Sienna Guillory

At 49 years old, Sienna Guillory has this physical status:

Sienna Tiggy Guillory (born 16 March 1975) is an English actress and former model.

She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Jill Valentine in several entries of the Resident Evil action-horror film series.

Other prominent roles include elf princess Arya Dröttningu in the fantasy-adventure film, Eragon, and the title role in the TV miniseries, Helen of Troy.

She has also taken on starring roles in popular TV shows including Fortitude, Stan Lee's Lucky Man and Luther.

Early life

Born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, Guillory is the daughter of American folk guitarist Isaac Guillory and his first wife, English model Tina Thompson, whom he married in 1973. Her father was the son of American and Turkish-Jewish parents and born at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

Her parents moved to Fulham, London, when Guillory was two, then later to Norfolk when she was 11. At the age of ten, she went to stay with cousins in Mexico to learn Spanish.

She has a half-brother named Jace, who has the same mother. Her father adopted him. Her parents divorced in 1990 when Sienna was 14. In 1993, her father married Vickie McMillan, and had two children with her, Ellie and Jacob.

Guillory attended Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk, where she took part in numerous school productions. She started horseback riding at the age of two. At 14, she was given a horse, which she named The Night Porter, or "Porty", after the film The Night Porter; Guillory was a fan of its leading actress Charlotte Rampling.

In December 2000, Guillory's father died of cancer at the age of 53.

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Career

Guillory was sent by a ballerina friend to the London modeling company Select Model Management in 1997 and was shortly accepted. She modeled to promote her acting career. She served in campaigns for Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Burberry, and Paul Smith, as a model, and appeared in numerous fashion publications. Karen Ferrari, then a model, became the face of Hugo Boss fragrance in 1999, replacing Karen Ferrari and extending the campaign for three years. Guillory returned to acting in 2000 after modelling for a few years. She has signed to Independent Models in London.

"I became an actress because I wanted to know how it was to be other people," Guillory explained. "I hate acting, really hate it," I later said. I kind of fell into it sideways... I began acting because I was 16 years old and they wanted to pay me £8,000 but we'd always lived on Family Support. Helen Mirren was inspired by her experience with later film roles, but she continued to be ill.

Guillory made her screen debut in Riders, a television adaptation of Jilly Cooper's book of the same name, for which the casting directors needed a young actress who was able to ride a horse. Mira Sorvino appeared in another small role in The Buccaneers, which starred her.

Guillory waited tables at a restaurant before beginning to act as a model for her acting career. "Supporting my sleeping habits with waitressing was probably the most useful thing I've ever done," she said in a 2000 interview. She studied acting at the New World School of the Arts and the Paris Conservatoire as well as small television and film roles in The Future Lasts a Long Time (1999), Acting (1999), Actor.

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Kiss Kiss (1999) (Bang Bang) (2000), The 3 Kings (2000), Two Days, Nine Lives (2000). Guillory decided to continue acting after being afraid of going to university and being with people my own age and unknown, having spent her time with the tiny little minority of girls in Norfolk, who didn't trust me and didn't know where I was coming from.

She returned to film in the drama Sorted (2000) with a more prominent role. Guillory went on to appear in BBC production Taking a Girl Like You, a television adaptation of Kingsley Amis' novel of the same name. Jenny Bunn, the story's virginal heroine, drew critical notice because of her participation in the period piece. Guillory was delighted to have played a more innocent role, saying: "I've played floozies, psychopaths, assassins, crackheads, and crackheads." It's nice to do something with a lighter touch." The production did not do well in the ratings.

Guillory continued with other British films in 2001, including Oblivious, Late Night Shopping (with husband Enzo Cilenti), The Last Minute, and Superstition. Guillory appeared in The Time Machine in 2002, as well as Guy Pearce and Jeremy Irons. After having worked on low-budget independent films, she was excited to take on a larger scope film, and compared the challenge to "finding a unicorn in your sock drawer." Emma, Pearce's fiancée, was killed early in the film and whose death set off the film's main events, was played by her.

