Lily James(I)

Actress
Producer
Soundtrack

Lily James at an event for Cinderella (2015)

Take a closer look at the various roles Lily James has played throughout her acting career.

Play clip1:15

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.

More at IMDbPro

IMDbProStarmeter Top 500160

View contact info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 5 wins & 14 nominations total

Photos504

+ 500

Known for

Cinderella

6.9

Cinderella

2015

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

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

5.8

Elizabeth Bennet

2016

Baby Driver

7.5

Debora

2017

Credits

IMDbPro

Actress

The Liberation
- Ricki King
- 2026
Swiped
6.5
- Whitney
- 2025
Relay
7.0
- Sarah
- 2024
Greedy People
6.2
- Paige
- 2024
The Iron Claw
7.5
- Pam
- 2023
Finally Dawn
5.8
- Josephine Esperanto
- 2023
What's Love Got to Do with It?
6.3
- Zoe Stevenson
- 2022
BareFace: A Night of Mistakes
5.3
Short
- Critic
- 2022
Pam & Tommy
7.2
TV Mini Series
- Pamela Anderson
- Pamela Anderson Lee
- 2022
Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
6.9
TV Movie
- Rose
- 2021
The Pursuit of Love
6.7
TV Mini Series
- Linda Radlett
- 2021
The Dig
7.1
- Peggy Piggott
- 2021
Rebecca
6.1
- Mrs. de Winter
- 2020
Rare Beasts
5.4
- Cressida
- 2019
Yesterday
6.8
- Ellie Appleton
- 2019

Producer

Soundtrack

Pam & Tommy
7.2
TV Mini Series
- performer: "Getting to Know You" (uncredited)
- 2022
Yesterday
6.8
- performer: "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
- 2019
Comic Relief: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
7.0
Short
- performer: "When I Kissed the Teacher"
- 2019
Diminishing Returns
3.1
Podcast Series
- performer: "When I Kissed the Teacher", "Waterloo"
- performer: "Waterloo"
- 2018
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
7.0
TV Series
- performer: "Part of Your World", "Kiss from a Rose" (uncredited)
- 2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
6.6
- 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
6.9
- performer: "Lavender's Blue", "Oh, Sing Sweet Nightingale", "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes"
- 2015

In-development projects at IMDbPro

Videos93

Clip 1:15

Lily James | Career Retrospective

Clip 2:25

Who Are This Week's Biggest Names in Comedy?

Clip 2:25

Who Are This Week's Biggest Names in Comedy?

Clip 1:35

'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again' Stars Share Their Favorite Movie Musicals

Personal details

Official site
- Instagram
Height
- 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
Born
- April 5, 1989
- Esher, Surrey, England, UK
Children
- No Children
Parents
Relatives
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.
Publicity listings

Did you know

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.