Sienna Guillory

SIENNA GUILLORY is a highly regarded actress and budding filmmaker. She collaborated on her first feature as a writer, working on a psychological thriller called The Wicked Within. Guillory stars alongside Eric Roberts.

Guillory played Antonio Banderas' muse in the indie film The Big Bang. She starred opposite Andrew Garfield in Spike Jonze's romantic robot short, I'm Here. Her other film credits include playing Jamie's girlfriend in Love Actually, Arya in Eragon, Emma in The Time Machine and Resa in Inkheart. She first appeared as Jill Valentine in Resident Evil: Apocalypse and reprised the role in Resident Evil: Afterlife.

On television, Guillory is known for roles such as Helen in "Helen of Troy" as well as her critically acclaimed performance as Jenny Bun in the BBC adaptation of "Take a Girl Like You."

British American, Guillory was born in 1975 to hippie parents: her father was a Cuban-born guitarist and singer songwriter, and her mother was a model in the '60s. She split her childhood between the folk-music festival scene and her grandparents' country estate, where she spent her days riding horses. Guillory then went to an all-girl boarding school and spent a summer attending the Jacques Lecoq school of mime. Starring in a TV miniseries at age 17, she then left school to pursue her acting career.

Guillory supported her acting habit as a waitress before signing with modeling agency Select in 1995, at the ripe age of 20. She was featured in campaigns for Hugo Boss, Burberry, Paul Smith, Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, John Richmond and Gap.

Living in New York until 1999, she collaborated on various independent and short films. In 2006, the London Institute of Creative Arts ran a retrospective of Guillory's work in short films.

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