Kelly Reilly Movies and Career Information

Kelly Reilly (born 18 July 1977) is an English actress. Born and brought up in Chessington, her father was in the police and her mother was a part-time secretary at Kingston Hospital and she attended Tolworth Girls' School where she became interested in drama - though she never did go to drama school. Inspired to seek acting work beyond school, she wrote to the producers of the television drama Prime Suspect and six months later was granted and won the audition, for a role in an episode of Prime Suspect (Prime Suspect 4: Inner Circle), which aired on ITV on May 7, 1995, she was then seventeen. Six years later, on the cast of Last Orders with Helen Mirren where they met once more, Mirren said,"Oh I knew I'd see you again." Her first professional role was followed by a series of parts on the English stage. She worked with Terry Johnson in four productions, Elton John’s Glasses (1997), The London Cuckolds (1998), The Graduate (2000) and Piano/Forte (2001). Johnson wrote Piano/Forte for her and said "Kelly is possibly the most natural, dyed-in-the-wool, deep-in-the-bone actress I've ever worked with. She is utterly instinctive, and she seems to know absolutely what it is to be human."