Sienna Miller

Sienna Miller (birthname: Sienna Rose Diana Miller) is an American-born British actor as well known for her public image as a self-styled fashion icon and a string of stormy relationships as she is for her film portrayals in features by several major filmmakers, including Clint Eastwood, Bennett Miller, James Gray, Ben Wheatley, Anna Boden, and Ryan Fleck. Miller’s feature debut was with a supporting role in the Italian-British rom-com, South Kensington (2001), with Rupert Everett, Elle Macpherson, Judith Godreche, and Jean-Claude Brialy. Miller appeared in minor films like High Speed (2002) and The Ride (2002), followed by a small role in director Matthew Vaughn’s debut, Layer Cake (2004), starring Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, and Michael Gambon.

Miller caught attention for her turn in director/co-writer/co-producer Charles Shyer’s remake of Alfie (2004), starring Jude Law in the title role, with Marisa Tomei, Omar Epps, Nia Long, Jane Krakowski, and Susan Sarandon, and released by Paramount Pictures and United International Pictures. Miller landed her first co-starring role in director Lasse Hallstrom’s widely dismissed Casanova (2005), starring Heath Ledger, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, and Lena Olin, and premiering at the Venice film festival and released to poor box office by Touchstone/Disney.

Sienna Miller earned her first starring and title role in the Geroge Hickenlooper-directed biopic, Factory Girl (2006), with Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Mena Suvari, and Shawn Hatosy, with Miller receiving fine reviews despite poor box office for MGM and The Weinstein Company. Miller’s name was above the title for star/director/co-writer Steve Buscemi’s English-language remake of Theo van Gogh’s 2003 Dutch film, Interview (2007), in which Miller played a soap opera star being interviewed by a veteran political reporter, and which was released by Sony Pictures Classics.

Miller reunited with director/writer/producer Matthew Vaughn for the movie version of Neil Gaiman’s fantasy, Stardust (2007), co-starring Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Ricky Gervais, Rupert Everett, and Peter O’Toole, grossing $137 million for Paramount Pictures. Miller co-starred with Jon Foster and Peter Sarsgaard in director/writer/producer Rawson Marshall Thurber’s indie comedy-drama based on Michael Chabon’s 1988 novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2008), with Mena Suvari and Nick Nolte, and premiering at the Sundance film festival.

Sienna Miller co-starred with James Franco in the supernatural rom-com, Camille (2008), directed and co-produced by Gregory Mackenzie, proceeded to her first voice role in an animated movie with the Hungarian-U.K.-produced A Fox’s Tale (2008), and then Miller co-starred with Keira Knightley, Cillian Murphy, and Matthew Rhys as Dylan Thomas in The Edge of Love (2008), directed by John Maybury and premiering at the Edinburgh film festival. Miller stepped aboard her first sci-fi action movie as part of the ensemble of Hasbro/Paramount’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), with Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lee Byung-hun, Rachel Nichols, Jonathan Pryce, Said Taghmaoui, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, and Dennis Quaid, under Stephen Sommers’ direction, and earning over $302 million globally.

Miller joined co-star Golshifteh Farahani in director/co-writer Rachid Bouchareb’s English-language movie, Just Like a Woman (2012), followed by the indie film, Nous York (2012), and then Miller joined cinematographer-writer-director Bernard Rose for his film adaptation of Tolstoy’s 1956 story, Two Hussars, titled Two Jacks (2012), co-starring Danny Huston, Jack Huston, and Jacqueline Bisset, and which premiered at the Montreal World film festival. Miller co-starred with Heather Wahlquist, Melanie Griffith, Gena Rowlands, Ray Liotta, and Riley Keough in director/co-writer Nick Cassavetes’ drama, Yellow (2012), released by Medient Studios after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.

Sienna Miller was part of the ensemble of the rom-com written and co-produced by lead actor Justin Long, A Case of You (2013), with Evan Rachel Wood, Keir O’Donnell, Busy Phillips, Peter Dinklage, Brendan Fraser, and Vince Vaughn under Kat Coiro’s direction, and which premiered at the Tribeca film festival before a limited release by IFC Films. Miller played the wife of Mark Ruffalo’s Olympic wrestler character in Oscar-nominated filmmaker Bennett Miller’s stunning drama centering on tycoon John du Pont, played by Steve Carell, Foxcatcher (2014), with Channing Tatum, Vanessa Redgrave, and Anthony Michael Hall, and which premiered at the Cannes film festival and released by Sony Pictures Classics and Annapurna International.

