Kelly Reilly

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Kelly Reilly (2013)

Jessica Kelly Siobhán Reilly (born July 18, 1977 in Epsom , Surrey , England) is a British film and theater actress .

biography

Training and first television roles

Kelly Reilly - daughter of a police officer and a secretary - grew up not far from her home town of Epsom in Chessington , Greater London, together with her brother Neil, who is now a professional golfer. Reilly came into contact with the theater while attending secondary school , where she read plays and attended performances, encouraged by her acting teacher. At sixteen, Reilly was discovered by an agent on an amateur actor project called The Casting Couch . This arranged for her to audition for the popular television series Hot Suspicion , in which Helen Mirren played the detective inspector Jane Tennison .

In fact, in the fourth part, Seilschaften, produced in 1995, Reilly got the lead role of a drug addict middle-class schoolgirl who is suspected of killing a businessman. This first success was crucial for Reilly to pursue a career as an actress. The charismatic Englishwoman has appeared in other television roles, including supporting roles in Richard Laxton's historical drama Poldark (1996) and Jim O'Brien's television remake of the Hitchcock film Rebecca (1940) with Charles Dance and Emilia Fox in the lead roles. In the meantime, she finished her school education with the A-Level , which is comparable to the German Abitur, and at the age of seventeen she took her own apartment in the London district of Clapham . Reilly attended some pre-auditions at drama schools, but decided against classical acting training.

In 1997 Reilly made her theatrical debut at London's Watford Palace Theater in Terry Johnson's play Elton John's Glasses . Johnson had remembered Reilly's acting performance in Hot Suspicion , and he subsequently used it in The London Cuckold at the Royal National Theater and in the West End theatrical version of The Graduation . In the latter piece, she acted alongside Kathleen Turner as their sensitive daughter Elaine Robinson . This was followed in 2001 by an engagement at the Royal Court Theater for a revival of Sarah Kane's controversial drama Bombed, inspired by the Balkan War . The play deals with the themes of cannibalism and rape in wartime. Two years later, Reilly interpreted Deb, who is dying of lovesickness, in David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago at the London Comedy Theater, directed by Lindsay Posner . Here she stood u. a. next to Minnie Driver and Matthew Perry on stage. In between she played supporting roles in cinema productions a. a. in Fred Schepisi's award-winning drama Last Round and Cédric Klapisch's L'auberge espagnole . In the successful French comedy about a multicultural student flat share in Barcelona , Reilly played the English Erasmus student Wendy at the side of Romain Duris , Audrey Tautou and Barnaby Metschurat .

Success in theater and film

The big breakthrough in the London theater scene followed at the end of 2003 when Kelly Reilly interpreted the title role in Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie at London's Donmar Warehouse . Marber moved the plot of August Strindberg's drama Miss Julie (1888) to an English country house at the time of the landslide victory of the Labor Party in 1945. Reilly acted alongside Helen Baxendale and Richard Coyle as a young aristocratic heroine who entered into a dangerous liaison with the Admits her father's valet. The critics praised her play and a year later, Reilly received a nomination for the prestigious British theater award Laurence Olivier for best actress and a nomination at the Evening Standard Theater Awards as the youngest actress to date.

Two years later, she was also successful in the film business. After a supporting role in Laurence Dunmore's historical drama The Libertine alongside Johnny Depp and Samantha Morton , she repeated her role as Wendy in Cédric Klapisch's L'auberge espagnole in 2005 , in which she was portrayed again with the aimless protagonist Xavier ( by Romain Duris) finds happiness both professionally and personally. The sequel was able to build on the success of L'auberge espagnole and maintain its place at the top of the French box office against Hollywood productions such as Batman Begins and War of the Worlds . Reilly was awarded the Chopard Trophée for her performance at the Cannes Film Festival , which recognizes the performance of young international actors.

In 2006 she received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the most important French film award, the César . In Stephen Frears ' 1940s comedy Lady Henderson starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins in the lead roles, Reilly portrayed one of the legendary starlets of London's Windmill Theater. For this she received the London Film Critics' Award for British New Discovery of the Year and a nomination at the British Independent Film Awards. This was followed by Joe Wright's multiple Oscar- nominated drama Pride and Prejudice , in which she played the scheming Caroline Bingley . In September 2006 Kelly Reilly appeared in the play Piano / Forte at the Royal Court Theater in London.

In 2008 Reilly starred in the horror thriller Eden Lake , a directorial debut from director and screenwriter James Watkins . In the same year she was in the English drama Me and Orson Welles ( Me and Orson Welles to see). In Richard Linklater's film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Robert Kaplow , she played alongside Claire Danes , Ben Chaplin and Zac Efron . Reilly also starred with Colin Farrell and Christopher Lee in the film adaptation of Scott Anderson's novel Triage . The story is based on the novel of the same name by photojournalist Scott Anderson and revolves around war photographer Mark Walsh, who returns from Kurdistan after a dangerous mission - and has to deal with the death of his colleague and best friend at home. At the end of April 2012, Reilly got the lead role in the film adaptation of Jane Mendelsohn's novel Innocence .

At the side of Robert Downey Jr. , Jude Law and Rachel McAdams she was in Guy Ritchie's action version of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective classic Sherlock Holmes and in 2011 in its successor Sherlock Holmes: Spiel im Schatten as Mary Morstan , the future wife of Dr. Watsons , see. In 2012 she took on the role of heroin addict Nicole in the drama Flight .

2015 debuted Reilly, along with Clive Owen , on Broadway in Harold Pinter's play Old Times .

Kelly Reilly has been married to Kyle Baugher since 2012. The couple live in New York City.

Filmography (selection)

Stage plays

  • 1997: Elton John's Glasses
  • 1998: The London Cuckolds
  • 1999: Three Sisters (Three Sisters)
  • 2000: The Graduate (The Graduate)
  • 2001: Blasted (Blasted)
  • 2001: The Yalta Game
  • 2002: A Prayer For Owen Meany
  • 2003: Sexual Perversity In Chicago
  • 2003/04: After Miss Julie
  • 2005: Look Back In Anger
  • 2007: Piano / Forte
  • 2009/10/11: Above Suspicion

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Deignan: Irish Eye on Hollywood , Irish America , December / January 2013
  2. ↑ a b Kelly Reilly foregoes "INNOCENCE" in boarding school vampire movie ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fangoria.com
  3. ^ Tamsen Fadal and Kim Pestalozzi: “Backstage on Broadway: Clive Owen, Kelly Reilly make debut in Old Times alongside Eve Best” , PIX11, October 8, 2015
  4. ↑ Kelly Reilly spooked by premieres. (No longer available online.) In: People . April 9, 2014, archived from the original on February 27, 2015 ; accessed on February 27, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / peoplemagazine.co.za
  5. ↑ Susan Stewart: Kelly Reilly finds comedy in even the toughest of material. In: New York Post . July 26, 2014, accessed February 27, 2015 .

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SURNAME Reilly, Kelly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reilly, Jessica Kelly Siobhán (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Epsom , Surrey , England, UK