Jessica Kelly Siobhan Reilly Bio

Jessica Kelly Siobhan Reilly (English actress) is Jessica Kelly Siobhan Reilly. She received an Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in After Miss Julie at the Donmar Warehouse (2003--2004). The credits she has on her film and television include Eden Lake (2008), Sherlock Holmes (2009, and Yellowstone). Reilly was the child of Jack Kelly (retired police officer) and Chessington's receptionist mother in the hospital. She went to Tolworth Girls' School in Kingston where drama was her GCSE course. Her parents are Irish. Reilly wrote to Prime Suspect producers to request to be considered for work. Six months later, she auditioned to a part in Prime Suspect 4's Inner Circle. The show premiered on ITV 7 May 1995. She was a part of an episode of "Bramwell" an era-specific drama on television, which starred in the role of Kathleen Le Saux, a troubled young wife. Six years later, she was a guest alongside Helen Mirren on Last Orders. She was a part of Terry Johnson in four productions including Elton John's Glasses (1997), The London Cuckolds (1998), The Graduate (2000) and Piano/Forte (2006). Johnson wrote Piano/Forte for her and wrote, "Kelly is possibly the most natural, dyed in the wool deep-in-the bone actress I've worked with." Reilly states that Karel Resz, who directed her in The Yalta Game (Dublin) in 2001 was the one who taught her the most about acting. She said "He was my mentor. Without that show I don't know how I would have been able to have performed as Miss Julie.