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Sienna Rose Diana Miller, born December 28th, 1981, is a captivating American-British actress. Her journey began in the vibrant streets of New York City before she was raised in the iconic city of London. Initially, she graced the pages of Italian Vogue and the prestigious 2003 Pirelli Calendar as a model. But it was in 2004, with her standout roles in "Layer Cake" and "Alfie," that her acting talent truly took flight.
She embodied the spirit of socialite Edie Sedgwick in "Factory Girl" in 2006, and later the poignant author Caitlin Macnamara in "The Edge of Love" in 2008, earning a BAFTA Rising Star nomination that same year. Her turn as The Baroness in "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" in 2009 was followed by a much-needed respite from the intense glare of the tabloids.
Miller made a triumphant return to the spotlight in 2012, portraying actress Tippi Hedren in the acclaimed television film "The Girl." This role garnered her nominations for both the BAFTA Television Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Since then, she has graced the silver screen in memorable films such as "Foxcatcher" and "American Sniper" in 2014, "The Lost City of Z" and "Live by Night" in 2016, and "American Woman" in 2018. Her television presence has also been strong, with notable roles in the miniseries "The Loudest Voice" in 2019 and "Anatomy of a Scandal" in 2022.
Born in New York City during a performance of "The Nutcracker Suite," Miller moved to London at just 18 months old. She attended the Heathfield School in Ascot, Berkshire. Her father, Edwin Miller, is an American banker and dealer in Chinese art, while her mother, Josephine, a British former model born in South Africa, once served as a personal assistant to David Bowie and managed the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.
Miller's screen debut arrived in the 2001 romantic comedy "South Kensington," alongside Rupert Everett and Elle Macpherson. The following year, she appeared in "High Speed" and its sequel, "The Ride," and guest-starred in "The American Embassy" and "Bedtime." In 2003, she secured a regular role as a spirited flatmate to an NYPD detective in the television drama "Keen Eddie," marking her first introduction to American audiences before the show's early cancellation.
2004 proved to be a pivotal year. Alongside two commercial film roles, her public profile soared, partly due to her relationship with actor Jude Law. In the crime thriller "Layer Cake," directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Daniel Craig, she played the love interest of a London cocaine supplier. The New York Times noted Miller as "a new It Girl who barely registers on-screen despite wearing little more than lacey filaments that make her look like a gift meant to be unwrapped very quickly." In the remake of "Alfie," she played the girlfriend of a cockney limo driver and sex addict, portrayed by Jude Law. Reflecting on her "It Girl" status at the time, she admitted, "I'm not very happy about it, to be honest. It makes me uncomfortable because I don't think it's as a result of having a film come out, [but] being scrutinised because of the relationship I'm in."
In the 2005 period dramedy "Casanova," Miller portrayed a writer of feminist books and the love interest of Giacomo Casanova, played by Heath Ledger. The film garnered $37.6 million, and Entertainment Weekly praised her "modern, smart-girl look," describing her character as "neither too tough to melt nor too glittering from the Emma Thompson school of smarties." That same year, she made her West End debut in a revival of "As You Like It" at the Wyndhams Theatre, receiving mixed reviews. Paul Taylor of The Independent remarked, "She approaches an emotion with the finesse of someone beating a carpet" and stated she "brings to it all the ripe professional stage experience that can be mustered from appearing in three movies."
Miller took on the iconic role of 1960s socialite and Andy Warhol's muse, Edie Sedgwick, in the 2006 biographical drama "Factory Girl." Johnny Vaughan of Sun Online declared, "[i]t's Sienna Miller's star that shines brightest in this heartbreaking cautionary tale," though Rotten Tomatoes' consensus noted, "Despite a dedicated performance by Sienna Miller, Factory Girl delves only superficially into her character, and ultimately fails to tell a coherent story." In 2007, she appeared as the love interest of a young man in Matthew Vaughn's adaptation of "Stardust," and played a starlet in Steve Buscemi's "Interview," a remake of a Dutch film. "Stardust," budgeted at $65 million, grossed $137 million worldwide, while critics lauded Buscemi and Miller's "captivating performances" in "Interview," making "a seemingly simple premise gripping and entertaining."
In "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" (2008), an adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel, Miller played a woman romantically involved with a bisexual man. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received a limited release. Her remarks about Pittsburgh, calling it "Shitsburgh" in a 2006 Rolling Stone interview, caused a stir, leading to apologies and criticism for her seemingly disparaging comments, especially considering the city's hospitality. Miller explained her remarks were taken out of context.
