Jessica Kelly Siobhan Ryan Bio

Jessica Kelly Siobhan Reilly is an English actress from England. Her performance in After Miss Julie, at the Donmar Warehouse (2003 between 2003 and 2004) was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award. Her credits on 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 hospital receptionist mother. She was educated at Tolworth Girls' High School located in Kingston where she took GCSE drama. Her parents are Irish. Reilly wrote to the producers of the TV drama Prime Suspect to ask for work, and six months later, she auditioned for the role in an episode of Prime Suspect 4: Inner Circle, which was broadcast on ITV on May 7th, 1995. She appeared in the episode "Bramwell" an era-specific drama on television, which starred as Kathleen Le Saux, a unhappy young wife. Six years later she was again with Helen Mirren in Last Orders. She was a part of four stage productions together with Terry Johnson: Elton John's Glasses (1997), The London Cuckolds (1998), The Graduate (2000), and Piano/Forte (2006). Johnson composed 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 affirms that Karel Resz, who directed her in The Yalta Game (Dublin) in 2001 she learned the most about acting. She added "He was my instructor. If I didn't have seen that production, it would have been impossible for me to become Miss Julie.