Acting credits
51
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Lily James
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
4.5
Moderate attention
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Movies: 38Series: 13Crew credits: 3
TMDB ID: 1016168
IMDb ID: nm4141252
Known for: Acting
Born: April 5, 1989
Age: 36
Place of birth: Esher, Surrey, England, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1953 - 2026
Years active: 74
Average TMDB rating: 6.66
Wikidata: Q13217306
Also known as
Lily Thomson • Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson
Other jobs
Producer (2)Executive Producer (1)
Biography
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Lily James.
Dec 23
The Angry Birds Movie 3
as (voice)
2026 Movie
Aug 26
Cliffhanger
as Naomi Cooper
2026 Movie
6.5
Swiped
as Whitney
2025 Movie
7.0
Relay
as Sarah
2025 Movie
6.3
Greedy People
as Paige
2024 Movie
6.0
Finally Dawn
as Josephine Esperanto
2024 Movie
7.5
The Iron Claw
as Pam Adkisson
2023 Movie
6.0
What's Love Got to Do with It?
as Zoe Stevenson
2023 Movie
4.7
Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
as Rose
2021 Movie
5.5
Rare Beasts
as Cressida
2021 Movie
6.8
The Dig
as Peggy Piggott
2021 Movie
6.3
Rebecca
as Mrs. de Winter
2020 Movie
6.7
Yesterday
as Ellie Appleton
2019 Movie
5.4
Little Woods
as Deborah Hale
2019 Movie
7.0
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
as Miranda
2019 Movie
8.5
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
as Eve Harrington
2019 Movie
7.1
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
as Young Donna Sheridan
2018 Movie
6.8
Sorry to Bother You
as Detroit's White British Voice (voice)
2018 Movie
7.4
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as Juliet Ashton
2018 Movie
7.4
Darkest Hour
as Elizabeth Layton
2017 Movie
7.4
Baby Driver
as Debora
2017 Movie
6.9
The Exception
as Mieke de Jong
2017 Movie
6.0
The Tale of Thomas Burberry
as Betty
2016 Movie
8.0
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
as Juliet Capulet
2016 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Lily James.
7.2
Pam & Tommy
as Pamela Anderson • 8 eps
2022 Series
6.6
The Pursuit of Love
as Linda Radlett • 3 eps
2021 Series
6.4
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self • 2 eps
2019 Series
7.6
War and Peace
as Natasha Rostova • 6 eps
2016 Series
4.5
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
5.3
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
6.7
Just William
as Ethel Brown • 4 eps
2010 Series
8.1
Downton Abbey
as Rose MacClare • 8 eps
2010 Series
6.8
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
as Poppy • 8 eps
2007 Series
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
as Self • 2 eps
2007 Series
5.4
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1988 Series
7.1
The Oscars
as Self • 1 eps
1953 Series