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That original poster was not saying that Jude was a midget. She was referring to Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise. Saying he was a midget.
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Here's an article from The Observer (Sunday paper for The Guardian, UK)
What a trouper
[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]She is famous for being Jude Law's fiancee but emergency casting as Rosalind, Shakespeare's leading leading lady, may transform the actress's It Girl image[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Vanessa Thorpe
Sunday June 26, 2005
The Observer
[/font][font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Thursday night was so sultry in the West End that it would have put anyone off taking their seat in the auditorium of a theatre, let alone tackling Shakespeare's longest female part on stage for the first time at short notice. But for Sienna Miller, the 23-year-old actress and model who has been traded like pork belly on the celebrity market for about three years now, a lot was at stake. This was her golden chance to win not fame, for she already has a stretch-limo-load of that, but to gain some real standing as a talent in the world of entertainment.
During the matinee of As You Like It at Wyndhams Theatre earlier that day, her friend and leading lady, Helen McCrory, had turned suddenly to the audience with tears in her eyes and announced that she couldn't continue. There were only 20 minutes of the play left to run and McCrory had never before missed a performance in her life, so the cast of David Lan's new production, which also stars television comics Sean Hughes as Touchstone and Reece Shearsmith as Jaques, knew that she must be feeling terribly ill.
The show was stopped and two doctors were called in to convince McCrory that she could not go on later that night. Lan and his company were at a loss as to what to do. It was two nights after the opening of the play and none of the official understudies, who all have other parts in the show, was up to speed with the demanding 721 lines given to Shakespeare's leading leading lady, the witty and passionate Rosalind. It is a role traditionally seen as the ultimate test of an actress's range. Dame Peggy Ashcroft played Rosalind at the Old Vic in 1932 to great acclaim and performances by Dame Edith Evans in 1936, by Vanessa Redgrave in 1961 and by Helen Mirren on television in 1978 have each gone down in the annals of theatrical triumphs.
In the early evening, Lan received a simple text message from Miller which read: 'I know Rosalind's part if you need me to do it x'. Within the hour, she was preparing for the challenge of her young life, all the more remarkable as she was still recovering from the impact of her professional theatrical debut two nights previously in the part of Rosalind's bosom buddy and cousin, the sensible and aristocratic Celia.
Miller had told guests at a party last week that she hoped taking on a Shakespearean role, even a supporting one, would earn her some credit as a serious actress. Entwined with her fiance, Jude Law, at the Mint Leaf restaurant on Haymarket, she confided she felt she had to work harder because she is a celebrity girlfriend, but that 'hopefully Shakespeare is the way to prove myself'. Miller did not realise how quickly the test was to escalate.
'She was fantastic. Sienna only needed a couple of prompts throughout the whole thing,' said a spokeswoman for the show. 'The director said he certainly did not have all the lines in his head, although he knows the play inside out.'
Shearsmith's character, the nihilistic grump Jaques, has the most famous lines in As You Like It. In Act II Scene VII he proclaims: 'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.' Certainly, the lines must have had a peculiar resonance for audience and cast on Thursday night. Not only was Celia playing Rosalind playing a young man called Ganymede pretending to be Rosalind, but Denise Gough, the actress originally cast in the role of the petulant young lover, Phoebe, was playing Celia while Rebecca Jenkins, who will normally play the role of Touchstone's bride, Audrey, was in the part of Phoebe for the night. To complicate things further, after the curtain fell and Miller had graciously received her standing ovation, she told the assembled press that she had merely impersonated McCory's performance as best she could.
'I'm not completely conscious of what just happened,' she said. 'I've felt in a complete state of shock and in a way I still am. I just attempted to imitate Helen McCrory.'
In the audience for the second night running was her proud mother, Josephine, herself a former model, and Law, who made it in time from a work commitment to see the second half of what the director dubbed 'a collective performance'.
Lan and Law are close associates and co-campaigners for the redevelopment of the Young Vic Theatre at Waterloo. Only the day before, McCrory had joined Law at a topping-out ceremony for the new building which will be under Lan's artistic control. The actress is also friends with Miller since they worked together on a new film version of Casanova, in which McCrory plays the philanderer's mother and Miller plays an ice maiden who wins his heart.
