Jessica Kelly SiobhanReilly Bio

Jessica Kelly Siobhan Reilly is an English actress. She received an 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 raised in Chessington she was the daughter of a hospital receptionist mother as well as Jack Kelly, a retired police officer. She went to Tolworth Girls' High School in Kingston and studied drama for GCSE. Her parents are Irish. Reilly wrote to Prime Suspect's producers asking for work. Six months after, she was able to audition for a part on Prime Suspect 4: Inner Circle. The episode was broadcast on ITV 7 May, 1995. In the year 1996, she was featured in an episode for Carlton UK Television period drama series "Bramwell" portraying an unrequited, young wife, Kathleen Le Saux. A few years later, she starred with Helen Mirren on Last Orders. She worked with 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 and stated she thought Kelly was "possibly the most natural, dyed-in-thewool deep-inthe-bone actor I have ever worked with". Reilly claims that she gained the most about acting from Karel Reisz, who directed her in The Yalta Game in Dublin in 2001. She stated, "He was my masterclass." Without that performance there's no way I would have been able to have performed as Miss Julie.