Kelly Reilly Net Worth

About Kelly Reilly

She has played numerous roles on the English stage since her first professional appearance. Terry Johnson was her co-worker on four different films: Elton John‘s Glasses (1997), The London Cuckolds (1998), The Graduate (2000), and Piano/Forte (2002). In an interview, Reilly credited Karel Reisz, who directed her in The Yalta Game in 2001 in Dublin, as the person who taught her the most about acting.

She was born in 1977 in Chessington to a hospital receptionist mother and a police officer father. She got her GCSE in drama at Kingston’s Tolworth Girls’ School, where she also went to high school.

Her ancestors hail from Ireland. She tried out for a part in the May 7, 1995 episode of Prime Suspect 4: Inner Circle, which aired on ITV. As young, troubled wife Kathleen Le Saux, she starred in an episode of the Carlton UK Television period drama series “Bramwell” in 1996. Six years later, in the film Last Orders, she co-starred with Helen Mirren.

After making her cinematic debut in the British comedy Maybe Baby in 2000, Reilly went on to become a star of the London stage with her performance in After Miss Julie at the Donmar Warehouse in 2003, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress. She had the distinction of being the youngest nominee for the honor at the age of 26.

She then appeared as a minor character in the classic love story Pride & Prejudice (2005). Her performance as Wendy in Russian Dolls (Les Poupées Russes) earned her the Best Newcomer Award at the Cannes Film Festival that year. The British comedy film Mrs. Henderson Presents earned Reilly an Empire Award for Best Newcomer in 2006.

She earned prominent roles in the horror film Eden Lake (2008), the Sherlock Holmes films (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), the Denzel Washington and Luke Evans thriller Flight (2012), and the horror film 10×10 (2013). In recognition of her work as Nicole in Flight, she was presented with the Spotlight Award at the 2012 Hollywood Film Festival.

In the early 2000s, Reilly believed she was being typecast in comedic roles, so she intentionally sought out the part of young Amy in Last Orders, directed by Fred Schepisi.

After that, in 2001, she appeared in the Royal Court’s revival of Sarah Kane’s Blasted. She was dubbed “theatrical Viagra” by The Times. Reilly’s breakout role was in the 2008 horror thriller Eden Lake, and in 2009, she starred in a prominent part on British prime-time television in Above Suspicion. Reilly has also had appearances in three more significant films: Sherlock Holmes, Triage, and Me and Orson Welles.

From 2007 till 2009, Reilly dated actor Jonah Lotan. In 2009, she was nominated for an Olivier Award for her performance as Desdemona in a critically lauded production of Othello at the Donmar Warehouse. In 2010, Reilly’s performance in Eden Lake earned her a Best Actress nomination at the British Independent Film Awards.

In 2012, Reilly tied the knot with banker Kyle Baugher. In the same year, Reilly co-starred with Sam Rockwell in the film A Single Shot and shared a prominent part with Denzel Washington in Robert Zemeckis’s Flight. Reilly played Jordan Semyon, Vince Vaughn’s character Frank Semyon’s wife, on the second season of True Detective in 2015. Reilly debuted on Broadway in the same year, in Harold Pinter’s Old Times, at the American Airlines Theatre, opposite Clive Owen and Eve Best.

In the 2017 Sky TV series Britannia, Reilly plays Kerra, a Celtic queen who stood up to the Roman invasion of Britain.

Summing-Up

Kelly Reilly is an English actress who debuted on the small screen in 1995 with The Biz. Other notable TV appearances of hers include the lead parts in the American psychological medical drama Black Box (2014), the American anthology crime drama True Detective (2015), and the British historical fantasy drama Britannia (both 2009–2012). She has been starring alongside Kevin Costner as Beth Dutton on Yellowstone, a neo-Western drama, since 2018.