So, all in all, Miller's leap to centre stage is not quite as dramatic as it might have been for any other ingenue of her age. When the understudy Laura Michelle Kelly stepped up to the role of Eliza Doolittle in the National Theatre's production of My Fair Lady, her life was transformed. Her startling performance as Martine McCutcheon's last-minute stand-in secured her career and lined the path to her starring role in Mary Poppins.
Miller, in contrast, is hardly blinking in the spotlight. She was a jetsetter even before she met Law. Daughter of former New York banker Ed Miller, who is a neighbour of Mick Jagger's in Manhattan, her mother is a friend of David Bowie and, as a girl, she spent summer holidays in the South of France in the holiday home of Elton John.
Her parents split up when she was five and her elder sister, Savannah, was seven. Although born in New York, she grew up in Chelsea, London, and went to school in Salisbury before going on to the £20,000-a-year Heathfield school in Ascot, where she was known as 'Squit' due to her petite frame. Her father remarried celebrity interior designer Kelly Hoppen, to whom Miller is still close, although that marriage has also ended. (Hoppen now dates England footballer Sol Campbell.)
At 16, Sienna was spotted on a London street by Tandy Anderson of the Select model agency. Her early photographic work includes saucy images which, due to assiduous work by Miller's current publicists, the red-top press are finding increasingly hard to find and reproduce. It is known, however, that she once sat topless astride a horse as the Pirelli calendar's Miss September. At the age of 18, she returned to New York to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute and got a small part in the American television cop show, Keen Eddie.
Much of the flurry of tittle-tattle surrounding Miller has centred on her trademark 'boho chic' and the scandalous suggestion that she stole this retro-hippy look from Kate Moss. Rancour between the two beauties is said to have been exacerbated by the fact that Moss is a close friend of actress and designer Sadie Frost, Law's ex-wife and the mother of his three children, Rafferty, Iris and Rudy. Indiscreet friends of Miller are said to have confided that she is still terrified of those twin horticultural blights, Frost and Moss, but that she is on good terms with Law's children. This time last year, the press were treated to an accidentally-on-purpose 'chance encounter' between Law's ex-wife and Miller in the crowds at Glastonbury. Naturally, they hugged and smiled.
Law and Miller first met on the set of the remake of Alfie, a film that has not fared as well as their relationship. She was already an 'It Girl', having starred in Matthew Vaughn's directorial debut, Layer Cake, opposite Daniel Craig, and enjoyed a fling with actor Orlando Bloom, as well being photographed dancing the night away with the Princess Royal's son, Peter Phillips.
Law appears to have been smitten from the moment Miller blushingly informing the star it was an honour to work with him. He commented later to the press: 'It blew me away when I first saw her on camera. I just hadn't seen anything like it. She is extraordinary.'
Critics' reactions to Miller's undeniably charming and confident debut as Celia were good, though varied in enthusiasm. In the Daily Express, Sheridan Morley felt she was the 'real discovery' of the production. 'Forget all the "fiancee of Jude Law" hype; what she gives here is a London stage debut of breathtaking assurance, making Celia no longer just the sidekick to Rosalind but a character in her own feisty right,' he wrote, while Charles Spencer in the Daily Telegraph was less excited. 'If she were in a school show, rather than the West End, you would think her well above average,' he judged.
In the end, it may not matter whether Miller distinguishes herself in the West End. After all, she has already rather mysteriously appeared in this year's coveted Vanity Fair Hollywood A-listers photo and so there can be little fear she will be grubbing for work. Rather, the actress is likely to be considering the meaning of a well-known line from Act IV of As You Like It. 'Can one desire too much of a good thing?' The answer, of course, is 'probably not'.
