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Genevieve O'Reilly
Irish-born Australian actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Genevieve O'Reilly (born 6 January 1977) is an Irish-Australian actress. She is known for portraying Mon Mothma in the Star Wars franchise beginning with Revenge of the Sith (2005), a role which earned her a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in season 1 of Andor. She has also amassed significant other acting credits on stage and in film and television.
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Early life and education
Genevieve O'Reilly was born on 6 January 1977 in Dublin, Ireland,[1] and at age ten emigrated to Adelaide, in South Australia.[2] She had two younger siblings when the family emigrated, eventually gaining Australian citizenship.[2][3]
O'Reilly moved to Sydney to attend the National Institute of Dramatic Art, eventually being accepted after three attempts.[2] She graduated in 2000.[4]
Career
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Theatre
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.[4] Other theatre credits include The Weir by Conor McPherson, at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, and Richard II at the Old Vic.[5][better source needed] Recent parts at the Royal National Theatre have been in new play, Mike Bartlett's 13,[citation needed] and as Helena, wife to Andrew Scott's emperor Julian in the 2011 production of Ibsen's epic Emperor and Galilean.
In July 2012, O'Reilly performed in George Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma.[6] In 2015 O'Reilly played Kathryn in Splendour by Abi Morgan at the Donmar Warehouse.[7] In 2017, she played Mary Carney in The Ferryman, first at the Royal Court Theatre and later at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End of London.[8]
Film
O'Reilly has appeared in several productions filmed in Australia,[citation needed] including Matrix franchise sequels, The Matrix Reloaded (2003), and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).[1] She also starred in the 2004 Singaporean science fiction film Avatar,[9] which also was marketed under the title Cyber Wars (2006), where she played the lead role of Dash MacKenzie.[10][9]
Star Wars
In 2005, O'Reilly played the young Mon Mothma in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith;[11] although most of her scenes were cut, they were included as bonus material for the 2005 DVD release.[11][12] In 2016, she reprised her role as Mon Mothma in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and voiced the same character in the animated TV show Star Wars Rebels in early 2017.[13][11] Per a Disney+ announcement in April 2020,[citation needed] O'Reilly would reprise her role as Mon Mothma in the first season of the series Andor, that premiered in September 2022.[14] She returned to the role in the Disney+ series Ahsoka in 2023 and then in the second season of Andor in 2025.[15]
Television
In television, O'Reilly's first appearance was in 2001 in the Canadian television series BeastMaster as a guest star in "Slayer's Return".[citation needed] The following year O'Reilly appeared in Young Lions as Kimberly Oswald in the episode "Asylum Seekers".[citation needed] O'Reilly then appeared as a prominent character in All Saints from 2002 to 2005 as Leanne Curtis.[citation needed] Since moving to the UK, O'Reilly starred in the political mini-series The State Within, (first episode 2 November 2006) played Princess Diana in the 2007 television docudrama Diana: Last Days of a Princess,[citation needed] and had the lead role in The Time of Your Life (summer 2007).[citation needed] In 2009, she played CIA liaison officer Sarah Caulfield in the eighth series of BBC drama Spooks.[16] She played Julie Rees in Harbinger, the two-part, season 9-opening episodes of Waking the Dead.[when?][citation needed] 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.[17]
From 2011 to 2014, O'Reilly appeared in the series Episodes as a recurring character alongside Matt LeBlanc.[citation needed] 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.[18] Later in 2014, O'Reilly appeared in the television mini series The Honourable Woman as Frances Pirsig.[citation needed] In 2015, O'Reilly appeared in the BBC television series Banished as Mary Johnson.[citation needed]
In early 2015, O'Reilly starred as Mary Johnson in Jimmy McGovern's Banished, a television drama focusing on British convicts in an Australian penal colony.[19] In 2015, O'Reilly also starred as Dr Elishia McKellar, in an Australian paranormal drama Glitch, set in fictional small country town called Yoorana.[citation needed] The six-episode first series won major awards.[citation needed] Series 2 was broadcast on ABC1 and Netflix toward the end of 2017.[citation needed] In 2016, O'Reilly appeared in the British drama The Secret, for which she gained acclaim and was reported to play her character "beautifully".[20]
In 2017, she was cast alongside Tim Roth as Angela Worth, in the British TV Series Tin Star.[citation needed]
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Personal life
In 2005, O'Reilly moved to London with her husband, Luke Mulvihill, intending to stay for a couple of years, but were still living there in 2020.[2] They have two children, a son and a daughter.[21][2]
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