Jessica Kelly Siobhan Reynold Bio

Jessica Kelly Siobhan Reilly, an English actor from the UK. She was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in After Miss Julie at the Donmar Warehouse (2003--2004). Her TV and film credits include Eden Lake (2008) and Sherlock Holmes (2009). Reilly was born and was raised in Chessington she was her mother was a receptionist from a hospital mother and Jack Kelly, a retired police officer. She attended Tolworth Girls' School in Kingston where she studied GCSE drama. Her grandparents are Irish. Reilly sent an email to producers of the television show Prime Suspect to ask for work, and six months later she auditioned a role in an episode of Prime Suspect 4: Inner Circle which was aired on ITV on 7 May 1995. She starred in an episode of "Bramwell", a period drama series on TV, with her in the role of Kathleen Le Saux, a troubled young wife. Six years later, she brought back together with Helen Mirren in Last Orders. She co-starred with Terry Johnson in four productions: Elton John's Glasses (1997), The London Cuckolds (1998), The Graduate (2000) and Piano/Forte (2006). Johnson wrote Piano/Forte and also stated that she was a huge fan of Kelly. Reilly has said that she gained the most as an actor from Karel Reisz who directed her in The Yalta Game in Dublin in 2001. She stated that she learned from Reilly as a"masterclass. There's no way that I could have had the chance to do Miss Julie if I hadn't performed that role."