Sienna Miller's Real Name: Sienna Rose Miller

Quick answer: Sienna Miller's full name is Sienna Rose Miller. She was born on December 28, 1981, in New York City, and her family moved to London when she was 18 months old. She is sometimes credited as "Sienna Rose Miller" or "Sienna Rose." She broke through in Alfie (2004) and later played Tippi Hedren in The Girl and Taya Kyle in American Sniper (Library of Congress; Golden Globes).

Real name and early life

The Library of Congress name authority files her as "Miller, Sienna, 1981-." It lists the variants "Miller, Sienna Rose, 1981-" and "Rose, Sienna, 1981-." One LOC citation reads "Sienna Miller, b. 28 December 1981; actress; sometimes credited as Sienna Rose Miller, Sienna Rose." Another says she was born Sienna Rose Miller in New York City. The Golden Globes' official profile also opens with "Sienna Rose Miller (born in New York City, December 28, 1981)." Some online references add a further middle name, Diana. Neither LOC nor the Golden Globes records it, so this page uses the documented form.

British Vogue says her mother, Josephine, is a South African former model and her father is American. Vogue also says her mother once ran the Lee Strasberg Institute in London. Miller grew up around theater and wanted to act from a young age. She attended Heathfield School, a boarding school in Berkshire, and then returned to New York to study for a year at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute.

Career highlights

Miller had an early lead in the short-lived U.S. series Keen Eddie. She became famous while filming Alfie with Jude Law, to whom she was later engaged. She told Vogue in 2007, "Everything just happened in the wrong order," because the celebrity attention came before her films were out. Vogue calls her a style icon who made eight Vogue covers. With her sister Savannah she designed the fashion line Twenty8Twelve.

On screen, the Golden Globes list Casanova (2005) with Heath Ledger and Factory Girl (2006), in which she played Edie Sedgwick. They also list The Edge of Love (2008) with Keira Knightley. She played Tippi Hedren in the TV film The Girl (2012), which brought a Golden Globe nomination for best actress in a limited series or TV movie. She then played Taya Kyle opposite Bradley Cooper in Clint Eastwood's American Sniper (2014) and reunited with Cooper in Burnt (2015). Later roles include High-Rise (2015) with Tom Hiddleston, Ben Affleck's Live by Night (2016), and 21 Bridges (2019).

Name notes for searchers

Rose is her middle name, and Miller is her family surname. "Sienna Rose" appears in some early credits, and LOC records it. Although born in New York, she grew up in England, and British Vogue calls her a British actress.