The Biography Of The English Actress Lilly James

Born to a mother who was a veteran actress and a father who wrote his name in gold in the entertainment industry through his songs, the English actress popularly known as Lilly James was surely born with the entertainment genes in her DNA. Lily’s ancestry is still traceable to her grandmother Helen Horton who was the voice behind Mother, the computer mainframe in the 1979 film Alien produced by Ridley Scott's.

The young Lily started fulfilling her passion for entertainment on the stage, given her strikingly beautiful looks and inborn prowess for acting, it was not long before she got noticed by casting directors and was consequently placed in television roles before she moved on to the big screen. Since then, the prolific actress has recorded a good number of films and television series which have earned her international recognition.

Biography

Lily was born into the Thompson family on the 5th day of April 1989 in Esher UK, Surrey with the given name Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson, although she is of British nationality, she has a mixed ancestry of German, Scottish, French and English. The versatile actress came from a long line of entertainers, her mom Ninette Thomson was a renowned actress while her dad Jamie Thomson was a popular musician. The long line of entertainers continued into her ancestry because even her grandma Helen Horton was one of the celebrated actresses of her time.

Her educational qualifications started at Arts Educational School Tring, she later moved on to Guildhall School of Music and Drama London where she majored in acting graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2010. Not long after graduation, the emerging actress signed on with Tavistock Wood management in London and her career in the entertainment industry took off from there. On learning that another actress by the name Lily Thompson already exist in the entertainment industry, Lily took on her father’s given name James though it was viewed by fans as a tribute to her dad who died in 2008 from the ravages of cancer.

Height

The beautiful actress sports a slim body build with the curvaceous hour glass shape, she stands at an average height of 5 feet 7 inches or 170cm and weighs a commensurate 55 kg or 121 lb in body mass which perfectly suits her height. Her general body statistics is listed as 34-24-35 which is broken down as bust-35, waist-24 and hip-35. Lily wears a bra size of 32B, she has dark brown eye color with light brown hair.

Movies and TV series

You can conveniently classify Lily James as one of the prolific actresses of our time, she has a long list of movies and television series to her credit but let’s start from the TV series. It was on the set of BBC series titled Just Williams (2010) that she made her television debut, portraying the character of Ethel Brown, following it up with a recurring role in the popular series The secret of a Call Girl (2011). She got international attention when she was featured as Lady Rose in a supporting role on the set of Down Town Abbey (2012- 2015) Lily was portrayed as Natasha Rostova in War and Peace (2016), Taylor in Vernon God Little and Desdemona in Othello (2011).

She was cast as Nina in The Seagull (2012) and played the starring role of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (2016). The versatile actress is set to appear as Eve Harrington in All About Eve which is slated for 2019.Her stint on the big screen is endless, in 2012, she played the roles of Ines in Chemistry, Korina in Wrath of the Titans, Older skunk in Broken and Lisa Temple in Fast Girls. Lily did a couple of movies in 2015, she was the star actor in the fantasy movie titled Cinderella and played the role of Sera in Burnt.

She went on do more in 2016 with her portrayal of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Lily was cast as Mieke de Jong in The Exception and played the role of Betty in The Tale of Thomas Burbery. Other movies she has featured in include; Baby Driver and Darkest Hour (2017). This 2018, she has already appeared in four different movies titled; Sorry to Bother You, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Little Woods and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

Net Worth

The renowned English actress’ net worth has been pegged at a tidy $4 million by some trusted sources, although her salary cannot be ascertained at the moment, her estimated net worth is believed to have accrued from her acting career.