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Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson (born 5 April 1989), known professionally as Lily James, is an English actress. She studied acting at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and began her career in the British television series Just William (2010). After 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 played Natasha Rostova in the television adaptation of War & Peace (2016) and has 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), and the musicals Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) and Yesterday (2019). Her portrayal of Pamela Anderson in the biographical series Pam & Tommy (2022) earned her Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson was born on 5 April 1989 in Esher, Surrey, the daughter of Ninette Mantle, an actress, and James "Jamie" Thomson, a musician. She has two brothers, an older and a younger one. Her maternal grandmother, Helen Horton, was an American actress. Her maternal grandmother was French, and fled her village near Paris because of the Nazis, later marrying James's grandfather, a minister in the Royal Air Force.
After completing her studies at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Hertfordshire, James graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London in 2010. Soon after, she signed with Tavistock Wood Management in London.
James' father, James Thomson, died of cancer in 2008. She took her father's first name as her stage name when she discovered there was already an actress named Lily Thomson.
She was in a relationship with actor Matt Smith, whom she met while working on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, from 2014 to 2019.
In 2021, James began dating American musician and songwriter Michael Shuman, a member of the US rock band Queens of the Stone Age. In February 2023 it was reported that the couple's relationship had ended
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