Miller was cast by director Clint Eastwood opposite Bradley Cooper in the highly charged true-life military drama about Iraq War vet Chris Kyle, American Sniper (2014), with Luke Grimes, Jake McDorman, and Keir O’Donnell, and grossing over $547 million for Warner Bros. Pictures. Miller then supported Ben Mendelsohn and Ryan Reynolds in directors-writers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s gambling comedy-drama, Mississippi Grind (2015), released by A24 and premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.

Sienna Miller continued a busy period with the female role in the guy-led comedy, Unfinished Business (2015), which bombed for 20^th Century Fox. Then Miller leaped into the wild world of director Ben Wheatley’s and writer Amy Jump’s twisted adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s Dark High-Rise (2015), co-starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, and James Purefoy, and premiering at the Toronto film festival before opening care of StudioCanal. Miller reunited with Bradley Cooper in the restaurant drama, Burnt (2015), with Omar Sy, Daniel Bruhl, Matthew Rhys, Uma Thurman, Emma Thompson, Alicia Vikander, and Lily James under producer John Wells’ direction, released by The Weinstein Company.

Miller was picked by filmmaker James Gray as part of the notable cast for his ambitious version of David Grann’s non-fiction adventure epic backed by Amazon Studios and Bleecker Street, The Lost City of Z (2016), starring Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Angus Macfadyen, Ian McDiarmid, and Franco Nero, and earning raves from critics after premiering at the New York film festival. Miller joined up again with Ben Affleck (star, director, writer, producer) as a castmate in his similarly ambitious book adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel, Live by Night (2016), with Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson, Chris Messina, Zoe Saldana, and Chris Cooper, but which proved a commercial flop for Warner Bros. Pictures.

Sienna Miller starred in director-writer James Toback’s crime drama, An Imperfect Murder (2017), co-starring Alec Baldwin, Charles Grodin, and Colleen Camp, selected by the Venice film festival for an out-of-competition slot before a limited release by Quiver Distribution. Miller joined Paul Rudd, Mark Strong, Jeff Daniels, Guy Pearce, Paul Giamatti, Tom Wilkinson, Giancarlo Giannini, and Hiroyuki Sanada in the Ben Lewin-directed WW2 espionage drama, The Catcher Was a Spy (2018), distributed by IFC Films after a Sundance film festival premiere.

Miller earned some of the best reviews of her career as the title character in American Woman (2018), directed by Jake Scott and produced by his father, Ridley, with Christina Hendricks, Aaron Paul, Will Sasso, Pat Healy, and Amy Madigan, released by Vertical Entertainment after a Toronto film festival premiere. Miller co-starred with the late Chadwick Boseman in the NYPD drama from STXfilms, 21 Bridges (2019), with Stephan James, Keith David, Taylor Kitsch, and J.K. Simmons under Brian Kirk’s direction.

Sienna Miller starred in another American indie drama, writer-director Tara Miele’s Wander Darkly (2020), co-starring Diego Luna, Beth Grant, and Vanessa Bayer, which launched at the Sundance Film Festival and then released in limited pattern by Lionsgate. After Miller joined the distinguished cast led by Kristen Scott Thomas in her feature debut as director-writer, North Star (2023), with Scarlett Johansson, Freida Pinto, and Emily Beecham, and premiering at the Toronto film festival, Miller was cast by star-filmmaker Kevin Costner as co-star in his sprawling multi-part Western epic, Horizon: An American Saga—Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 (2024), with Sam Worthington, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jeff Fahey, Will Patton, Tatanka Means, Owen Crow Shoe, and Thomas Haden Church, released by Warner Bros. Pictures and K5 International after a Cannes film festival premiere.

Miller was then cast by director-writer Oren Moverman for his biopic on Groucho Marx (based on Steve Stollar’s memoir), Raised Eyebrows (date to be announced), with Geoffrey Rush (as Groucho) and Charlie Plummer.