In the 2008 British biographical drama "The Edge of Love," Miller starred alongside Keira Knightley as Caitlin Macnamara, the wife of poet Dylan Thomas. Despite mixed reviews, The Hollywood Reporter's Ray Bennett called it a "wonderfully atmospheric tale of love and war," noting that "the film belongs to the women, with Knightley going from strength to strength (and showing she can sing!) and Miller again proving that she has everything it takes to be a major movie star." Miller earned a BIFA nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. She also lent her voice to a circus fox in the animated film "A Fox's Tale" (2008) and played an undead newlywed in the romantic comedy "Camille."
Miller took on the role of The Baroness in the live-action film adaptation of the "G.I. Joe" franchise, "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" (2009). This marked her first—and to date, only—mainstream Hollywood blockbuster. She auditioned for the part, seeking a role that was "really great fun and that people went to see and actually just had a great time seeing." During filming, she sprained her wrist after slipping on a rubber bullet. While "G.I. Joe" received mixed reviews, it achieved a worldwide gross of $302.5 million. In 2009, she also appeared on the British motorsport show "Top Gear," setting a lap time of 1:49.8 in the "star in a reasonably priced car" segment, having passed her driving test only five days prior.
The Irish Independent observed that "G.I. Joe" represented "its lowest ebb" for Miller's professional trajectory, an experience that "convinced her she had well and truly lost her way." In an interview with UK's Esquire magazine, she expressed that roles had dried up because "people don't want to see films with people they don't approve of in them." She opted for a two-year hiatus from films, choosing to focus on theater instead, stating, "I was sick of myself, to be honest, or sick of that perception of me. It all felt so fucking dirt."
In 2009, Miller starred in the title role of Patrick Marber's "After Miss Julie" on Broadway, a lifelong dream she shared with The New York Times: "This is what I have always wanted, to be on Broadway. I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point, you have to ignore all the rest." The Guardian noted her performance: "Miller masters it intermittently—an accomplishment, however incomplete." In 2011, she played a former starlet caught in a love triangle in Trevor Nunn's production of "Flare Path" at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Following her professional slump, Miller experienced what journalists termed a "career revival," taking on more complex, dramatic roles in critically acclaimed films. She remarked, "All the directors speak to each other... And once you crack that upper echelon of incredible directors, you've got people rooting for you. People who people listen to. I've never had that before."
In the 2012 HBO and BBC film "The Girl," Miller portrayed actress Tippi Hedren, director Alfred Hitchcock's muse. During filming, Miller, who was in the early stages of pregnancy, spoke with Hedren and they developed a friendship. The film recreated the harrowing attic scene from Hitchcock's "The Birds" using live birds. Miller recounted to Radio Times, "I did go through a bird attack for two hours. It pales in comparison to what [Hedren] was subjected to, but it was pretty horrible. There were men off-camera with boxes of birds, throwing seagulls and pigeons in my face." While the film received mixed reviews, Jane Simon of the Daily Mirror wrote, "[G]liding gracefully through it all (and with an impeccable American accent) Sienna Miller brings untouchable beauty and icy glamour, but also captures the extraordinary resilience Hedren must have had to withstand everything Hitchcock threw at her." Clive James, writing for The Telegraph, declared, "[a] better choice [to play Hedren] could not have been made than Sienna Miller, who is even lovelier than Hedren was." Her performance earned her nominations for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. In 2012, she also appeared in the dramedy "Two Jacks," the drama "Yellow," and the made-for-television film "Just like a Woman."
2014 saw Miller portray Nancy Schultz, wife of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz, in Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher," and Taya Renae Kyle, wife of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, in Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper." Both films received critical acclaim, with "American Sniper" becoming the highest-grossing war film of all time. In 2015, she took on roles in "Mississippi Grind," "Unfinished Business," the dystopian film "High-Rise," and the drama "Burnt," reuniting with Bradley Cooper. Her performance in "High-Rise" earned her a BIFA nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Miller also stepped into the shoes of Sally Bowles in the Broadway revival of "Cabaret" for the final six weeks of its run, receiving praise for her "cocky and steely" performance. She was also selected to be on the jury for the main competition section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Miller starred as Nina Fawcett, wife of British geographer Percy Fawcett, in the 2016 adaptation of "The Lost City of Z." The New York Times called her "wonderful" in the role, while Time described her as "luminous and astute." In Ben Affleck's 2016 period crime drama "Live by Night," she played the mistress of a gangster and the love interest of a World War I veteran. In 2017, Miller appeared in the drama "The Private Life of a Modern Woman" and took on the Tennessee Williams classic "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" in a West End production.
