Genevieve O'Reilly
Birthday: Born in 1977-01-06 in Dublin, Ireland
Deathday: Alive
Genevieve O'Reilly (born January 6, 1977) is an Irish actress who has worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia. 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. O'Reilly is due to perform in George Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma from July 2012. 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 filmAvatar, 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 the final minutes of this pilot episode, her character was stabbed and killed with a knife used by an American State Department employee, Gerald Wilhoit (Eddie Jemison) who enjoyed Diplomatic Immunity, while the ICC team was chasing him (and searching for their abducted police colleague) in the Tiergarten Park in Berlin, Germany.
TV Credits
Star Wars: Go Rogue
Character: Mon Mothma (voice)
A stop motion animated Star Wars series, created by fans and Lucasfilm, to introduce the new Rogue One action figures from Tongal. The shorts follow the Rogue One character’s adventures throughout the galaxy as they battle the Empire....
Three Families
Character: Rose
Dramatisation of three real-life stories of how three families were each affected by Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law before it was lifted in 2019....
Law & Order: UK
Character: Claudia Martin
Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system....
The State Within
Character: Caroline Hanley
Action-packed conspiracy thriller series about Sir Mark Brydon, British Ambassador to Washington, who finds himself at the centre of a terrifying conspiracy that could bring down Western governments....
BeastMaster
Character: Nagha
BeastMaster chronicles the adventures of Dar, the last surviving male of the storied Sula tribe, who is blessed with the ability to communicate telepathically with the animals of his ancient world. Also endowed with the strength, courage and fighting skills of a great warrior, he uses his gifts to defend all living creatures oppressed by the forces of evil....
The Honourable Woman
Character: Frances Pirsig
Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank. Her efforts to reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians lands her an appointment to the House of Lords and creates an international political maelstrom....
Crossing Lines
Character: Sienna Pride
Through globalization, many countries have been opened and barriers removed to ensure easy trade, travel and cultural diversity. However, this openness has given opportunities to criminals looking to exploit the system and ultimately threaten our global safety. As Europe has become a "safe house" for criminals eluding law enforcers, a special kind of law enforcement team is needed to handle specific ongoing crimes on a global level. "Crossing Lines" is the story of one such team, made up of five...
Glitch
Character: Elishia Glass
A police officer and a doctor face an emotionally charged mystery when seven local residents inexplicably return from the dead in peak physical form....
New Tricks
Character: Miranda Armstrong
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes....
Banished
Character: Mrs. Mary Johnson
At its heart, Banished is a story of survival. Though it is set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet, it is not the story of Australia and how it came to be. Rather, it is a tale of love, faith, justice and morality played out on an epic scale in a confined community where the stakes are literally life and death....
The Secret
Character: Hazel Buchanan
The true story of a Sunday school teacher and respectable dentist and pillar of the community, who formed a murderous partnership....
Waking the Dead
Character: Julie Rees
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases....
Endeavour
Character: Annette Richardson
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future....
Ahsoka
Character: Mon Mothma
Former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy....
The Last Weekend
Character: Daisy
When Ian and Em receive a surprise invitation from their old friend Ollie to spend a weekend in the Suffolk countryside, they expect an idyllic holiday. But the competitive edge to the men's relationship soon rises to the surface, with irreversible consequences....
Tin Star
Character: Angela Worth
The story of Jim Worth, an expat British police officer starting a new life with his family as police chief in Little Big Bear, an idyllic town near the Rocky Mountains. When his small town is overrun by migrant workers from a massive new oil refinery – the wave of drugs, prostitution and organised crime that follows them threatens to sweep away everything in its wake....
The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant
Character:
Mary Bryant, a Cornish girl who was convicted of petty theft, is being transported to the Australian Penal Colony on the First Fleet with other prisoners bound for Botany Bay....
The Time of Your Life
Character: Kate
Kate, a 37-year old woman wakes up after being in a coma for 18 years. Her boyfriend, Pete, from her younger days is with a new woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to Kate. Many of her friends have also moved on with their lives. But when she finds out that her comatose body was discovered near the lifeless body of a kid named Brian near a woodshed, her memories of that fateful night are triggered and the truth begins to surface....
