Talulah Riley

Early life and education

Talulah Jane Riley-Milburn was born on 26 September 1985 in Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, where she grew up as the only child of Una Riley, founder of a security systems company and a public relations company, and Doug Milburn, formerly head of the National Crime Squad. Her father has worked as a screenwriter, writing episodes of Silent Witness and The Bill. Riley was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, independent Berkhamsted Collegiate School, and Haberdashers' Girls' School. While acting in London, she studied for a degree in Natural Sciences at the Open University.

Career

Television

Riley's television credits include episodes of Poirot (2003), Marple (2006), and Doctor Who (2008's "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead"). She played Lila, a lovestruck writer, in the short-lived E4 series Nearly Famous (2007). She played Angela in the first two seasons of the television series 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 "delightful".

Film

Riley played Mary Bennet in the 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice and Marianne in 2009's The Boat That Rocked. She starred in the 2007 film St Trinian's and its 2009 sequel St Trinian's: The Legend of Fritton's Gold.

Riley appeared as a disguise used by Tom Hardy's character in Inception (2010). Also in 2010, Love and Distrust was released direct-to-video, featuring five unique short films, the first of which was The Summer House, in which Riley was co-lead, opposite Robert Pattinson. Available as a standalone download, The Summer House was the number one film on iTunes worldwide on its first day of release, holding that position for several days. She also appeared in White Frog.

Between 2009 and 2015, Riley developed an idea and story by her father into a screenplay, then ultimately directed (after being unable to hire another director to helm the project) and starred in the resulting feature film Scottish Mussel.

Writing

Her debut novel, Acts of Love, was published by Hodder & Stoughton in August 2016. In June 2022, Riley released her second novel, The Quickening, also published by Hodder & Stoughton. She is also listed as a contributor to Encounters with Jane Austen: Celebrating 250 years.

Other

She was featured on the March 2010 cover of Esquire. In 2011, she was named a "Brit to Watch" by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Personal life

In 2008, Riley began a relationship with businessman and entrepreneur Elon Musk. They married two years later at Dornoch Cathedral in the Scottish Highlands. The couple divorced in March 2012.

In July 2013, Musk and Riley remarried. In a 60 Minutes interview in 2014, the couple said they had reconciled and were living together again, along with Musk's five children from his first marriage to Justine Wilson. On 31 December 2014, Musk filed for divorce a second time, but later withdrew the action. After living separately for six months, Riley filed for a second divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court on 21 March 2016. The divorce was finalised in October 2016.

Riley married actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster on 22 June 2024 in Hertfordshire.

Filmography

References

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