In 2018, Miller played Estella, girlfriend of baseball player Moe Berg, in the war film "The Catcher Was a Spy." She also starred in the drama "American Woman," portraying a single mother raising her grandson after her daughter goes missing. This role garnered Miller some of the best reviews of her career, marking her first leading role without significant co-starring actors and allowing her to delve into a character's life in "nuanced ways." Miller reflected, "These opportunities have been few and far between, and that's intrinsic to being a woman in film. I think it's quite rare; not necessarily specific to me, but at 37 years old, I'm thrilled I've had this opportunity. I've done good supporting work in fantastic films and had to work very hard to show something in smaller moments. I loved being able to have the space and time to really do everything I want to with a character."
Miller played a narcotics detective in the 2019 action film "21 Bridges," alongside Chadwick Boseman. The Guardian noted her performance, saying she was "vocally channelling Edie Falco from The Sopranos." The film was a moderate commercial success, grossing $50 million worldwide. She then took on the role of Beth Ailes, wife of television executive Roger Ailes (played by Russell Crowe), in the miniseries "The Loudest Voice" (2019). Miller found it challenging to find material for her performance beyond the script and Gabriel Sherman's book, stating in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, "There's very little footage of her that I had access to. But there were these two speeches which she gave, which were on YouTube, and another little interview, so I really kind of based my research around that, and relied on the script because there's just not a lot of information on her out there. But the interview and the speeches I found really revealing." In February 2024, she joined the short film "Marion" as an executive producer.
Before her acting career, Miller worked as a photography model, signing with Select Model Management London. She modeled for Coca-Cola, Italian Vogue, and posed for the 2003 Pirelli Calendar. She graced the covers of American, British, Australian, and Portuguese Vogue, as well as other international fashion magazines. Miller signed a two-year contract with denim label Pepe Jeans London and became an ambassador for Hugo Boss Fragrances' BOSS Orange perfume. In 2016, she was announced as the new face of Swedish fashion chain Lindex and appeared in Gucci's Cruise 2020 campaign.
In 2007, Miller, along with her sister Savannah, launched the fashion label Twenty8Twelve, named after Sienna's birthdate and financially backed by Pepe Jeans. They remained at the helm until 2012.
Miller is a Global Ambassador for the International Medical Corps, traveling with them to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti. She also worked with Global Cool on their eco-friendly campaign and is an ambassador for the UK branch of the Starlight Children's Foundation. On July 1st, 2007, she spoke at the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium.
Miller's relationship with Jude Law, following their collaboration in "Alfie," brought her and her style significant media attention in the mid-2000s. Vogue featured her on its cover in December 2004, calling her "the girl of the year." Miller became closely associated with the "boho chic" fashion style, telling Vogue she had a laid-back approach to grooming. Her shorter, bobbed hairstyle in 2007 helped define a trend. In the late 2000s, she was more recognized for her tabloid persona and fashion sense than her professional work. By 2015, the Irish Independent noted she had "precious little credibility in the industry." In a 2017 interview, she expressed feeling more focused on her career than her private life and clothes, which she found "refreshing." Miller has consistently appeared on lists of the world's most beautiful women.
On Christmas Day 2004, Miller became engaged to Jude Law, but they separated in November 2006 after Law's public apology for an affair. In 2008, she had a highly publicized affair with married actor Balthazar Getty. Law and Miller rekindled their relationship in late 2009 but split again in February 2011. From 2011 to 2015, Miller dated and was engaged to actor Tom Sturridge, with whom she has a daughter born in July 2012. Miller began dating actor Oli Green in late 2021, and they welcomed their second daughter in December 2023. She revealed in December 2025 that she is expecting her third child.
