Biography

Lily is a NYC based actress, singer and musician. Born Liljana Talevski in Royal Oak, Michigan, she is of Macedonian descent and a metro-Detroit native, where she began her career on stage and soon after began working in film and commercial. From a young age she had a love for music and and storytelling, her first performances at age 5 being a song selection of her favorite Disney classics for the apartment complex neighbors whose balconies were above hers. Her drive for performing continued on through her teen years and eventually took her to college where she became the first college graduate in her immediate family.

In tandem with completing her BFA in Musical Theatre from Oakland University, she was a casting associate at Carrie Ray Casting (The Detroiters, Stone, Detroit, The Five Year Engagement).

Now residing in New York City, she works frequently with playwright and screenwriter Howard Emanuel and is a member of Joan Rosenfel's Acting Studio.

During her time at Oakland University, she worked as an Acting for the Camera TA, led by Los Angeles based actress, Milica (Mila) Govich, a former professor of Talevski's and fellow Balkan actress who works both on stage and screen.
- IMDb mini biography by: Lily Talevski

Her family emigrated to the United States during the 1960's and ran a family bakery in Hamtramck, Detroit until 1996 when an armed robbery led to the death of her grandfather, injury to her grandmother and left her mother, who was 24 years old at the time, paralyzed from the waist down.