Genevieve O'Reilly
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · Ahsoka as Mon Mothma
- 2022 · Star Wars: Andor as Mon Mothma
- 2022 · Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look as Mon Mothma (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2021 · Three Families as Rose
- 2021 · The Dry as Gretchen Schoner
- 2019 · Tolkien as Mrs. Smith
- 2019 · The Kid Who Would Be King as Sophie
- 2017 · Tin Star as Angela Worth
- 2017 · The Snowman as Birte Becker
- 2016 · Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as Mon Mothma
- 2016 · Star Wars: Go Rogue as Mon Mothma (voice)
- 2016 · The Legend of Tarzan as Alice Clayton
- 2016 · The Secret as Hazel Buchanan
- 2015 · Glitch as Elishia Glass
- 2015 · Survivor as Lisa Carr
- 2015 · Banished as Mrs. Mary Johnson
- 2014 · Star Wars Rebels as Mon Mothma (voice)
- 2014 · The Honourable Woman as Frances Pirsig
- 2013 · Crossing Lines as Sienna Pride
- 2013 · Endeavour as Annette Richardson
- 2012 · The Last Weekend as Daisy
- 2011 · Forget Me Not as Eve Fisher
- 2011 · Episodes as Jamie Lapidus
- 2009 · The Young Victoria as Lady Flora Hastings
- 2009 · Law & Order: UK as Claudia Martin
- 2007 · Diana: Last Days of a Princess as Princess Diana
- 2007 · The Time of Your Life as Kate
- 2007 · The Time of Your Life as Kate
- 2006 · The State Within as Caroline Hanley
- 2005 · The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant as
- 2005 · Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith as Mon Mothma
- 2004 · Cyber Wars as Dash MacKenzie
- 2004 · New Tricks as Miranda Armstrong
- 2003 · The Matrix Revolutions as Officer Wirtz
- 2003 · The Matrix Reloaded as Officer Wirtz
- 2002 · Young Lions as Kimberly Oswald
- 2002 · Spooks as Sarah Caulfield
- 2001 · Waking the Dead as Julie Rees
- 1999 · BeastMaster as Nagha
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Nina Morgan