Talulah Jane Riley-Milburn''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005''; Ancestry.com. Retrieved 3 November 2015. (born 26 September 1985) is an English actress and writer. She has appeared in films, including '' Pride & Prejudice'' (2005), '' St Trinian's'' (2007) and its sequel '' St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold'' (2009), ''

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'' (2009), and ''

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'' (2010). Riley portrayed Angela on the HBO science-fiction Western television series ''

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'' (2016–2018) and Vivienne Westwood in the FX miniseries '' Pistol'' (2022).

Early life and education

Riley grew up in

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in Hertfordshire, the only child of Una Riley, founder of a security systems company and a

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company, and Doug Milburn, formerly head of the National Crime Squad. , her father works as a screenwriter and has written episodes of '' Silent Witness'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Riley was educated at

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, independent Berkhamsted Collegiate School, and Haberdashers' Girls' School. While acting in London, she studied for a degree in Natural Sciences at the

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Career

Television

Riley's television credits include episodes of ''

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'' (2003), ''

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'' (2006), '' Doctor Who'' (2008's "

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" and "

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"). She played Lila, a love-struck writer, in the short-lived E4 series '' Nearly Famous'' (2007). She played Angela in the first two seasons of the television series ''

''.

Stage

Riley made her stage debut in '' The Philadelphia Story'' at the

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in 2005. Her performance in a 2006 revival

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' ''

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'' was described by critic Rachel Read as being "delightful".

Film

Riley played Mary Bennet in the 2005 version of '' Pride and Prejudice'', acted in the role of Marianne in 2009's ''

'', and 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 ''

'' (2010). Also in 2010, '' Love and Distrust'' was released direct-to-video, featuring five unique short films; the first of these 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 also starred in the resulting feature film ''

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''.

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 & Soughton.

Other

She was featured on the March 2010 cover of '' Esquire''. In the year 2011, she was named a "Brit to Watch" by the

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Personal life

In 2008, Riley began dating

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; they married in 2010 at Dornoch Cathedral in Scotland. In January 2012, Musk ended their relationship, and sought a

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in March 2012. In July 2013, Musk and Riley remarried. In a '' 60 Minutes'' interview in 2014, the couple stated that they had reconciled and were living together again, along with Musk's five remaining children from his first marriage to writer Justine Musk. On 31 December 2014, Musk filed for divorce a second time although he later withdrew the action. After living separately for six months, Riley filed for a second divorce in

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on 21 March 2016. The divorce was finalised in October 2016. Since July 2022, it has been reported that Riley is dating actor

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after meeting while working together on '' Pistol''. During Elon Musk's acquisition of

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in October 2022, text exchanges between Musk and Riley were released where she pleaded with him to buy

, asking "Please do something to fight

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-ism. I will do anything to help! xx"

Filmography

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Riley, Talulah 1985 births Living people English expatriates in the United States English film actresses English stage actresses English television actresses People educated at Haberdashers' Girls' School People from Hemel Hempstead People educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College Alumni of the Open University 21st-century English actresses British expatriate actresses in the United States Musk family