Sienna Miller
DoB: 28 December 1981 (New York)
Family: Mother Josephine and father Ed are divorced. One sister, Savannah
Education: Heathfield School, Ascot. Lee Strasberg Institute, New York Filmography: Played Nikki in Alfie and Tammy in Layer Cake [/font]
What a trouper
[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]She is famous for being Jude Law's fiancee but emergency casting as Rosalind, Shakespeare's leading leading lady, may transform the actress's It Girl image[/font]
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Vanessa Thorpe
Sunday June 26, 2005
The Observer
[/font][font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Thursday night was so sultry in the West End that it would have put anyone off taking their seat in the auditorium of a theatre, let alone tackling Shakespeare's longest female part on stage for the first time at short notice. But for Sienna Miller, the 23-year-old actress and model who has been traded like pork belly on the celebrity market for about three years now, a lot was at stake. This was her golden chance to win not fame, for she already has a stretch-limo-load of that, but to gain some real standing as a talent in the world of entertainment.
During the matinee of As You Like It at Wyndhams Theatre earlier that day, her friend and leading lady, Helen McCrory, had turned suddenly to the audience with tears in her eyes and announced that she couldn't continue. There were only 20 minutes of the play left to run and McCrory had never before missed a performance in her life, so the cast of David Lan's new production, which also stars television comics Sean Hughes as Touchstone and Reece Shearsmith as Jaques, knew that she must be feeling terribly ill.
The show was stopped and two doctors were called in to convince McCrory that she could not go on later that night. Lan and his company were at a loss as to what to do. It was two nights after the opening of the play and none of the official understudies, who all have other parts in the show, was up to speed with the demanding 721 lines given to Shakespeare's leading leading lady, the witty and passionate Rosalind. It is a role traditionally seen as the ultimate test of an actress's range. Dame Peggy Ashcroft played Rosalind at the Old Vic in 1932 to great acclaim and performances by Dame Edith Evans in 1936, by Vanessa Redgrave in 1961 and by Helen Mirren on television in 1978 have each gone down in the annals of theatrical triumphs.
In the early evening, Lan received a simple text message from Miller which read: 'I know Rosalind's part if you need me to do it x'. Within the hour, she was preparing for the challenge of her young life, all the more remarkable as she was still recovering from the impact of her professional theatrical debut two nights previously in the part of Rosalind's bosom buddy and cousin, the sensible and aristocratic Celia.
Miller had told guests at a party last week that she hoped taking on a Shakespearean role, even a supporting one, would earn her some credit as a serious actress. Entwined with her fiance, Jude Law, at the Mint Leaf restaurant on Haymarket, she confided she felt she had to work harder because she is a celebrity girlfriend, but that 'hopefully Shakespeare is the way to prove myself'. Miller did not realise how quickly the test was to escalate.
'She was fantastic. Sienna only needed a couple of prompts throughout the whole thing,' said a spokeswoman for the show. 'The director said he certainly did not have all the lines in his head, although he knows the play inside out.'
Shearsmith's character, the nihilistic grump Jaques, has the most famous lines in As You Like It. In Act II Scene VII he proclaims: 'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.' Certainly, the lines must have had a peculiar resonance for audience and cast on Thursday night. Not only was Celia playing Rosalind playing a young man called Ganymede pretending to be Rosalind, but Denise Gough, the actress originally cast in the role of the petulant young lover, Phoebe, was playing Celia while Rebecca Jenkins, who will normally play the role of Touchstone's bride, Audrey, was in the part of Phoebe for the night. To complicate things further, after the curtain fell and Miller had graciously received her standing ovation, she told the assembled press that she had merely impersonated McCory's performance as best she could.
'I'm not completely conscious of what just happened,' she said. 'I've felt in a complete state of shock and in a way I still am. I just attempted to imitate Helen McCrory.'
In the audience for the second night running was her proud mother, Josephine, herself a former model, and Law, who made it in time from a work commitment to see the second half of what the director dubbed 'a collective performance'.
Lan and Law are close associates and co-campaigners for the redevelopment of the Young Vic Theatre at Waterloo. Only the day before, McCrory had joined Law at a topping-out ceremony for the new building which will be under Lan's artistic control. The actress is also friends with Miller since they worked together on a new film version of Casanova, in which McCrory plays the philanderer's mother and Miller plays an ice maiden who wins his heart.
