Georgina Rylance


Georgina Elizabeth Rylance is an English actress, best known for Dinotopia.

Early life

Born in Ladbroke Grove in 1976, Rylance has a younger sister, Charlotte, and is the daughter of Judge John Rylance QC, a circuit judge, by his marriage to Philippa Bailey. She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, London, Downe House School, St Edward's School, Oxford, and Oxford Brookes University.
After being recruited in a pub on the Portobello Road, London, during the Notting Hill Carnival, the eighteen-year-old Rylance embarked on a short modelling career which included a Coca-Cola commercial. However, it ended when she accepted a place at Oxford Brookes to read politics and publishing.
She then trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. While she was a drama student, she was a regular in the audience at the Gate Theatre.

Personal life

In 2008, she met Canadian doctor Greg Bailey in Los Angeles and in 2009 was living with him in an apartment in Knightsbridge, London. The same year, she spent a month in Antarctica and several weeks in Peru, working in an orphanage.
In 2011, she did a tandem skydive to raise money for CRISIS charity.
In 2015, her father announced Rylance's engagement to Giuseppe Ciardi, and their son Teodoro was born in February 2016. Georgina Rylance played the on-screen daughter of Mark Rylance in the 2005 movie The Government Inspector.

Filmography

Recent Theatre Noël Coward "This Was a Man"
Starring in Uncle Vanya, Chekov
Filming 2015 War Machine with Brad Pitt
Georgina Rylance's first screen role was in Howard Davies's television movie Armadillo as "Amabel". She played Rachel Kelly in 2005's The Government Inspector, Suza in 2005's film 7 Seconds, Helena in Spartacus and Marion Waldo in ABC's thirteen-part TV series of Dinotopia. Other television appearances include Manchild, Keen Eddie, As If, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Scooterman, and New Tricks.