Georgina Rylance

Georgina Elizabeth Rylance (born April 20, 1978), English actress, best known for Dinotopia.

Early life

Rylance is the daughter of Judge John Rylance QC, a circuit judge.

Born in 1978, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, London, Downe House School, Berkshire, and St Edward's School, Oxford.

At the age of eighteen, Rylance was recruited by a model scout who met her in a pub on the Portobello Road, London, during the Notting Hill Carnival. This led to a short modelling career which included a Coca-Cola commercial. She hoped this would be a way into acting. However, she accepted a place at Oxford Brookes University and graduated three years later in politics and publishing. She then trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. While she was a drama student, she was a regular in the audience at the Gate Theatre.

In 2008, she met Canadian doctor Greg Bailey in Los Angeles and in 2009 was living with him in an apartment in Knightsbridge, London. The same year, she spent a month in Antarctica.

Filmography

Georgina Rylance's first screen role was in Howard Davies's television movie Armadillo (2001), in which her character was Amabel.

She played Rachel Kelly in 2005's The Government Inspector, Helena in Spartacus (a TV movie for USA Network, 2004) and Marion Waldo in ABC's thirteen-part TV series of Dinotopia.

Other television appearances include Manchild, Keen Eddie, As If, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and New Tricks.

In the Poirot adventure The Mystery of the Blue Train (2006), Rylance played the female lead opposite David Suchet.

In the movie Puritan (2006), an official selection at the Berlin 2005 Fantasy FilmFest and the London 2006 Fantasy Filmfest, she starred alongside Nick Moran.

She had a small part in the first and second episodes of the NBC show Crusoe (2008).

External links

• Georgina Rylance interview at moviehole.net