Lily James

Lily James was born on 5 April 1989 in Esher, Surrey. She is the daughter of Ninette Mantle, an actress, and James Thomson, a musician. She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

About Lily James in brief

Summary Lily JamesLily James was born on 5 April 1989 in Esher, Surrey. She is the daughter of Ninette Mantle, an actress, and James Thomson, a musician. She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Her film breakthrough was the title role in Cinderella. She went on to play Natasha Rostova in the television series War & Peace. She has also starred in several films, including Baby Driver and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. In 2019, she will star in Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.

She will also star in the West End adaptation of All About Eve alongside Gillian Anderson and Paul Whitehouse. The play opened on February 15, 2019, at the Noël Coward Theater in West End until it closed on May 11, 2019. James will also appear in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society in the UK in the summer of 2019. In the U.S., she will appear in the film version of The GuERNsey Literary Society, starring Emma Watson and Simon Cowell.