Following a High Court hearing in May 2011, Miller was awarded £100,000 in damages from News of the World after the newspaper admitted phone hacking. Giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, she described the intense intimidation she faced: "I would often find myself almost daily, I was 21, at midnight running down a dark street on my own with 10 big men chasing me. The fact that they had cameras in their hands meant that was legal. But if you take away the cameras, what have you got? You've got a pack of men chasing a woman, and obviously that's a very intimidating situation to be in." In November 2021, Miller accepted a financial settlement from News Group Newspapers over alleged phone hacking, stating, "They very nearly ruined my life. I have certainly seen how they have ruined the lives of others." She is portrayed by Georgia Jay in the 2025 ITV drama "The Hack," about the News International phone hacking scandal.
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Sienna Rose Diana Miller (born 28 December 1981) is an American-British actress. Born in New York City and raised in London, she began her career as a model, appearing in the pages of Italian Vogue and for the 2003 Pirelli Calendar. Her acting breakthrough came in the 2004 films Layer Cake and Alfie. She portrayed socialite Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl (2006) and author Caitlin Macnamara in The Edge of Love (2008), and was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2008. Her role as The Baroness in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) was followed by a brief sabbatical from the screen amid increased tabloid scrutiny.
Miller returned to prominence with her role as actress Tippi Hedren in the 2012 television film The Girl, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. She has since starred in several notable films, including Foxcatcher (2014), American Sniper (2014), The Lost City of Z (2016), Live by Night (2016), and American Woman (2018), as well as the miniseries The Loudest Voice (2019) and Anatomy of a Scandal (2022).
== Early life ==
Miller was born in New York City; her mother went into labor during a performance of The Nutcracker Suite. She moved to London with her family when she was 18 months old. Miller was a student at the Heathfield School in Ascot, Berkshire. Her father, Edwin Miller, was a banker and now is an American dealer in Chinese art. Her mother, Josephine, a British former model who was born in South Africa to British parents, was a personal assistant to David Bowie and onetime manager of the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.
== Acting career ==
=== 2001–2003: Early acting credits ===
Miller's screen debut came in the romantic comedy South Kensington (2001), opposite Rupert Everett and Elle Macpherson. In 2002, she had supporting roles in High Speed and its follow-up The Ride, and guest-starred in The American Embassy and Bedtime. She had a regular role as the combative yet caring flatmate of an NYPD detective in the television drama series Keen Eddie (2003). It was Miller's first exposure to American audiences. FOX cancelled it after only seven episodes.
=== 2004–2008: Breakthrough and tabloid notoriety ===
With roles in two commercial films and a higher public profile due to her relationship with actor Jude Law, 2004 was a turning point for Miller's career. The crime thriller Layer Cake, directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Daniel Craig, featured her as the love interest of a London-based cocaine supplier. The New York Times called Miller "a new It Girl who barely registers on-screen despite wearing little more than lacey filaments that make her look like a gift meant to be unwrapped very quickly". In Alfie, the remake of Bill Naughton's 1966 film, she played the girlfriend of a cockney limo driver and sex addict (Jude Law). Of her It Girl status, she said at the time: "I'm not very happy about it, to be honest. It makes me uncomfortable because I don't think it's as a result of having a film come out, [but] being scrutinised because of the relationship I'm in".
Miller portrayed a writer of illegal feminist books and the love interest of Giacomo Casanova (Heath Ledger) in the 2005 period dramedy Casanova. It made $37.6 million, and Entertainment Weekly, in a favorable review, wrote: "Ms. Miller has a modern, smart-girl look about her; her Francesca is neither too tough to melt nor too glittering from the Emma Thompson school of smarties". Also in 2005 she made her West End debut in a revival of As You Like It at the Wyndhams Theatre, receiving lukewarm reviews. Paul Taylor of The Independent wrote: "She approaches an emotion with the finesse of someone beating a carpet" and that she "brings to it all the ripe professional stage experience that can be mustered from appearing in three movies".
Miller took on the role of 1960s socialite and Andy Warhol's muse Edie Sedgwick in the 2006 biographical drama Factory Girl. Johnny Vaughan of Sun Online concluded, "[i]t's Sienna Miller's star that shines brightest in this heartbreaking cautionary tale", but Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus reads: "Despite a dedicated performance by Sienna Miller, Factory Girl delves only superficially into her character, and ultimately fails to tell a coherent story." In 2007, Miller had a role as the love interest of a young man from a fictional British town in Matthew Vaughn's adaptation Stardust, and played a starlet in Steve Buscemi's Interview, a remake of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh's 2003 movie of the same name. Budgeted at $65 million, Stardust grossed $137 million worldwide, while critics felt that Buscemi's and Miller's "captivating performances" in Interview made "a seemingly simple premise gripping and entertaining".
