Actor / Director Profile

Sienna was born in New York but raised in England. Her father, Ed, was from Pennsylvania, USA. He was an investment banker, then a Chinese art dealer, joined a cult and wrote a spiritual self-help book. Her mother, Josephine, is from South Africa. She was a model and a personal assistant to David Bowie. She went on to run the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, and then became a yoga instructor. Sienna has one older sister, Savannah.The family moved to Chelsea, London, when Sienna was 18-months-old. Sienna spent her weekends horse riding at her godmother's farmhouse in Wiltshire. When Sienna was age 6, her parents got divorced. Sienna and Savannah moved to Parsons Green with their mother, who was also being treated for breast cancer. Sienna's father remarried three times. He moved to the Virgin Islands.At age 8, she moved away to Heathfield boarding school in Ascot, where she enjoyed playing Lacrosse and acting. She went back to New York, when she turned 18, and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Following this, she traveled, modeled, did theater and took bit parts in films. She landed a role as a flirtatious model in a BBC sitcom, "Bedtime" (2001). In 2004, she landed a role in Layer Cake (2004). She followed this with Alfie (2004).