Star Wars Rebels
Character: Mon Mothma (voice)
Set between the events of Star Wars: Episodes III and IV, the story unfolds during a dark time when the evil Galactic Empire is tightening its grip of power on the galaxy. Imperial forces have occupied a remote planet and are ruining the lives of its people. The motley but clever crew of the starship Ghost — cowboy Jedi Kanan, ace pilot Hera, street-smart teenager Ezra, the “muscle” Zeb, warrior firebrand Sabine, and cantankerous old astromech droid Chopper — is among a select few who are brave ...
Spooks
Character: Sarah Caulfield
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid....
Midsomer Murders
Character: Nina Morgan
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty. ...
Episodes
Character: Jamie Lapidus
A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results....
Young Lions
Character: Kimberly Oswald
Young Lions was an Australian TV police drama broadcast on the Nine Network in 2002 and in Ireland on RTÉ Two.The series was based around the professional and private lives of four rookie detectives, the Young Lions, of South West 101, an inner city Sydney police station. The program rated poorly and was not renewed after its first season. Competition from other new drama series and several timeslot changes also contributed to the show's demise....
Andor
Character: Mon Mothma
In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference he can make in the struggle against the tyrannical Galactic Empire. He embarks on a path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero....
Movie Credits
The Matrix Reloaded
Character: Officer Wirtz
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has discovered his superpowers including super speed, ability to see the codes of the things inside the matrix and a certain degree of pre-cognition. But a nasty piece of news hits the human resistance: 250,000 machine sentinels are digging to Zion and woul...
Cyber Wars
Character: Dash MacKenzie
In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using illegal simulated identity implants (sims). A young bounty hunter who makes her living tracking sims, finds herself the unlikely ally of a police detective who suspects the CyberLink is being perverted for an insidious and deadly purpose....
Forget Me Not
Character: Eve Fisher
The film follows Will Fletcher, a musician, and Eve Fisher, who works in a pub where he is performing, during one night in London. After Will has saved Eve from a drunken customer at closing time, they stay up all night together, meandering through the streets of London and forging a relationship. Next morning, Eve takes him to see her Alzheimer's-suffering grandmother. The film is often compared to Richard Linklater's films "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset", as the style is very similar....
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Character: Mon Mothma (archive footage) (uncredited)
Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor....
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Character: Mon Mothma
The evil Darth Sidious enacts his final plan for unlimited power – and the heroic Jedi Anakin Skywalker must choose a side....
Survivor
Character: Lisa Carr
A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit....
The Young Victoria
Character: Lady Flora Hastings
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life....
Diana: Last Days of a Princess
Character: Princess Diana
A film about the last weeks of the life of one of the most famous women of the twentieth century - Diana, Princess of Wales. The sudden and tragic death of Diana in August 1997 shocked the world as much as the assassination of President Kennedy. The tragedy, which occurred August 31, 1997 from the beginning was surrounded by many conflicting rumors and the most improbable assumptions....
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Character: Mon Mothma
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy....
The Legend of Tarzan
Character: Alice Clayton
Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment....
The Time of Your Life
Character: Kate
A 35 year old woman, Kate, awakes from an eighteen year coma following a tragic accident to an unfamiliar world. As she tries to make sense of what has happened her family and old school friends are reluctant to dig up the past....
Tolkien
Character: Mrs. Smith
England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that strengthens as they grow up, but the outbreak of World War I threatens to shatter it....
The Snowman
Character: Birte Becker
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman....
The Kid Who Would Be King
Character: Sophie
Old-school magic meets the modern world when young Alex stumbles upon the mythical sword Excalibur. He soon unites his friends and enemies, and they become knights who join forces with the legendary wizard Merlin. Together, they must save mankind from the wicked enchantress Morgana and her army of supernatural warriors....
The Dry
Character: Gretchen Schoner
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl....
The Matrix Revolutions
Character: Officer Wirtz
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith....
Tank Boy
Character: Serena
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