In The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2008), a film adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel, Miller played a woman romantically involved with a rebellious bisexual man. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received a limited release. She created a minor stir in Pittsburgh when, in a 2006 interview with Rolling Stone, she called the city "Shitsburgh", saying, "Can you believe this is my life? Will you pity me when you're back in your funky New York apartment and I'm still in Pittsburgh? I need to get more glamorous films and stop with my indie year." Miller was parodied in Pittsburgh media (including one article headlined "Semi-famous actress dumps on the 'Burgh") and criticised for making what was seen as an unnecessarily disparaging remark, given the special treatment the film's cast and crew had received from the visitors' bureau and other city offices. Miller apologised and said her remarks were taken out of context.
In the 2008 British biographical drama The Edge of Love, Miller appeared alongside Keira Knightley as Caitlin Macnamara, the wife of poet Dylan Thomas. Despite a mixed critical reception, The Hollywood Reporter critic Ray Bennett wrote that it was a "wonderfully atmospheric tale of love and war", and that "the film belongs to the women, with Knightley going from strength to strength (and showing she can sing!) and Miller again proving that she has everything it takes to be a major movie star." Miller earned a BIFA nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. She also voiced a circus fox in the animated film A Fox's Tale (2008) and played an undead newlywed in the romantic comedy Camille.
=== 2009–2011: Screen hiatus ===
Miller was cast as The Baroness in the live-action film adaptation of the G.I. Joe franchise G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), her first—and to date, only—mainstream Hollywood blockbuster. She auditioned because it did not involve "having a breakdown or [being] addicted to heroin or dying at the end, something that was just maybe really great fun and that people went to see and actually just had a great time seeing." She sprained her wrist after slipping on a rubber bullet while filming a fight scene with Rachel Nichols. G.I. Joe was not well received by most critics, but made $302.5 million worldwide.
She appeared on the British motorsport show Top Gear in 2009 on the segment "star in a reasonably priced car" and set a lap time of 1:49.8, having passed her driving test only five days before.
The Irish Independent observed that Miller's professional trajectory had reached "its lowest ebb" with G.I. Joe, an experience that "convinced her she had well and truly lost her way"; in an interview with UK's Esquire magazine, she said that roles dried up because "people don't want to see films with people they don't approve of in them".
She opted to take a hiatus from films for the next two years and work in theater instead. She later said, "I was sick of myself, to be honest, or sick of that perception of me. It all felt so fucking dirt".
In 2009, Miller played the title role in Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie on Broadway. She told The New York Times: "This is what I have always wanted, to be on Broadway. I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point, you have to ignore all the rest". On her performance, The Guardian stated: "Miller masters it intermittently—an accomplishment, however incomplete." She starred as a former starlet caught up in a love-triangle in Trevor Nunn's 2011 production of Flare Path at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket.
=== 2012–2017: Resurgence ===
After her professional slump, Miller experienced what journalists called a "career revival" She played more complex, dramatic parts in a series of critically acclaimed films. "All the directors speak to each other," she said in an interview. "And once you crack that upper echelon of incredible directors, you've got people rooting for you. People who people listen to. I've never had that before".
In The Girl (2012), an HBO and BBC film, Miller portrayed actress Tippi Hedren, the muse of director Alfred Hitchcock. As part of her research, Miller (who was in the early stages of pregnancy) spoke to Hedren several times during filming, and they became friends. Live birds were used for the recreation of the attic scene in Hitchcock's The Birds. Miller told the Radio Times, "I did go through a bird attack for two hours. It pales in comparison to what [Hedren] was subjected to, but it was pretty horrible. There were men off-camera with boxes of birds, throwing seagulls and pigeons in my face". The film received mixed reviews, but the Daily Mirror's Jane Simon wrote: "[G]liding gracefully through it all (and with an impeccable American accent) Sienna Miller brings untouchable beauty and icy glamour, but also captures the extraordinary resilience Hedren must have had to withstand everything Hitchcock threw at her." Writing for The Telegraph, Clive James said "[a] better choice [to play Hedren] could not have been made than Sienna Miller, who is even lovelier than Hedren was". She garnered nominations for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. In 2012, she also played a socialite in the dramedy Two Jacks, the hysterical sister of an elementary teacher in the drama Yellow, and a housewife who aspires to complete in a belly-dance competition in the made-for-television film Just like a Woman.
