Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson (born 5 April 1989), known professionally as Lily James, is an English actress. She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She began her career in the British television series Just William (2010). Following a supporting role in the period drama series Downton Abbey (2012–2015), her breakthrough was the title role in the fantasy film Cinderella (2015). James went on to portray Natasha Rostova in the television adaptation of War & Peace (2016). She starred in several films, including the action film Baby Driver (2017), the period dramas Darkest Hour (2017), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) and The Dig (2021), the musicals Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) and Yesterday (2019), and the sports drama The Iron Claw (2023). Her portrayal of Pamela Anderson in the biographical series Pam & Tommy (2022) earned her nominations for a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lily James, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2027Cliffhanger — Naomi Cooper
• 2027Seasons
• 2027The Liberation — Leader
• 2026Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo — Nguyen
• 2026The Angry Birds Movie 3 — (voice)
• 2025Relay — Sarah
• 2025Swiped — Whitney, Producer
• 2024Finally Dawn — Josephine Esperanto
• 2024Greedy People — Paige
• 2023The Iron Claw — Pam
• 2023What's Love Got to Do with It? — Zoe Stevenson
• Pam & Tommy — Pamela Anderson
• 2021Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas — Rose
• 2021Rare Beasts — Cressida
• 2021The Dig — Peggy Piggott
• The Pursuit of Love — Linda Radlett, Executive Producer
• 2020Rebecca — Mrs. de Winter
• 2019Little Woods — Deborah Hale
• 2019National Theatre Live: All About Eve — Eve Harrington
• 2019One Red Nose Day and a Wedding — Miranda
• 2019Yesterday — Ellie Appleton
• 2018Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again — Young Donna
• 2018Sorry to Bother You — Detroit's White British Voice (voice)
• 2018The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society — Juliet Ashton
• 2017Baby Driver — Debora
• 2017Darkest Hour — Elizabeth Layton
• 2017The Exception — Mieke de Jong
• 2016Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet — Juliet Capulet
• 2016Pride and Prejudice and Zombies — Elizabeth Bennet
• 2016The Tale of Thomas Burberry — Betty
• War and Peace — Natasha Rostova
• 2015Burnt — Sara
• 2015Cinderella — Cinderella
• 2013Silent Treatment — The Girl
• 2012Broken — Older Skunk
• 2012Chemistry — Ines
• 2012Fast Girls — Lisa Temple
• 2012Wrath of the Titans — Korrina
• 2011Chloe and Will's Hot Date Night — Chloe
• Downton Abbey — Rose MacClare, Lady Rose MacClare
• Just William — Ethel Brown
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl — Poppy
• Cowboy Bob — Peggy Jo
• Let the Evil Go West
• Photo Booth — Jean Bouchet, Producer
• Subversion

Appearances as themselves (8)

• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self, Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• The View — Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• The Oscars — Self