ROMOLA GARAI (Siobhán)

A rising young star from the U.K., Romola Garai last starred in another Focus Features release, Mira Nair's Vanity Fair, opposite Reese Witherspoon.

Cited in 2003 as one of Daily Variety's "10 Actors to Watch," Ms. Garai has starred in several notable adaptations of classic novels. Prior to Vanity Fair, she headed the cast of Tim Fywell's I Capture the Castle (from the Dodie Smith book) and was a member of the ensemble cast of Douglas McGrath's Nicholas Nickleby (from the Charles Dickens book). Tom Hooper's BBC miniseries Daniel Deronda (from the George Eliot book), in which she had the female lead role, recently aired in the U.S. on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre.

Ms. Garai's other U.K. television credits include the series Attachments and John Strickland's miniseries Perfect. Her other film credits include Gillies Mackinnon's HBO feature The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (in which she played the younger incarnation of Dame Judi Dench's character) and Guy Ferland's Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.

She recently starred on the London stage as James Joyce's daughter Lucia in Calico, Michael Hastings' play directed by Edward Hall.