Talulah Riley Biography

Talulah Jane Riley-Milburn (born 26 September 1985), known professionally as Talulah Riley, is an English actress. She has appeared in films such as Pride & Prejudice, St Trinian's, The Boat That Rocked, St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold and Inception.

Early life

Riley grew up in Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, the only child of Una Riley, founder of a security systems company and a PR company, and Doug Milburn, formerly head of the National Crime Squad. Her father now works as a screenwriter and has written episodes of Silent Witness, Prime Suspect and The Bill. Riley attended Cheltenham Ladies' College, Berkhamsted Collegiate School and Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls. While acting in London, she studied for a degree in Natural Sciences at the Open University.

Career

Television

Riley's television credits include episodes of Poirot (2003), Marple (2006), Doctor Who (2008's "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead"). She played Lila, a love-struck writer, in the short-lived E4 series Nearly Famous (2007). She plays Angela in the 2016 television series Westworld.

Stage

Riley made her stage debut in The Philadelphia Story at the Old Vic in 2005. Her performance in a 2006 revival of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke was described by critic Rachel Read as being "delightful".

Film

Riley appeared as a disguise used by Tom Hardy's character in Inception (2010). Also in 2010, The Summer House was released, which starred Riley in the lead role. By the end of the first day of release, it was the number one film on iTunes worldwide and dominated that position for several days. She also appeared in White Frog.

Other

She was featured on the March 2010 cover of Esquire.

In 2011, she was named a Brit to Watch by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Personal life

In 2008, Riley began dating billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and in 2010 they married at Dornoch Cathedral. In January 2012, Musk announced that he had ended his four-year relationship with Riley. In March 2012, Musk was seeking a divorce.

However, in July 2013, Musk and Riley remarried. In a 60 Minutes interview in 2014, the couple stated that they had reconciled and were living together again, along with Musk's five children from his first marriage to writer Justine Musk. On 31 December 2014, the Associated Press reported that Musk had filed for divorce; however the action was withdrawn. It was reported that Riley had been living separately from Musk for six months and filed for a second divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court on 21 March 2016. The divorce was finalised in October 2016.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Pride & Prejudice	Mary Bennet
2007	St Trinian's	Annabelle Fritton
2007	Friends Forever	Grace	Short film
2007	Wilder	Carro
2009	The Boat That Rocked	Marianne
2009	The Summer House	Jane	Short film
2009	St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold	Annabelle Fritton
2010	Inception	Eames as a Blonde Woman
2010	Love & Distrust	Jane	Archive footage of The Summer House
2011	The Dilemma	Concept Car Spokesmodel
2011	Revenge of the Electric Car	Herself	Documentary
2012	The Knot	Alexandra
2012	White Frog	Ms. Lee
2012	Transmission	TBA
2013	The Liability	The Girl
2013	In a World...	Pippa
2013	Thor: The Dark World	Asgardian Nurse
2015	Scottish Mussel	Beth	Writer/Director
2015	The Bad Education Movie	Phoebe
2016	Submerged	Jessie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Poirot	Young Angela Warren	Episode: "Five Little Pigs"
2006	Marple	Megan Hunter	Episode: "The Moving Finger"
2007	Nearly Famous	Lila Reed	Main role; 6 episodes
2008	Phoo Action	Lady Elenor Rigsby	Cancelled before broadcast
2008	Doctor Who	Miss Evangelista	Episodes: "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead"
2008	The Gemma Factor	Nell	Scenes not broadcast
2016	Westworld	Angela	Recurring role (season 1); main role (season 2); 6 episodes