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| Birth Name(s) : Sienna Tiggy Guillory |
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Full Sienna Guillory Biography
Sienna Tiggy Guillory (pronounced "Gil-ir-ee" (IPA: /ˈɡɪlərɪ/)) (born March 16, 1975) is an English actress and former model. She was daughter to Isaac Guillory, an Anglo-Cuban folk guitarist, and the family environment gave her an interest in the entertainment industry. She has been featured in numerous British productions, and has gone on to roles in American productions. More recently, Guillory has appeared in a number of science-fiction and fantasy themed films aimed at teenage audiences.
Guillory will appear in yet another fantasy novel adaptation, the upcoming film Inkheart, as Resa. She will also star in the Fox television series The Oaks, and a pilot is planned to begin filming in November 2007. The Oaks will be broadcast in 2008.
Guillory has been an equestrian since the age of two. At fourteen, she was given a horse, which she named The Night Porter, or "Porty", after the film The Night Porter; Guillory was a fan of its leading actress Charlotte Rampling. She still often rides horses with her mother.
In December 2000, Guillory's father died of cancer at the age of fifty-three. When diagnosed, doctors told him he had had the cancer for six years. About her father's health, she has explained that the cancer was supposedly brought on when Isaac was performing in Wales shortly after the nuclear incident at Chernobyl. After his show, Isaac Guillory wore a jacket soaked in rain from the Welsh location for a five hour drive. He learned afterwards that the rain contained fallout from the incident. Isaac's cancer was on his back and shoulders, where he believed the rain had caused it.
Guillory describes herself as eclectic and a magpie dresser. She is a fan of the fashion line Moschino, but is not keen on what she describes as "fashion jeans".
In 1997, Guillory accompanied a ballerina friend to the London modelling agency Select and was soon signed. She modelled solely to support her acting career. As a model, she worked in campaigns for Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Burberry, and Paul Smith and appeared on the covers of British, German and Italian Vogue, among other fashion magazines. In 1999, she became the face of the Hugo Boss fragrance campaign, succeeding model Karen Ferrari and continuing the campaign for three years. After modelling for a few years, Guillory returned her focus to acting in 2000.
Guillory explained that she "became an actor because I wanted to know what it was like to be other people. Because possibly I don't like myself," and later said "I hate acting, really hate it. I kind of fell into it sideways ... I started acting because I got offered a job when I was 16, and they wanted to pay me 8,000 pounds, and we'd always lived on Family Support." She went on to say that her frustration with later film roles left her bitter, but after seeing Helen Mirren onstage she was inspired again.
In 1993, Guillory made her screen debut in the British TV series Riders, for which the casting directors needed a young actress who was able to ride a horse. Her performance landed her in another small role in the miniseries The Buccaneers, opposite Mira Sorvino.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse, although it was not well received by critics, grossed $23,036,273 on its opening weekend (September 10-12 2004) and took a total of $51,201,453 in the United States and $129,394,835 worldwide.
After the success of Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Guillory went on to appear in other film and television roles, including Beauty (2004), Marple: A Murder Is Announced (2005), In the Bathroom (2005), The Virgin Queen (2005), Silence Becomes You (2005), and Rabbit Fever (2006).
In 2007, she starred in the Spanish production El Corazón de la tierra, or The Heart of the Earth, and later in the year finished filming the horror/thriller Victims and the fantasy novel adaptation Inkheart. In Inkheart, she plays Resa, the wife of Brendan Fraser's character and the mother of Eliza Bennett's. Inkheart sees Guillory acting alongside Helen Mirren, a friend of the Guillory family who was a role model when she first had aspirations towards acting.
While dating Nick Moran, and during their marriage, they were often photographed at outings and regarded as one of the "hottest couples of the moment".Guillory on the cover of Esquire in March 2001. She was voted Britain's most eligible woman by readers of the men's magazine.
In 2001, following the end of her well publicised relationship with Moran, readers of American Esquire voted Guillory "Britain's Most Eligible Woman" and featured her in a pictorial in the magazine. This was despite the moderately successful film roles she had had in the United States, where Esquire was published. Guillory was photographed for the cover and shoot by photographer Jonathan Glynn Smith. In 2002, she was number 89 on Maxim's list of "The 100 Sexiest Women", and in 2007 Guillory was voted number 54 at Askmen.com's Top 99 Countdown.
She has also made comments on how Hollywood can change people, gaining some controversy in 2004 after criticising fellow British actress Kate Beckinsale:“In Hollywood, women hate each other. Everyone is so bitchy and they don't want younger actresses coming in and taking their roles. You only have to look at what it's done to Kate Beckinsale. She used to be cool. Now I've heard she's got a clause in her contract saying that she can't be filmed bending over at more than a 45-degree angle because her boob implants slide up onto her collar bone” |
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