Lily James
Lily James
Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson, better known as Lily James, is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Lady Rose Aldridge in the ITV period drama Downton Abbey, and the title role in the 2015 Disney film Cinderella...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth5 April 1989
CityEsher, England
struggle jeans clothes
I love clothes but it's a struggle for me to get out of jeans and a baggy jumper.
princess grief heart
Playing a Disney princess is the most amazing, unbelievable thing and on the other, it's completely terrifying. I would say it's a cocktail of every sort of emotion. Princesses are great role models, they teach you about grief loss and have big hearts.
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You know that scene in 'Runaway Bride' when Julia Roberts puts on the amazing wedding dress and looks at herself in the mirror and goes, 'Swish, swish'? I loved that moment so much when I was a little girl.
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The greatest thing is that usually the auditions you think are bad are the ones you get.
girls growing women
For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.
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The famous pilot season literally sends shivers down my spine.
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I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.
I'm such a geek now with princesses. It's pathetic.
I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.
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It's hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.
I thought it'd be interesting to play an off-centre character who doesn't have to be pretty.
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In anything, I always give my all. I'm not a good loser.
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It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'
I want to do more theater, which allows you to take bigger risks and experiment.