Lily James(I)

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Lily James at an event for Cinderella (2015)

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Lily James | Career Retrospective

Lily James was born Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson in Esher, Surrey, to Ninette (Mantle), an actress, and Jamie Thomson, an actor and musician. Her grandmother, Helen Horton, was an American actress. She began her education at Arts Educational School in Tring and subsequently went on to study acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, graduating in 2010.

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 5 wins & 15 nominations total

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Shazad Latif and Lily James in What's Love Got to Do with It? (2022)

Sebastian Stan and Lily James in Pam & Tommy (2022)

Known for

Cinderella

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Cinderella

2015

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

5.8

Elizabeth Bennet

2016

Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Cher, Andy Garcia, Meryl Streep, Stellan Skarsgård, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Hugh Skinner, Jeremy Irvine, Alexa Davies, Lily James, Jessica Keenan Wynn, and Josh Dylan in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

6.6

Young Donna

2018

Baby Driver

7.6

Debora

2017

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Actress

What's Love Got to Do with It?
- Zoe Stevenson
- 2022
BareFace: A Night of Mistakes
- Critic
- Short
- 2022
Pam & Tommy
- Pamela Anderson Lee
- Pamela Anderson
- TV Mini Series
- 2022
Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
- Rose
- TV Movie
- 2021
The Pursuit of Love
- Linda Radlett
- TV Mini Series
- 2021
The Dig
- Peggy Piggott
- 2021
Rebecca
- Mrs. de Winter
- 2020
Rare Beasts
- Cressida
- 2019
Yesterday
- Ellie Appleton
- 2019
One Red Nose and a Wedding
- Miranda
- TV Short
- 2019
All About Eve
- Eve Harrington
- 2019
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
- Young Donna
- 2018
Little Woods
- Deb
- 2018
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Juliet Ashton
- 2018
Sorry to Bother You
- Detroit's White British Voice (voice)
- 2018

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Soundtrack

Pam & Tommy
- performer: "Getting to Know You" (uncredited)
- TV Mini Series
- 2022
Yesterday
- performer: "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
- 2019
Comic Relief: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
- performer: "When I Kissed the Teacher"
- Short
- 2019
Diminishing Returns
- performer: "When I Kissed the Teacher", "Waterloo"
- performer: "Waterloo"
- Podcast Series
- 2018
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
- performer: "Part of Your World", "Kiss from a Rose" (uncredited)
- TV Series
- 2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
- performer: "When I Kissed the Teacher", "Waterloo", "Why Did It Have to Be Me?", "I Have a Dream", "Andante, Andante", "The Name of the Game", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Mamma Mia", "My Love, My Life", "Super Trouper"
- 2018
Cinderella
- performer: "Lavender's Blue", "Oh, Sing Sweet Nightingale", "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes"
- 2015

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Height
- 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
Born
- April 5, 1989
- Esher, Surrey, England, UK
Children
- No Children
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Other works
Performed in the West End stage production of "Romeo and Juliet" as Juliet, alongside Richard Madden, Freddie Fox, Derek Jacobi, Meera Syal, Marisa Berenson, Michael Rouse, Ansu Kabia and Sam Val, at the Garrick Theatre.
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Trivia
After learning that another actress in the Actors' Equity Association had the name Lily Thomson, she choose the stage surname of James to honour the memory of her father, James Thomson, who had died a few years earlier.