Genevieve O'Reilly Biography

Genevieve O'Reilly (born 6 January 1977) is an Irish actress who has worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia.

Background

O'Reilly was born in Dublin and raised in Adelaide. She is the eldest of four siblings. At the age of twenty O'Reilly moved to Sydney to attend the National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2000. In 2005 she moved to the UK with her husband, and currently lives in London.

Career

O'Reilly was cast as the understudy in director Gale Edwards' production of The White Devil a week after graduating from drama school. She went on to appear in Edwards' Sydney Theatre Company production of The Way of the World. Other theatre credits include The Weir by Conor McPherson, at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, and Richard II at the Old Vic. Recent parts at the Royal National Theatre have been in new play, Mike Bartlett's 13, and as Helena, wife to Andrew Scott's emperor Julian in the 2011 production of Ibsen's epic Emperor and Galilean. In July 2012, O'Reilly performed in George Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma.

O'Reilly has appeared in several productions filmed in Australia, including both The Matrix sequels. She also played the young Mon Mothma in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, and starred as Leanne Curtis in the medical drama All Saints.

Since moving to the UK, O'Reilly has starred in the political mini-series The State Within, played Princess Diana in the 2007 television docudrama Diana: Last Days of a Princess, and taken the lead role in The Time of Your Life. She played CIA liaison officer Sarah Caulfield in the eighth series of BBC drama Spooks. O'Reilly also played the character of Michelle Beadley in the remake of The Day of the Triffids that aired on BBC One in December 2009.

In 2011 she appeared in the BBC/Showtime comedy Episodes playing Jamie Lapidus, the blind wife of a TV executive, Merc Lapidus. She reprised the role in the second and third series, broadcast in 2012 and 2014.

O'Reilly's film credits include Right Here Right Now (2004), The Young Victoria (2009) and the 2004 science fiction film Avatar, playing the lead role of Dash MacKenzie.

In June 2013, O'Reilly appeared in the pilot episode of the international crime drama Crossing Lines cast as detective and interrogation specialist Sienna Pride, attached to the ICC team from Britain's Scotland Yard.

In early 2015, O'Reilly starred as Mary Johnson in Jimmy McGovern's Banished, a television drama focusing on British convicts in an Australian penal colony.

In late 2016, she will reprise her role as Mon Mothma in Rogue One.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	BeastMaster	Nagha	Episode: "Slayer's Return"
2002	Young Lions	Kimberly Oswald	Episode: "Asylum Seekers"
2002-2005	All Saints	Leanne Curtis	Medical drama
2005	The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant	Allcia	Television film
	Life	Shelly Deane	Television film
	Second Chance	Susie Fulham	Television film
2006	The State Within	Caroline Hanley	Miniseries
2007	The Time of Your Life	Kate	TV series
	Diana: Last Days of a Princess	Diana, Princess of Wales	Docudrama
2009	Spooks	Sarah Caulfield	TV series
	The Day of the Triffids	Michelle Beadley	TV series
2011	Waking the Dead	Julie Rees	TV series
	Midsomer Murders	Nina Morgan	TV series
2011-2014	Episodes	Jamie Lapidus	TV series
2013	Crossing Lines	Sienna Pride	TV series
2014	The Honourable Woman	Frances Pirsig	TV series
2015	Banished	Mary Johnson	TV series
	Glitch	Elishia McKellar	TV series
2016	Endeavour	Annette Richardson	TV series
2016	The Secret	Hazel Buchanan	TV miniseries

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2003	The Matrix Reloaded	Officer Wirtz
	The Matrix Revolutions	Officer Wirtz
2004	Right Here Right Now	Pizza Girl
	Avatar	Dash MacKenzie
2005	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith	Mon Mothma	Silent cameo The scenes in which the character speaks were deleted in post-production
2009	The Young Victoria	Lady Flora Hastings
2010	Forget Me Not	Eve
2016	The Legend of Tarzan	Tarzan's mother
	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	Mon Mothma