Lily James

At 35 years old, Lily James has this physical status:

Lily Chloe Thomson (born 5 April 1989), also known as Lily James, is an English actress.

She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and began her acting career in the British television series Just William (2010).

She had her film debut in the romance fantasy film Cinderella (2015) after appearing in supporting roles in the period drama series Downton Abbey (2012–15). James went on to play Natasha Rostova in the period television series War & Peace (2016), the war drama Darkest Hour (2015), the historical drama The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018), and musicals Mamma Mia! We're Back (2019) and Here We Go Again (2018) and Yesterday (2019).

Early life

Lily Chloe Thomson was born in Esher, Surrey, on April 5, 1989, the niece of actress Ninette Mantle and musician James "Jamie" Thomson. She has two brothers, one older and one younger. Helen Horton, Helen Horton's paternal grandmother, was an American actress. Her maternal grandmother, who was French, and she and her family escaped near Paris after the Nazis, marrying James' grandfather, a minister in the RAF. In 2010, James completed her studies at Tring Park School of the Performing Arts in Hertfordshire, Shetfordshire. She began working with Tavistock Wood in London less than a year later.

Personal life

James Thomson, Lily's father, died of cancer in 2008. When she learned there was already an actress named Lily Thomson, she used her father's first name as her stage name.

She was in a relationship with actor Matt Smith, whom she encountered while working on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies from 2014 to 2019.

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Career

Ethel Brown appeared on television in the 2010 BBC film Just William, Poppy of Richmal Crompton, as well as Lady Rose Aldrige in Downton Abbey. In the fourth and fifth series of the series, Lady Rose became a central character. In the series finale, James appeared as Lady Rose.

In 2011, James appeared in Tanya Ronder's stage production of Vernon God Little directed by Rufus Norris, Nina in Russell Bolam's modern interpretation of The Seagull at Southwark Playhouse, and Desdemona in Daniel Evans' production of Othello, which also starred Dominic West and Clarke Peters.

In 2012, James appeared as Katrina in Play House and Marijka in Definitely the Bahamas in a double-bill written and directed by Martin Crimp at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London, as part of the theatre's 40th anniversary. Obi Abili and Lily James performed "with a convincing mixture of mischief and deeper feeling," Charles Spencer of The Telegraph wrote. Obi Abili and Lily James, the former couple of neuroticism and glittering sexual allure that is both stimulating and robust, is a popular combination of mischief and deeper emotion, the latter comprising a flurry of mistrust and deeper feeling, the former combining a mixture of neuroticism and glowing sexual allure that is exceptionally potent." James starred in Fast Girls, a Warner Brothers film that revolved around a group of young female athletes competing in the World Championships, and was named Korrina.

In Kenneth Branagh's 2015 live-action Disney film Cinderella, James played Cinderella. For the December 2014 issue of Vogue, Annie Leibovitz photographed James as Cinderella, wearing her character's blue gown to the ball. In the end credits, James made her singing debut in the film "Sing Sweet Nightingale," "Lavender's Blue" and "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" from the 1950 animated film.

Natasha Rostova played Natasha Rostova on television in 2016, reprising her role in the BBC historical drama series War & Peace. Elizabeth Bennet appeared in her second major film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a parody of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Even at the box office, it received mixed feedback and failed to break. In the Garrick Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet starring Rob Ashford and actor-director Kenneth Branagh in 2016, James played Juliet.

She appeared in several major films in 2017. In Edgar Wright's action film Baby Driver, Debora, the main character's love interest, appeared. In Joe Wright's war drama film Darkest Hour, Elizabeth Layton, a secretary to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (played by Gary Oldman), played Elizabeth Layton. She also appeared in The Exception, a World War II drama film starring a British agent disguised as a servant to exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II.

In the sequel to Mamma Mia!, James starred as the younger version of Meryl Steedan's character, Donna Sheridan. We're back. In July 2018, the film was released. Author Juliet Ashton appeared in the 1940s period drama The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society trades letters with the inhabitants of Guernsey, an island off the coast of Normandy that was German-occupied during World War II.

In Ivo van Hove's stage version of All About Eve starring Gillian Anderson, James appeared in 2019. The play opened on February 15 to rave reviews and was running at the Nol Coward Theatre in the West End until May 11.

In an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Gothic romance Rebecca directed by Ben Wheatley and co-starring Armie Hammer, James played second Mrs. de Winter in 2020. Peggy Piggott appeared in The Dig, a British film directed by Simon Stone, based on John Preston's 2007 book of the same name. Pamela Anderson was cast in the Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy in late 2020.

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