Background
Rylance was born as Juliet van Kampen in Hammersmith, London, England, to architect Chris van Kampen and composer Claire van Kampen. Her parents divorced when she was seven, and her mother subsequentely married actor Mark Rylance.
Rylance was born as Juliet van Kampen in Hammersmith, London, England, to architect Chris van Kampen and composer Claire van Kampen. Her parents divorced when she was seven, and her mother subsequentely married actor Mark Rylance.
Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist
She had a younger sister, Nataasha, who became a filmmaker. She was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. 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 United Kingdom 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. 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.
In 2012, Rylance co-starred in the horror film Sinister.
Since 2014, Rylance has starred in the Cinemax medical drama The Knick.