Jessica Kelly Siobhan Reilly Bio
Jessica Kelly Siobhan Reilly is an English actor from the UK. She received a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in After Miss Julie at the Donmar Warehouse (2003--2004). Her credits on film and television include Eden Lake (2008), Sherlock Holmes (2009, and Yellowstone). Reilly was the daughter of Jack Kelly, a former police officer, and a hospital receptionist mother. 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 after that, she auditioned for play a role in Prime Suspect 4's Inner Circle. It was broadcast on ITV 7 May 1995. In the year 1996, she starred in an episode for Carlton UK Television period drama series "Bramwell" portraying an unhappy, young wife, Kathleen Le Saux. Six years later, she again with Helen Mirren in Last Orders. She collaborated with Terry Johnson on 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 fan of Kelly. Reilly has claimed that she gained the most as an actor from Karel Reisz, who was her director in The Yalta Game in Dublin in 2001. She said "He was my teacher. It's impossible to imagine how I could have had the chance to play Miss Julie if I hadn't been able to perform that show."


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