Georgina Rylance

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

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]

References
  1. RYLANCE, Georgina Elizabeth, mmn Bailey, in Register of Births for Hammersmith Registration District, vol. 12 (1976), p. 1917
  2. 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. 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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