Kelly Reilly (born 18 July 1977) is an award-winning English actress.
She was born into a working class family and grew up in Chessington, Greater London. Her father was a police constable and her mother was a part-time secretary at Kingston Hospital.
As youth she attended Tolworth girl’s school and there she became interested in drama. Inspired to seek acting work beyond school, she wrote to the producers of the television drama Prime Suspect an...
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Kelly Reilly (born 18 July 1977) is an award-winning English actress.
She was born into a working class family and grew up in Chessington, Greater London. Her father was a police constable and her mother was a part-time secretary at Kingston Hospital.
As youth she attended Tolworth girl’s school and there she became interested in drama. Inspired to seek acting work beyond school, she wrote to the producers of the television drama Prime Suspect and six months later was granted an audition, which she won, for a role in one episode of Prime Suspect (Prime Suspect 4: Inner Circle), which aired on the BBC May 7, 1995. She was seventeen. Six years later, Reilly would work with the star of Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren in Last Orders. When they met, Mirren told Reilly, “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...
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