In 2014, Miller portrayed Nancy Schultz, the wife of murdered Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler Dave Schultz, in Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, and Taya Renae Kyle, the wife of United States Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, in Clint Eastwood's American Sniper. Both films were highly acclaimed, and American Sniper emerged as the highest-grossing war film of all time. In 2015, she took on the roles of a prostitute in the road drama Mississippi Grind, the former boss of a hard-working small business owner in the comedy Unfinished Business, a single mother in the dystopian film High-Rise, and that of a sous-chef in the drama Burnt, which reunited her with Bradley Cooper. For High-Rise, she received a BIFA nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Miller also took the role of Sally Bowles in the Broadway revival of Cabaret after Emma Stone's scheduled departure from the production and performed for the last six weeks of the show's engagement, in February and March 2015. The New York Daily News praised her "cocky and steely" performance and wrote that her approach to the role "works well in the Kander and Ebb songs 'Don't Tell Momma' and 'Perfectly Marvelous'." She was selected to be on the jury for the main competition section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Miller appeared in Paramount Pictures and Plan B Entertainment's adaptation of The Lost City of Z (2016), directed by James Gray, portraying Nina Fawcett, the wife of British geographer Percy Fawcett. The New York Times called her "wonderful" in her role, while Time described her as "luminous and astute". In Ben Affleck's period crime drama Live by Night (2016), Miller played the mistress of a notorious gangster and the love interest of a World War I veteran. In 2017, Miller starred in the drama The Private Life of a Modern Woman, which screened out of competition at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, and in a West End production of the Tennessee Williams classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, at the Apollo Theatre.
=== 2018–present ===
In 2018, Miller appeared in the war film The Catcher Was a Spy as Estella, the girlfriend of Moe Berg, a catcher for the Boston Red Sox who joined the OSS during World War II, as well as the drama American Woman, in which she portrays a single mother faced with raising her grandson after her daughter goes missing under mysterious circumstances. American Woman, which gave Miller some of the best reviews of her career, was her first role as the main character not bolstered by any other actors, and marked the first time she was able to delve into a woman character's life in "nuanced ways". Miller remarked: "These opportunities have been few and far between, and that's intrinsic to being a woman in film. I think it's quite rare; not necessarily specific to me, but at 37 years old, I'm thrilled I've had this opportunity. I've done good supporting work in fantastic films and had to work very hard to show something in smaller moments. I loved being able to have the space and time to really do everything I want to with a character".
Miller starred as a narcotics detective in the 2019 action film 21 Bridges alongside Chadwick Boseman. The Guardian wrote that she was "vocally channelling Edie Falco from The Sopranos", and with a worldwide gross of $50 million, the film was a moderate commercial success. She next took the role of Beth Ailes, the wife of television executive Roger Ailes (played by Russell Crowe), in the miniseries The Loudest Voice (2019), which aired on Showtime. Miller struggled to find material on which to base her performance aside from the script and Gabriel Sherman's book The Loudest Voice in the Room. During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, she said: "There's very little footage of her that I had access to. But there were these two speeches which she gave, which were on YouTube, and another little interview, so I really kind of based my research around that, and relied on the script because there's just not a lot of information on her out there. But the interview and the speeches I found really revealing".
In February 2024, she joined the short film Marion as an executive producer.
== Other endeavours ==
=== Modeling ===
Before her professional acting career, Miller worked as a photography model. She signed with Tandy Anderson of Select Model Management London, and modelled for Coca-Cola, Italian Vogue, and posed topless in the 2003 Pirelli Calendar. She went on to appear on the covers of Vogue's American, British, Australian and Portuguese editions, as well as other international fashion magazines such as Nylon, Marie Claire, and Porter Edit.
Miller signed a two-year contract with Madrid-based denim label Pepe Jeans London. The first ad campaign appeared on magazines in March 2006 and was shot by photographer Mikael Jansson and stylist Karl Templer. In February 2009, Hugo Boss Fragrances announced that she would be the new ambassador for their BOSS Orange women's perfume. In March 2016, she announced as the new face of Swedish fashion chain Lindex, starring in the 1970s-inspired Sienna Hearts Lindex spring campaign. Miller appeared as a guest at a Rome retro-styled dinner party in Gucci's Cruise 2020 campaign, which was directed and photographed by American film director Harmony Korine.
