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Name: Sienna Guillory
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Date of Birth:
May 31, 1975
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Place of Birth:
Fulham, London
Mini-bio:
Guillory made her first appearance on the small screen in 1993, with the UK television series Riders, and followed it up with The Buccaneers, opposite Mira Sorvino. Since 1995, she took a break from a...( read more)cting and started working as a model for the agency, Select Models. As a model, she worked for respected labels like Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Burberry, Paul Smith, and also the face of Hugo Boss's fragrance campaign for three years. She returned to acting in 2000, by beating 200 hopefuls, with the BBC television series Take a Girl Like You. She garnered critical acclaim for playing the coveted role of the virginal heroine, Jenny Bunn, in the series, based on Kingsley Amis' novel of the same name.
Her potential as an elite actress is evident in the quality of the roles that she has attracted. Guillory is best known for her role as Jill Valentine in Resident Evil Apocalypse and in the TV miniseries Helen of Troy, opposite Rufus Sewell, enacting the title role of Helen, considered to be the most beautiful woman to have graced the earth. About the latter, she has said, "I can't think of a bigger compliment than to be cast as the woman whose beauty has become legendary." The role of Helen required some partial nudity. Though Guillory didn't mind too much, she is quoted in Playboy magazine as saying that she "didn't like [her] nipples showing because they [looked] like targets”.
Guillory took to the big screen as a natural progression. She starred in movies like The Time Machine, Principles of Lust and Love Actually, amongst others. But it was Resident Evil: Apocalypse, which Guillory did with Milla Jovovich, that gave her a firm footing in Hollywood. She is currently shooting for the movie Eragon, based on the novel by Christopher Paolini, in which she plays the role of Arya, an elven princess, a role for which she had to beat 2000 hopefuls to get. She is also supposedly involved in the filming of Resident Evil: Extinction, but there has been much speculation as to whether or not she is really in the movie due to conflicting statements from various sources. The latest news is an official statement from Screen Gems (August 28, 2006) which suggests that she is, due to casual mention of her name among others.