Talulah Riley

Talulah Riley

Born Talulah Jane Riley-Milburn
(1985-09-26) 26 September 1985
Hertfordshire, England
Occupation Actress
Years active 2003–present
Spouse(s)
Elon Musk (m. 2010–div. 2012;
m. 2013–div. 2016)[1][2]

Talulah Jane Riley-Milburn[3] (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,[4] the only child of Una Riley, founder of a security systems company and a PR company,[5] 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.[6]

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 played Angela in the 2016 television remake of 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".[7]

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.[8][9][10] She also appeared in White Frog.[11]

Other

She was featured on the March 2010 cover of Esquire.[12][13]

In 2011, she was named a Brit to Watch by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.[14]

Personal life

In 2008, Riley began dating billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and in 2010 they married at Dornoch Cathedral.[15] In January 2012, Musk announced that he had ended his four-year relationship with Riley.[16][17] In March 2012, Musk was seeking a divorce.[18][19]

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.[20] On 31 December 2014, the Associated Press reported that Musk had filed for divorce; however the action was withdrawn.[21][22] 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.[2] The divorce was finalised in October 2016.[23]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2005 Pride & Prejudice Mary Bennet
2007St Trinian's Annabelle Fritton
2007Friends Forever Grace Short film
2007Wilder Carro[24]
2009The Boat That Rocked Marianne
2009The Summer House Jane Short film
2009St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold Annabelle Fritton
2010Inception Eames as a Blonde Woman
2010Love & Distrust Jane Archive footage of The Summer House
2011The Dilemma Concept Car Spokesmodel
2011Revenge of the Electric Car Herself Documentary
2012The Knot Alexandra
2012White Frog Ms. Lee
2012Transmission TBA
2013The Liability The Girl
2013In a World... Pippa
2013Thor: The Dark World Asgardian Nurse
2014 Submerged Jessie
2015 Scottish Mussel Beth Writer/Director
2015The Bad Education Movie Phoebe

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 6 episodes
2008 Phoo Action Lady Elenor Rigsby Cancelled before broadcast[25]
2008 Doctor Who Miss Evangelista Episodes: "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead"
2008 The Gemma Factor Nell Scenes not broadcast[26]
2016 Westworld Angela [27] 5 episodes[28]

References

  1. "Actor Talulah Riley files to divorce billionaire Elon Musk, again". The Guardian. 21 March 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2016. The pair first married in 2010 and divorced in 2012. They remarried 18 months later.
  2. 1 2 "Actor Talulah Riley files to divorce billionaire Elon Musk, again". The Guardian. Associated Press. 21 March 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  3. Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005; ancestry.com; accessed 3 November 2015.
  4. Talulah Riley: 'Fifty Shades inspired me to create a sexually conniving female character' Retrieved 2016-10-29.
  5. "Talulah Riley: how to marry a billionaire". London Evening Standard. 26 November 2010.
  6. Lesley O'Toole (17 May 2013). "Actress Talulah Riley shares her obsession with mortality and life with a billionaire". Metro.
  7. Read, Rachel (27 September 2006). "Summer and Smoke @ Nottingham Playhouse". BBC Nottingham.
  8. Brodie, Anne (26 July 2010). "Talulah Riley - The Summer House/Inception". Monsters and Critics.
  9. Palacios, Kim (23 July 2010). "Robert Pattinson's short film "The Summer House" dominates iTunes". Hollywood News.
  10. "Pattinson's Summer House is an iTunes Smash" (Press release). Shorts International. 23 July 2010.
  11. "White Frog – Official Website". Whitefrogthemovie.tumblr.com. 26 July 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  12. Singh, Anita (3 February 2010). "Talulah Riley: the world's sexiest quantum physicist?". The Telegraph.
  13. "Girls on top: The next generation of British actresses". The Independent. 24 July 2009. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  14. "42 Brits to Watch announced" (PDF). Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  15. Alan Boyle (18 January 2012). "SpaceX's millionaire founder tweets about marital split". NBCNews.com. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  16. Elliott, Hannah (3 March 2012). "At Home With Elon Musk: The (Soon-to-Be) Bachelor Billionaire". Forbes. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
  17. Lai, Jennifer (19 January 2012). "Elon Musk Divorce: Announces Split From Talulah Riley On Twitter". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  18. "At Home With Elon Musk: The (Soon-to-Be) Bachelor Billionaire". Forbes. 26 March 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  19. Troup, Rose (22 August 2012). "SpaceX founder Elon Musk pays wife $4 million in divorce settlement". The Telegraph. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  20. "Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk's industrial empire". 30 March 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  21. "Elon Musk, actress wife split again". news.yahoo.com. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  22. "Elon Musk, actress wife split again". 2 January 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  23. "Elon Musk and Talulah Riley reach divorce settlement". TV3 (Ireland). 21 October 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
  24. Foreman, Liza (24 May 2007). "Make my day. Make my film". Times Online.
  25. Holmwood, Leigh (17 November 2008). "BBC3 drops new drama Phoo Action". guardian.co.uk.
  26. Coates, Brian (9 July 2008). "Lights, camera, rain... BBC film crew comes to Calderdale to shoot comedy drama". Halifax Today.
  27. "HBO's Westworld Creators Talk AI, Sentience, And Surveillance". Fast Company. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  28. "Westworld (2016– ) : Full Cast & Crew". IMDb.com. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
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