Jessica Kelly SiobhanReilly Bio

Jessica Kelly Siobhan Reilly is an English actress. She was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in After Miss Julie at the Donmar Warehouse (2003--2004). Her film and TV credits include Eden Lake (2008), Sherlock Holmes (2009), and Yellowstone. Reilly was the daughter of Jack Kelly, a former police officer, and a hospital receptionist's mother. She attended Tolworth Girls School in Kingston where she studied GCSE drama. Her grandparents are Irish. Reilly wrote to the producers of Prime Suspect asking to be considered for a role. Six months later, she auditioned for a role in Prime Suspect 4: Inner Circle. The episode was broadcast on ITV 7 May, 1995. She was a part of the episode "Bramwell" an era-specific drama television series, starring as Kathleen Le Saux, a disturbed young wife. Six years later, she again with Helen Mirren in Last Orders. She was part of four shows with Terry Johnson: Elton John's Glasses (1997), The London Cuckolds (1998), The Graduate (2000), and Piano/Forte (2006). Johnson wrote Piano/Forte for her and said, "Kelly is possibly the most natural, dyed deep-in the-bone actress I've collaborated with." Reilly has claimed that she gained the most as an actor from Karel Reisz who directed her in The Yalta Game in Dublin in 2001. She claimed that she learned from Reilly as a teacher. There is no way I would have been able to be able to portray Miss Julie if I hadn't been able to perform that show."