So, all in all, Miller's leap to centre stage is not quite as dramatic as it might have been for any other ingenue of her age. When the understudy Laura Michelle Kelly stepped up to the role of Eliza Doolittle in the National Theatre's production of My Fair Lady, her life was transformed. Her startling performance as Martine McCutcheon's last-minute stand-in secured her career and lined the path to her starring role in Mary Poppins.
Miller, in contrast, is hardly blinking in the spotlight. She was a jetsetter even before she met Law. Daughter of former New York banker Ed Miller, who is a neighbour of Mick Jagger's in Manhattan, her mother is a friend of David Bowie and, as a girl, she spent summer holidays in the South of France in the holiday home of Elton John.
Her parents split up when she was five and her elder sister, Savannah, was seven. Although born in New York, she grew up in Chelsea, London, and went to school in Salisbury before going on to the £20,000-a-year Heathfield school in Ascot, where she was known as 'Squit' due to her petite frame. Her father remarried celebrity interior designer Kelly Hoppen, to whom Miller is still close, although that marriage has also ended. (Hoppen now dates England footballer Sol Campbell.)
At 16, Sienna was spotted on a London street by Tandy Anderson of the Select model agency. Her early photographic work includes saucy images which, due to assiduous work by Miller's current publicists, the red-top press are finding increasingly hard to find and reproduce. It is known, however, that she once sat topless astride a horse as the Pirelli calendar's Miss September. At the age of 18, she returned to New York to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute and got a small part in the American television cop show, Keen Eddie.
Much of the flurry of tittle-tattle surrounding Miller has centred on her trademark 'boho chic' and the scandalous suggestion that she stole this retro-hippy look from Kate Moss. Rancour between the two beauties is said to have been exacerbated by the fact that Moss is a close friend of actress and designer Sadie Frost, Law's ex-wife and the mother of his three children, Rafferty, Iris and Rudy. Indiscreet friends of Miller are said to have confided that she is still terrified of those twin horticultural blights, Frost and Moss, but that she is on good terms with Law's children. This time last year, the press were treated to an accidentally-on-purpose 'chance encounter' between Law's ex-wife and Miller in the crowds at Glastonbury. Naturally, they hugged and smiled.
Law and Miller first met on the set of the remake of Alfie, a film that has not fared as well as their relationship. She was already an 'It Girl', having starred in Matthew Vaughn's directorial debut, Layer Cake, opposite Daniel Craig, and enjoyed a fling with actor Orlando Bloom, as well being photographed dancing the night away with the Princess Royal's son, Peter Phillips.
Law appears to have been smitten from the moment Miller blushingly informing the star it was an honour to work with him. He commented later to the press: 'It blew me away when I first saw her on camera. I just hadn't seen anything like it. She is extraordinary.'
Critics' reactions to Miller's undeniably charming and confident debut as Celia were good, though varied in enthusiasm. In the Daily Express, Sheridan Morley felt she was the 'real discovery' of the production. 'Forget all the "fiancee of Jude Law" hype; what she gives here is a London stage debut of breathtaking assurance, making Celia no longer just the sidekick to Rosalind but a character in her own feisty right,' he wrote, while Charles Spencer in the Daily Telegraph was less excited. 'If she were in a school show, rather than the West End, you would think her well above average,' he judged.
In the end, it may not matter whether Miller distinguishes herself in the West End. After all, she has already rather mysteriously appeared in this year's coveted Vanity Fair Hollywood A-listers photo and so there can be little fear she will be grubbing for work. Rather, the actress is likely to be considering the meaning of a well-known line from Act IV of As You Like It. 'Can one desire too much of a good thing?' The answer, of course, is 'probably not'.
Sienna Miller
DoB: 28 December 1981 (New York)
Family: Mother Josephine and father Ed are divorced. One sister, Savannah
Education: Heathfield School, Ascot. Lee Strasberg Institute, New York Filmography: Played Nikki in Alfie and Tammy in Layer Cake [/font]
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^^ wow long!! thanx for posting 
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yes, I never got the Tom Cruise thing. I liked him in Maguire but esp now, he is completely unattractive.
Any new pics of Sienna?
Any new pics of Sienna?
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omg i hate his hairstyle (heh, is it at least a hairstyle?!) !
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^ I'm hoping he comes to his senses soon.
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