Lily Luahana Cole (born 27 December 1987) is an English actress and entrepreneur. Cole pursued a modelling career as a teenager and was listed in 2009 by Vogue Paris as one of the top 30 models of the 2000s. She was booked for her first British Vogue cover at age 16, named "Model of the Year" at the 2004 British Fashion Awards, and worked with many well-known brands, including Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Jean Paul Gaultier and Moschino. Her advertising campaigns have included Longchamp, Anna Sui, Rimmel and Cacharel. Cole's first leading role as an actress was as Valentina in the 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Her other film work includes Passages, a short directed by Shekhar Kapur and There Be Dragons, directed by Roland Joffé. In 2013 Cole founded impossible.com, a website that hosts wishes and requests for assistance.

Filmography

• 2025How to Live
• 2022Hilma — Mathilda
• 2022Night Burns Like Cigarettes — Narrator
• 2018Balls — Director, Writer
• 2018London Fields — Trish Shirt
• Elizabeth I — Elizabeth I
• 2017Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Party Girl Lovey
• 2016Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie — Lily Cole
• 2015Gravy — Mimi
• 2015Orion — The Virgin
• 2015The Messenger — Emma
• 2013The Zero Theorem — Woman in Street Commercial
• 2012Confession of a Child of the Century — Elise
• 2012Snow White and the Huntsman — Greta
• OK! TV
• 2011The Moth Diaries — Ernessa Bloch
• 2011There Be Dragons — Aline
• 2009Passage — Tania
• 2009Pirelli Calendar 2010 (South Florida PBS) — Lily
• 2009Rage — Lettuce Leaf
• T Takes: Brooklyn '09 — Lily
• 2009The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus — Valentina
• 2007St Trinian's — Polly
• Doctor Who — Sea Siren

Appearances as themselves (13)

• 2018Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires — Self (Actor and Film Maker)
• The Big Narstie Show — Self - Guest
• Artsnight — Self - Presenter
• Acting Disruptive — Self
• 2013Are All Men Pedophiles? — Self (archive footage)
• Lily Cole's Art Matters — Herself
• The Last Leg — Self
• 2012London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music — Self
• London 2012 Olympic Games — Self
• Live from Studio Five — Self
• 2009The September Issue — Self (uncredited)
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• Work No. 2727 — Self