Ahna O'Reilly

Ahna O'Reilly is an American actress. She is best known for her role in the film The Help (2011).

Ahna O'Reilly
O'Reilly in 2016
Born	Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2003–present
Spouse	Dave Andron (m. 2020)

Career

O'Reilly began her acting career in 2003 in the film, Bill the Intern. She has appeared in several other movies like Dinocroc, Nancy Drew, Just Add Water and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She also acted in television series like CSI: NY, Unhitched, The Vampire Diaries and Prime Suspect.

In 2011, she appeared in the movie The Help based on Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel of the same name, a period piece set in Jackson, Mississippi, in the 1960s.^[1] The film opened to positive reviews and became a box-office success with a worldwide gross of $211,608,112.^[2] It also won several ensemble awards including National Board of Review Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Satellite Award. O'Reilly co-starred in the 2013 film Jobs, alongside Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad, about the life of technology pioneer Steve Jobs.^[3]

In 2016, she appeared in the Roundabout Theatre Company off-Broadway production of The Robber Bridegroom.^[4] A cast recording featuring O'Reilly in her role as Rosamund was released on September 9, 2016.^[5]

In 2017, O’Reilly starred as Sarah Foster in the film Sleepwalker.

Personal life

O'Reilly graduated from Menlo School in 2003 and attended the University of Southern California for one year before dropping out.^[6] She dated actor James Franco for a time before the two broke up in 2011.^[7][8] In December 2021 O'Reilly announced via Instagram that she married writer and producer Dave Andron a year earlier, in secret.^[9][10]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Bill the Intern	Actress
2004	Dinocroc	Beach-Goer
2007	Succubus: Hell-Bent	Bikini Babe
2007	Good Time Max	Girl Jumping on Bed
2007	Nancy Drew	'No' Woman
2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall	Leslie
2008	Just Add Water	Tammy
2009	The Harsh Life of Veronica Lambert	Maya	also known as 5 Nights in Hollywood
2009	Herpes Boy	Christeee
2010	House Under Siege	Lana
2011	0s & 1s	Caitlin
2011	Girls! Girls! Girls!	N/A
2011	The Help	Elizabeth Leefolt	Black Film Critics Circle Award for Best Ensemble Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Hollywood Film Festival Award for Ensemble of the Year National Board of Review Award for Best Cast Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble Women Film Critics Circle Award for Best Ensemble Nominated — Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Nominated — San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble Nominated — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble
2011	From the Head	Lily
2012	I Am Ben	Max
2012	The Time Being	Olivia
2013	Miss Dial	Concerned Pet Owner
2013	CBGB	Mary Harron
2013	The Big Ask	Zoe
2013	Fruitvale Station	Katie
2013	Jobs	Chrisann Brennan
2013	As I Lay Dying	Dewey Dell Bundren
2013	Lucky Them	Charlotte
2014	Get on Up	Reporter
2014	The Sound and the Fury	Caddy Compson
2015	She's Funny That Way	Former Prostitute
2015	No Way Jose	Dusty Morrison
2016	Elvis & Nixon	Mary Anne Peterson
2016	In Dubious Battle	Edith "Edie" Malone
2016	All I See Is You	Carla
2017	Marshall	Mrs. Richmond
2017	Sleepwalker	Sarah
2017	Big Bear	Jess
2017	Totem	Robin
2018	Spivak	Tammy Gordon
2019	Our Friend	Gale
2019	Bombshell	Julie Roginsky
2022	Where the Crawdads Sing	Ma

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	CSI: NY	Halie	Episode: "Happily Never After"
2008	Unhitched	Blind Hostess	Episode: "Conjoined Twins Pitch No-Hitter"
2011	The Vampire Diaries	Jessica Cohen	Episode: "The Descent"
2011	Prime Suspect	Emma	Episode: "Shame"
2013	Call Me Crazy: A Five Film	Bethany	Television film
2014	How I Met Your Mother	Kelly	Episode: "How Your Mother Met Me"
2017	Kingdom	Amy	4 episodes
2018	Reverie	Rachel Kauffman	Episode: "Bond. Jane Bond."
2019	The Morning Show	Ashley Brown	2 episodes
2019	Bull	Erin Flemming	Episode: "Imminent Danger"

References

1. . Archived from the original on 2011-10-30. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
2. "Box Office Mojo - Movie Index, A-Z". www.boxofficemojo.com.
3. "Ahna O'Reilly Cast As Female Lead In Steve Jobs Biopic". CINEMABLEND. 28 May 2012.
4. . Archived from the original on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
5. "The Robber Bridegroom - 2016 Off-Broadway Cast" – via castalbums.org.
6. . Palo Alto Online. Archived from the original on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
7. Dinh, Mai; Janet Murphy. "James Franco Biography". People.
8. Freydkin, Donna (August 3, 2008). "'Pineapple' star Franco digs deep, plays stoner and serious". USA Today. Retrieved April 22, 2009.
9. "Celebrity Couples Who Got Married in Secret". Us Weekly. May 7, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
10. Semon, Sam Joseph (December 29, 2021). "Ahna O'Reilly secretly married husband Dave Andron A YEAR AGO". MSN.

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