/ˈɡɪləri/; born 16 March 1975) is an English actress, and former model. She is known for playing the title role in the TV miniseries,Helen of Troy, her portrayal of Jill Valentine in the science fiction action horror film Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and as elf princess Arya Dröttningu infantasy-adventure film, Eragon. She resumed her role as Jill Valentine in the action horror film Resident Evil: Afterlife in 2010, and in Resident Evil: Retribution scheduled for release September 14, 2012.Personal life
Early life and family
Born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, Guillory is the daughter of the American folk guitarist Isaac Guillory and his first wife, English model Tina Thompson, whom he married in 1973. Isaac Guillory was of Jewish heritage and born at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba, the son of an American sailor and his Turkish wife.Her parents moved to Fulham, London when Guillory was two, then later to Norfolk when she was eleven. At the age of ten, she went to stay with cousins in Mexico to learn Spanish. She has a half-brother named Jace, whom her father had adopted and with whom she shares the same mother. Her parents divorced in 1990 when she was fourteen, and in 1993, her father married Vickie McMillan, which resulted in a much younger half-sister and half-brother, Ellie and Jacob. Guillory attended Gresham’s School in Holt, Norfolk, where she took part in numerous school productions. She was later expelled from the school for stealing.
Guillory has been an equestrian since the age of two. At fourteen, she was given a horse, which she named The Night Porter, or “Porty”, after the film The Night Porter; Guillory was a fan of its leading actress Charlotte Rampling.
In December 2000, Guillory’s father died of cancer at the age of fifty-three.
Relationships
In 2000, Guillory began dating Enzo Cilenti, and the couple married in 2002. In February 2011, Guillory gave birth to twin daughters, Valentina and Lucia Cilenti, named after her grandmother and great aunt who were also twin sisters.Charity
In August 2004, Guillory and Cilenti cycled five stages of the Tour de France to raise money for charity.
