Talulah Jane Riley-Milburn''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005'';

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. Retrieved 3 November 2015. (born 26 September 1985) is an English actress. 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), '' The Boat That Rocked'' (2009), and ''

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'' (2010). She has also appeared on the

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'' (2016–2018) and the FX

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'' (2022).

Early life and education

Talulah Jane Riley-Milburn was born in

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, where she grew up as 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

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. , her father works as a

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and has written episodes of ''

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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), '' Marple'' (2006), and ''

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'' (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 ''

''.

Stage

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

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in 2005. Her performance in a 2006 revival of

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' '' Summer and Smoke'' was described by critic Rachel Read as "delightful".

Film

Riley played Mary Bennet in the 2005 version of ''

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'' 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 ''

'' (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

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. Available as a standalone download, ''The Summer House'' was the number one film on

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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

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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 t
''Encounters with Jane Austen: Celebrating 250 years.''

Other

She was featured on the March 2010 cover of ''

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''. In 2011, she was named a "Brit to Watch" by the

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Personal life

Riley married

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in 2010 at Dornoch Cathedral in the

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. The couple divorced in March 2012. In July 2013, Musk and Riley remarried. In a ''

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'' 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

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on 21 March 2016. The divorce was finalised in October 2016. Riley married actor

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on 22 June 2024 in

Filmography

References

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