Kelly Reilly
| Kelly Reilly | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 July 1977 London, England |
| Other names | Keilly Reilly |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1995–present |
Kelly Reilly (born 18 July 1977)[citation needed] is an English actress.
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[edit] Early life
Reilly was born and brought up in Chessington; her father was in the police and her mother was a part-time secretary at Kingston Hospital.[1] She attended Tolworth Girls' School, where she became interested in drama.[2]
[edit] Career
Inspired to seek acting work beyond school, she wrote to the producers of the television drama Prime Suspect and six months later was granted and won the audition, for a role in an episode Prime Suspect 4: Inner Circle, which aired on ITV on May 7, 1995. Six years later, she once again appeared alongside Helen Mirren in the film Last Orders.[3]
Her first professional role was followed by a series of parts on the English stage. She worked with Terry Johnson in four productions, Elton John’s Glasses (1997), The London Cuckolds (1998), The Graduate (2000) and Piano/Forte (2006).[4] Johnson wrote Piano/Forte for her and said "Kelly is possibly the most natural, dyed-in-the-wool, deep-in-the-bone actress I've ever worked with."[2] Reilly has stated that she learned the most as an actor from Karel Reisz, who directed her in The Yalta Game in Dublin in 2001. She said, "He was my masterclass. There is no way I would have been able to do Miss Julie if I hadn't done that play."[1]
By 2000, Reilly felt she was being typecast in comedy roles and she actively sought out a role as the young Amy in Last Orders, directed by Fred Schepisi.[3] This was followed by a role in the Royal Court's 2001 re-run of Sarah Kane's Blasted. The Times called her "theatrical Viagra" for her willingness to appear nude in such roles. She told a reviewer that after her mother saw her in Blasted she asked, "Why can't you just do something where you wear a nice dress and be nice?"[5] In 2002, she starred alongside Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris as Wendy, an English Erasmus student, in the French comedy L'Auberge espagnole ("The Spanish Apartment"). She resumed her role in the 2005 sequel, Les Poupées Russes ("The Russian Dolls"). Also in 2005, she had a series of roles in such films as Mrs. Henderson Presents and Pride & Prejudice.
Her first lead role came in 2008 in the horror film Eden Lake and, in 2009, she had a high-profile role on prime time British television in the three-part police drama Above Suspicion. That year she was also in three major films, Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr., Triage starring Colin Farrell, and Me and Orson Welles, starring Claire Danes.
[edit] Awards and nominations
Reilly's performance in After Miss Julie at the Donmar Warehouse made her a star of the London stage and earned her a nomination for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2003. Aged 26, she was the youngest person ever nominated for that award.[2] And, in 2005, she won Best Newcomer Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role as Wendy in The Russian Dolls (Les Poupées Russes).[2]
[edit] Personal life
In 2008, she announced that she had been engaged to Israeli actor Jonah Lotan.[6]
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Format | Title | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | TV series | Above Suspicion - Silent Scream | DI Anna Travis |
| 2011 | Feature film | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | Mary Watson |
| 2011 | TV mini-series | Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent | DI Anna Travis |
| 2010 | TV mini-series | Above Suspicion: The Red Dahlia | DC Anna Travis |
| 2010 | Feature film | Meant to Be | Amanda |
| 2009 | Feature film | Sherlock Holmes | Mary Morstan |
| 2009 | Feature film | Triage | Diane |
| 2009 | TV mini-series | Above Suspicion | DC Anna Travis |
| 2009 | Feature film | Me and Orson Welles | Muriel Brassler |
| 2008 | Feature film | Eden Lake | Jenny |
| 2008 | TV mini-series | He Kills Coppers | Jeannie |
| 2007 | Stage | Othello | Desdemona |
| 2007 | TV film | Joe's Palace | Charlotte |
| 2007 | Feature film | Puffball | Liffey |
| 2006 | Stage | Piano/ Forte | Louise |
| 2006 | TV film | A for Andromeda | Christine/ Andromeda |
| 2005 | Feature film | Mrs Henderson Presents | Maureen |
| 2005 | Feature film | Pride & Prejudice | Miss Bingley |
| 2005 | Feature film | The Russian Dolls | Wendy |
| 2005 | Stage | Look Back in Anger | Alison |
| 2004 | Feature film | The Libertine | Jane |
| 2004 | Stage | After Miss Julie | Miss Julie |
| 2003 | TV film | Sad Cypress | Mary Gerrard |
| 2003 | Feature film | Dead Bodies | Viv |
| 2003 | Stage | Sexual Perversity in Chicago | Deborah |
| 2002 | Stage | A Prayer For Owen Meany: On Faith | Tabitha |
| 2002 | Feature film | L'Auberge espagnole | Wendy |
| 2001 | Stage | Blasted | Cate |
| 2001 | Feature film | Last Orders | Young Amy |
| 2000 | Feature film | Peaches | Cherry |
| 2000 | Feature film | Maybe Baby | Nimnh |
| 2000 | Stage | The Graduate | Elaine |
| 2000 | Radio | Tomorrow Week | Kath |
| 1999 | Stage | Three Sisters | Irina |
| 1998 | Stage | The London Cuckolds | Peggy |
| 1997 | Stage | Elton John's Glasses | Amy |
| 1997 | TV | Pie In The Sky | Tina |
| 1996 | TV | Ruth Rendell Mysteries "Simisola" | Kimberly |
[edit] References
- ^ a b Kate Kellaway (3 September 2006). "It's good days and bad days, no rules". The Guardian. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1863526,00.html. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
- ^ a b c d Chloe Fox (, October 20, 2007). "Kelly Reilly: from the heart", Telegraph (London). Retrieved 2009-10-03.
- ^ a b Stephen Applebaum (2002). Interview with Kelly Reilly Netribution. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
- ^ Review of Piano/Forte 21 September 2006, The Guardian
- ^ Kate Whiting (January 5, 2009). Kelly Reilly stars in Above Suspicion”, Chester Chronicle. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
- ^ Daphne Lockyer (December 27, 2008). “Kelly Reilly, the new Jane Tennison?”, Times online. Retrieved 2009-10-03