Guillory claims she "read it and couldn't put it down" and begged to read about the role after a friend had received a script for The Principles of Lust in 2003. She was captivated by director Penny Woolcock's unconventional method of shooting, without rehearsing the actors, using raw takes and improvisational performances. Juliette, Guillory, performed nude in the film's sex scenes, which made her somewhat jittery. She went on to say that it was one of her favorite acting experiences. Guillory appeared in Love Actually shortly before being cast in the television miniseries Helen of Troy. The series was mainly based on Homer's epic poem Iliad, with a focus on Helen's mythological life. At the Satellite Awards, Helen of Troy had been nominated for the best miniseries.

Guillory performed in a new stage version of The Shape of Things at London's New Ambassadors Theatre in May 2004 with husband Cilenti. She appeared in her first big Hollywood role in that year. Jill Valentine, one of the main characters in the video game adaptation film Resident Evil: Apocalypse, was portraying her as Jill Valentine. The film makers had been looking for a woman to play the video game character in Guillory, where they had to "please not only the movie-going audience but also the gamers." Jill Valentine's "dead ringer." Guillory investigated the original character's movements by watching playthroughs of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. She had not been familiar with the video games or seen Resident Evil (2002) before getting the film script.

She said about her role:

Guillory appeared in other film and television roles, including Beauty (2004), Silence Becomes You (2005), and Rabbit Fever (2006), following the success of Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

Guillory played a key role in Christopher Paolini's ensemble cast of the fantasy Eragon, a film adaptation; the actress reunited her with co-star Jeremy Irons in 2006. She portrayed Arya Dröttningu, an elf princess. She hadn't read the novels before filming, but after accepting the role, she became a Paolini fan. "I'm like, [...] but that's my whole part," Guillory said jokingly, "I've been trying to tell people who's seen the trailer." The critics did not like Eragon, but the 2006 Saturn Awards were named Best Fantasy Film. The film earned approximately $75 million in the United States and $173.9 million elsewhere, totaling $249 million worldwide. In Resident Evil: Extinction, the sequel to Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Guillory was invited to reprise her role as Jill Valentine, but she was unable to accept due to scheduling conflicts with Eragon.

She appeared in El Corazón de la tierra, or The Heart of the Earth, in Spain, and finished filming the horror/thriller Victims and the fantasy novel version Inkheart later this year. Resa is Barbara Bennett's character and Eliza Bennett's mother. When she first had aspirations to acting, Guillory fought alongside Helen Mirren, a Guillory family friend who served as a role model.

Guillory was supposed to lead the television series The Oaks, which was supposed to debut in 2008. In the series, she starred Bahar Soomekh, Matt Lanter, Romy Rosemont, Jeremy Renner, Michael Rispoli, and Shannon Lucio, a young couple who lost a child in 1998, a young couple who are haunted by the same spirit in their household. On location in Pasadena, California, the television series premiered on November 5th, 2007. Jessica, the 2008 couple's neighbor with Asperger syndrome who went to school with the husband (and father-to-be), will be played by Guillory.

In May 2010, Shock Till You Drop.com reported the return of Jill Valentine in Resident Evil's fourth film series, Resident Evil: Afterlife, with Guillory reprising the role. Jovovich revealed on May 31 that Guillory would return as Jill. In a mid-end credit scene, Guillory reappears in the film. In Resident Evil: Retribution, she reprised her role as the main antagonist of the film.

Natalie Yelburton, a scientist, appeared in Sky Atlantic's latest thriller series Fortitude, where she appears in the fictional Arctic oil settlement of the same name. She appeared in the third season of the show's second season in 2016 and appeared in the third season.

Eve appeared in Sky One's latest film, Stan Lee's Lucky Man, in January 2016. She returned to both the second and third seasons.

In Liam Gallagher's "Paper Crown" music video, she appeared as the only actor in the film.

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