A sizzling Sienna Miller on Broadway starring in 'After Miss Julie'
Sunday, September 20th 2009, 4:00 AM
The subject of a real-life love triangle last summer, Sienna Miller is now starring in one on the Great White Way.
Making her Broadway debut in the title role of August Strindberg's "After Miss Julie," Miller left theatergoers lusting for more.
"Tonight was her first time, and that's absolutely amazing," said Ruth Pferdehirt, 23, an actress and restaurant worker from Astoria, Queens, who saw Friday night's preview. "She's pretty fearless. She really embodies the role."
In an update of the 1888 class-and-sex drama, Miller stars as a young woman who seduces her wealthy father's chauffeur - who is planning to marry another woman.
The beautiful 27-year-old blond is no stranger to sex scandals.
Photographs last summer captured her kissing married actor Balthazar Getty on a boat off Italy's Amalfi coast. Getty's wife had recently given birth to the youngest of their four children.
Miller's relationship to "Alfie" co-star Jude Law ended on a sour note after he was caught cheating on her with his kids' nanny.
Law began preview performances a week ago in the Broadway production of "Hamlet" and was photographed strolling around the West Village with fellow British actor Jonny Lee Miller - who plays the chauffeur Sienna Miller's character pursues in "After Miss Julie."
Miller's past hasn't turned off theatergoers; if anything, it's added to her allure in the Roundabout Theatre Company production. She spent much of the 90-minute play strutting across the set - a kitchen in the home in the English countryside - in heels. The exception was when she was forced to sneak barefoot across a room after one steamy scene.
The audience at the American Airlines Theatre laughed when her character declared herself "innocent" and asked her lover to kiss her shoe.
"Her body language, just the way she moved, she was totally in character," noted Allyn Rosalez, 31, a Fashion Institute of Technology student from the upper West Side. "She did amazing."
Born in New York and raised in England, Miller is best known for her roles in films that include "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," "Alfie," and "Factory Girl." She did some theater work in New York early in her career and made her professional stage debut in 2005 in a London production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It." She seemed comfortable on the Roundabout stage.
"The nature of bringing a movie star to Broadway is on the fact that they're a big name, but she actually delivers," said Michael Holmes, 37, a graphic designer from Queens. "It's nice to see a star on Broadway that can actually do it."
Fans waited 40 minutes after the play for Miller to exit the backstage door. She didn't disappoint, smiling as she graciously signed autographs.
"We just got our programs signed," said Elizabeth Frankini, 19, a Manhattan acting student. "She's very, very friendly. She looked you in the eye."
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