=== Fashion design ===
In 2007, Miller, along with her sister Savannah, a fashion designer, launched a complete fashion label. Called Twenty8Twelve, it gets its name from Miller's birthdate and is financially backed by Pepe Jeans. The sisters remained at the helm of the label until 2012, when they announced they were stepping down as co-creative directors.
=== Charity ===
Miller is the Global Ambassador for the International Medical Corps. She travelled with them to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in April 2009 and blogged about the experience. She also visited Haiti with the group after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Miller also worked alongside Global Cool during their 2007 eco-friendly campaign.
Miller is an ambassador for the UK branch of the Starlight Children's Foundation, which works with seriously ill children and their parents. On 1 July 2007, she appeared as a speaker at the Concert for Diana held at Wembley Stadium, London to celebrate the life of Princess Diana almost 10 years after her death. Proceeds from the concert went to Diana's charities as well as to charities of which her sons Princes William and Harry are patrons.
== Public image ==
Miller's relationship with Jude Law, after they starred together in the 2004 film Alfie, brought both her and her style of dress media headlines in the mid-2000s. In December 2004, Vogue featured Miller on its cover and called her "the girl of the year".
Miller has been closely associated with the style of fashion known as boho chic. She told Vogue she had a laid-back approach to grooming, including cutting her own hair. Miller has adopted other styles of dress and her shorter, bobbed hairstyle—a feature of bohemian fashion in the 1920s—helped define a trend in 2007.
In the late 2000s, Miller was better known for her tabloid persona and fashion sense than her professional work. The Irish Independent wrote in 2015 that "she was one of the most famous young actresses of her generation, but still boasted precious little credibility in the industry". In a 2017 interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, she said: "I definitely feel like I'm in a place now where people are more focused on my career than on my private life and clothes, which is refreshing. There's not the same drama around me that there was".
Miller has appeared in several magazines' lists of the world's most beautiful women. She ranked 48th, 46th, 11th, 27th, and 51st in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, respectively. She ranked 86th and 2nd in Askmen's top 99 "most desirable" women lists of 2005 and 2006. She was also 63rd in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" 2006 supplement.
== Personal life ==
=== Relationships ===
On Christmas Day 2004, Miller became engaged to her Alfie co-star Jude Law. On 18 July 2005, Law issued a public apology to Miller for having an affair with his children's nanny. After attempting to salvage their relationship, Miller and Law separated in November 2006. During their relationship, tabloids leaked news of Miller's pregnancy, which she ultimately aborted. In 2008, Miller had a highly publicised affair with married actor Balthazar Getty. She later sued two British tabloids for publishing photos of her and Getty together.
In December 2009, it was reported that Law and Miller had rekindled their relationship after starring in separate shows on Broadway in late 2009. They spent Christmas 2009 in Barbados with three of Law's children. They announced they had split again in February 2011.
From 2011 to 2015, Miller dated and became engaged to actor Tom Sturridge, with whom she has a daughter, who was born on 7 July 2012.
Miller began dating actor Oli Green in late 2021. Their daughter was born in December 2023. They were seen together at the Oasis concert in July 2025 at Wembley Stadium. On December 1, 2025, Miller revealed she is expecting her third child.
=== Phone hacking scandal ===
Following a High Court hearing in May 2011, Miller was awarded £100,000 in damages from News of the World after the newspaper admitted hacking into her phone. Later, as a core participant, she gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry in November 2011, including the following:
I would often find myself almost daily, I was 21, at midnight running down a dark street on my own with 10 big men chasing me. The fact that they had cameras in their hands meant that was legal. But if you take away the cameras, what have you got? You've got a pack of men chasing a woman, and obviously that's a very intimidating situation to be in.
In November 2021, Miller accepted a financial settlement from News Group Newspapers, publishers of The Sun, over an alleged phone hacking. Her lawyer David Sherborne told the court the payout is "tantamount" to an admission of illegal activity by The Sun. Outside the High Court on 9 December 2021, Miller said of The Sun newspaper, "They very nearly ruined my life. I have certainly seen how they have ruined the lives of others."
She is played by Georgia Jay in the 2025 ITV drama about the News International phone hacking scandal, The Hack.
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== External links ==
Sienna Miller at the Internet Broadway Database
Sienna Miller at IMDb
Sienna Miller at the TCM Movie Database
Twenty8Twelve.com Miller's fashion line website
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