Lola Kirke

Birthday: 27 September 1990, Westminster, London, England, UK

Birth Name: Lola Clementine C. Kirke

Height: 160 cm

Kirke was raised in New York City from the age of 5. She is the daughter of Simon Kirke, the former drummer of the rock bands Bad Company and Free. Her mother is Lorraine (née Dellal) Kirke, the owner of Geminola, a vintage boutique in New York City that supplied a number of outfits for the television series, Sex and the City (1998).Her father is of English and Scottish descent. Her maternal grandfather, Jack Dellal, was a British businessman of Iraqi Jewish descent, and Kirke's maternal grandmother was Israeli. Kirke has two sisters, Jemima Kirke and Domino Kirke. She is a cousin of curator Alexander Dellal and model Alice Dellal.Kirke graduated from Bard College in 2012. Show less «

As somebody who has wanted to be an actor who is very young, I can relate to somebody who has been p...Show more »

As somebody who has wanted to be an actor who is very young, I can relate to somebody who has been practicing oboe five days a week since they were very young. The physicality of anything a character does is a tremendous gift. Show less «

I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it...Show more »

I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it. Show less «

I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

I'm the only one in my family with an American accent.

I think the merging of high and low culture is so fascinating.

I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just ...Show more »

I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument. Show less «

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that...Show more »

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that. Show less «

The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the m...Show more »

The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis. Show less «

I spend a lot of time doing watercolors and playing music in my apartment.

The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teac...Show more »

The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was much younger than I am. Show less «

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