy Detectives	Death of the Endless	Episode: "The Case of Crystal Palace" (billed as "Kirby")[23]