Georgina Rylance

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Georgina Elizabeth Rylance (born 20 April 1976) is an English actress, best known for Dinotopia .

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Early life

Born in Ladbroke Grove in 1976, [1] [2] Rylance has a younger sister, Charlotte, and is the daughter of Judge John Rylance KC, a circuit judge, by his marriage to Philippa Bailey. [3] She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, London, Downe House School, St Edward's School, Oxford, [4] and Oxford Brookes University. [2]

After being recruited in a pub on the Portobello Road, London, during the Notting Hill Carnival, the eighteen-year-old Rylance embarked on a short modelling career which included a Coca-Cola commercial. However, it ended when she accepted a place at Oxford Brookes to read politics and publishing. [2]

Screen career

After leaving Oxford Brookes, Rylance trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. While she was a drama student, she was a regular in the audience at the Gate Theatre. [2] [5]

Rylance's first screen role was in Howard Davies's television movie Armadillo (2001) as Amabel. She played Marion Waldo in ABC's thirteen-part television series of Dinotopia , Helena in Spartacus (a TV movie for USA Network, 2004), Rachel Kelly, the on-screen daughter of Mark Rylance (unrelated), in The Government Inspector (2005), [6] and Suza in the film 7 Seconds (2005). Other television appearances include Manchild , Keen Eddie , As If , The Inspector Lynley Mysteries , Scooterman , New Tricks , and War Machine . [4]

Theatre

In 2015, Rylance starred in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya , [7] and in 2017 appeared in a revival of Noël Coward’s "This Was a Man" at the Finborough Theatre. [8] [9]

Personal life

In 2008, Rylance met Greg Bailey, a Canadian doctor, in Los Angeles and in 2009 was living with him in an apartment in Knightsbridge, Westminster. The same year, she spent a month in Antarctica and several weeks in Peru, working in an orphanage. [2]

In April 2015, her father announced Rylance's engagement to Giuseppe (Peppe) Ciardi, [10] and their son Teodoro was born in February 2016. [11] Ciardi, a hedge fund manager, was a widower with three grown-up children, having lost his wife in a boating accident in 2005. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ RYLANCE, Georgina Elizabeth, mmn Bailey, in Register of Births for Hammersmith Registration District, vol. 12 (1976), p. 1917
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Annie Deakin, Georgina Rylance profile Archived 15 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine , grovemagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  3. ↑ BAILEY, PHILLIPA A., and RYLANCE, John R. T., in Register of Marriages for Chippenham Registration District, vol. 23 (1974), p. 1257
  4. 1 2 Georgina Rylance at IMDb
  5. ↑ Georgina Rylance profile Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine , TV.com. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  6. ↑ Dave Rolinson. "BFI Screenonline: Government Inspector, The (2005)". screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  7. ↑ Tripney, Natasha (5 March 2015). "Uncle Vanya | Theatre". The Stage. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  8. ↑ Philip Fisher. "Theatre review: This Was a Man at Finborough Theatre". Britishtheatreguide.info. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  9. ↑ Lyn Gardner (23 July 2014). "This Was a Man review – first ever outing for Coward's once-banned play | Stage". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  10. ↑ Mr G. D. F. C. Ciardi and Miss G. E. Rylance at telegraph.co.uk, accessed 14 April 2019
  11. ↑ Georgina Ciardi. "CIARDI – Births Announcements – Telegraph Announcements". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  12. ↑ Ed Vulliamy, Barbara McMahon, London woman killed by speedboat in Italy, The Guardian , 12 August 2005
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