Juliet Rylance

Juliet Rylance
Rylance at the 74th Annual Peabody Awards
Born	Juliet van Kampen (1979-07-26) 26 July 1979 (age 37) London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2003–present
Spouse(s)	Christian Camargo (m. 2008)
Website	http://www.julietrylance.com

Juliet Rylance (born Juliet van Kampen; 26 July 1979) is an English actress and producer, known for Days and Nights.

Rylance was born as Juliet van Kampen in Hammersmith, London to Claire van Kampen, a composer, and Chris van Kampen, an architect. Her younger sister, Nataasha (now deceased), became a filmmaker.

Her parents divorced when she was seven, and her mother subsequently married actor Mark Rylance. She was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Her first major role upon leaving RADA was as Medea in Neil LaBute's Bash: Latter-Day Plays at the Union Theatre in London. She then went on to play Perdita in The Winter's Tale and Cressida in Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. She portrayed British writer Mary Sidney in I Am Shakespeare, written by her step-father Mark Rylance and directed by Matthew Warchus at the Chichester Festival Theatre and its UK tour. That same year, along with two of her contemporaries, David Sturzaker and director Tamara Harvey, she started her own production company, Theater of Memory. She subsequently starred in the Theater of Memory's productions of Romeo and Juliet and Bash: Latter-Day Plays, portraying Juliet and Medea respectively.

In 2009, Rylance played Desdemona at the theater in New York City, in Othello, for which she was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award. She next appeared in the Sam Mendes-directed Bridge Project, a joint venture between the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn and The Old Vic in London. She appeared as Rosalind and Miranda, respectively, with her husband appearing alongside her as Orlando and Ariel. Rylance was awarded a 2010 Obie Award for her performance as Rosalind.