Juliet Rylance

2.1. Birth and family

Juliet Rylance was born Juliet van Kampen on July 26, 1979, in Hammersmith, London, England. Her mother is Claire van Kampen, a renowned composer, and her father is Chris van Kampen, an architect. When Rylance was seven years old, her parents divorced. Her mother subsequently married the distinguished actor and director Mark Rylance, whose surname Juliet later adopted. She has a younger sister, Nataasha, who pursued a career as a filmmaker but passed away in 2012.

2.2. Education

Rylance received her professional training at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), a leading drama school in London. Her studies at RADA provided her with a strong foundation for her subsequent career in theatre, film, and television.

3.1. Theatre

Upon graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), Juliet Rylance secured her first major theatre role as Medea in Neil LaBute's Bash: Latter-Day Plays at the Union Theatre in London. She continued to build her stage career with significant performances at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, where she portrayed Perdita in The Winter's Tale and Cressida in Troilus and Cressida.

In 2007, Rylance took on the role of British writer Mary Sidney in I Am Shakespeare, a play written by her stepfather Mark Rylance and directed by Matthew Warchus. This production was staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre and subsequently toured across the UK. In the same year, Rylance co-founded her own production company, 'Theater of Memory', alongside her contemporaries David Sturzaker and director Tamara Harvey. Through this company, she starred in productions of Romeo and Juliet as Juliet and reprised her role as Medea in Bash: Latter-Day Plays.

In 2009, Rylance performed as Desdemona in Othello at the Theatre for a New Audience in New York City, a performance for which she received a nomination for a Lucille Lortel Award. The following year, she participated in the Sam Mendes-directed Bridge Project, a collaborative venture between the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn and The Old Vic in London. In this project, she played Rosalind in As You Like It and Miranda in The Tempest. Her performance as Rosalind earned her a 2010 Obie Award. Rylance continued her work in New York City, appearing in Three Sisters as Irina Sergeyevna Prozorova and The Cherry Orchard as Varya at the Classic Stage Company in 2011. In 2012, she played Sasha in Ivanov at the same venue. Her most recent known theatre role was as Catherine in The Winslow Boy at the American Airlines Theatre in New York City in 2013.

3.2. Film

Juliet Rylance made her film debut in the 2003 short film The Burl. She gained wider recognition in 2012 when she co-starred as Tracy Oswalt in the horror film Sinister. That same year, she appeared as Janelle in Frances Ha. In 2013, Rylance took on the role of Eva in Days and Nights, a film based on Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull, which was written and directed by her then-husband, Christian Camargo. She also served as a producer for this film. She reprised her role as Tracy Oswalt in the 2015 sequel, Sinister II. Her other notable film credits include Elizabeth Montgomery in A Dog's Purpose (2017), Rebecca in Love After Love (2017), and Angela Smythson in The Artist's Wife (2019). She also appeared in the 2024 film Arthur the King as Helena Light.

3.3. Television

Rylance has also had a significant presence in television. From 2014 to 2015, she was a series regular, appearing in 20 episodes of The Knick as Cornelia Robertson. In 2015, she portrayed Marie Curie in the episode "Unruly Elements" of The Mystery of Matter. She then starred as Alison Hawthorne-Price in 13 episodes of the 2016 series American Gothic. In 2018, she played Rebecca Harper, a series regular, in 8 episodes of the BBC drama McMafia. From 2020 to 2023, Rylance starred as Della Street in 16 episodes of the HBO series Perry Mason.

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