In 2006 Sienna Miller, a British actress, took on the role of portraying the life of Edie Sedgwick in the movie Factory Girl. This seems like the mirror role for the real life of Sienna Miller as she was born in New York City but was then moved to London, England with her family when she was just over a year old. She is a well educated woman who even studied at the Lee Strasburg Institute (back in New York City) for a year.

It almost seems like the only person who could have played the role of Edie Sedgwick, from both a physical attributes standpoint as well as acting capabilities, was Sienna Miller. She pulled the role off spectacularly well and even nailed the overall performance and not just the details of being able to act.

In Factory Girl, Sienna’s character is an heiress who is studying art in Massachusetts. From here she moves to New York and is introduced to many new things, the most memorable of which is Andy Warhol. Through the intervening years, her popularity grows and becomes more solidified in the modeling industry until she suffers burns and is no longer able to model. In the end her addictions to various drugs are her complete downfall and she dies from an overdose only four months after marrying someone she has met through the drug rehabilitation.