Leila George

Actress

Birthday March 20, 1992

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Age 31 years old

Nationality Sydney

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1991

Leila George D'Onofrio (born c. 1991/1992) is an Australian actress.

George was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, to actor and producer Vincent D'Onofrio and actress Greta Scacchi, and raised by her mother in Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom She has three younger half-brothers.

2008

In 2008, she took acting classes at Brighton College.

2010

The following year, she attended Crawley College, her mother's alma mater, and in 2010, studied at the Arts Educational Schools, London.

2011

In 2011, she went to Australia to study at Sydney Film School.

2012

In 2012, she went to the United States to study at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City near her father.

2013

In 2013, George worked on the documentary The Last Impresario as an additional camera operator.

2014

In 2014, she starred with her mother in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull for Black Swan Theatre Company in Perth.

Her mother acted as Arkadina, and she acted as Nina, Arkadina's romantic rival.

2016

In 2016, she played the starring role in Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?, her first feature television film.

George began a relationship with actor Sean Penn in 2016.

2018

She was featured in the films Mortal Engines (2018) and The Kid (2019).

2019

In 2019, George began playing the younger version of Ellen Barkin's character, Janine "Smurf" Cody, in the television series Animal Kingdom.

Following the 2019–20 Australian bushfires, she co-produced a celebrity fundraiser to support long-term conservation of areas affected by the bushfires; the event was hosted by the Los Angeles Zoo.

2020

They married on 30 July 2020.

George filed for divorce on 15 October 2021.

The divorce was finalized on 22 April 2022.