Sienna Miller
Actress
Deauville Talent Award 2019 of the 45th American Film Festival
Born in New York, Sienna Miller went to school in England before studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. She made her first steps in the cinema alongside Daniel Craig in Layer Cake by Matthew Vaughn in 2004. She was then noticed in several feature films, including Casanova by Lasse Hallström (2005), Factory Girl - Portrait of a Muse by George Hickenlooper (2006), Interview by Steve Buscemi (2007), The Edge of Love by John Maybury (2008) or G.I. Joe - Rise of the Cobra by Stephen Sommers (2009).
In 2008, she was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress for her performance opposite Steve Buscemi in Interview. That same year, she was also nominated for a British Independent Film Award (Bifa) for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Edge of Love and a Rising Star Award at the Bafta Awards. In 2013, she was nominated for both a Bafta and a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie for her role in The Girl, an HBO-produced drama directed by Julian Jarrold in which she plays Tippi Hedren, Alfred Hitchcock's actress and muse.
In 2015, Sienna Miller stars alongside Steve Carell and Channing Tatum in Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, which was presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar in five different categories. The same year, she played alongside Bradley Cooper in the drama American Sniper by Clint Eastwood. This critical and public success was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture and broke records at the American box office. Also in 2015, Sienna Miller participates in other projects such as the comedy Jet Lag by Ken Scott with Vince Vaughn, To the point! by John Wells, in which she reunites with Bradley Cooper, or High-Rise by Ben Wheatley with Tom Hiddleston and Luke Evans. For her performance in the latter film, she was nominated for a Bifa for Best Supporting Actress. She then played the captivating Emma Gould in Ben Affleck's film noir Live by Night, set in Prohibition-era Boston. She also plays the feminist before her time Nina Fawcett in James Gray's historical drama The Lost City of Z, which closed the New York Film Festival in October 2016 and received its international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2017.
Her most recent projects include Jake Scott's American Woman, produced by Scott Free Productions and written by Brad Ingelsby, in which her performance alongside actors Aaron Paul and Christina Hendricks received unanimous critical acclaim. This year, she also played Elizabeth Ailes, the wife of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, played by Russell Crowe, in the TV movie The Loudest Voice.
She will soon be starring in Brian Kirk's action thriller 21 Bridges, in which she plays a New York City police officer on a manhunt and stars with Chadwick Boseman and J. K. Simmons.
In the theater, Sienna Miller is a standout in Sam Mendes' 2015 Broadway version of Cabaret, but also in After Miss Julie, also on Broadway, Flare Path at London's Haymarket Theatre, As You Like It at Wyndham's Theatre, and recently in Young Vic's version of The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Apollo Theatre in London. In addition to her acting career, Sienna Miller is also an ambassador for the International Medical Corps.
Tribute evening on the occasion of the 45th edition of the American Festival of Deauville in his presence on Wednesday, September 11, followed by the screening of the film American woman by Jake Scott.