Ella Lily Hyland
{{Short description|Irish actress (born 1998)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Ella Lily Hyland
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1998}}
| birth_place = Carlow, Ireland
| occupation = Actress
|education = {{Plainlist|
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| years_active = 2019–present
| television = {{Plainlist|
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Ella Lily Hyland is an Irish actress.
Early life
From Carlow, Ireland, her grandfather Dinny Hyland was a record-breaking Irish pole vaulter. Her cousin Jamie Hyland is an All-Ireland schools champion in athletics. She trained in pole vaulting and long jump into her teenage years. A member of the County Carlow Youth Theatre Group and the National Youth Theatre, in 2015 she appeared at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin in Salt Mountain by Carmel Winters. She was a graduate of The Lir Academy in Dublin.{{cite web|website=Independent.ie|accessdate=13 December 2024|url=https://m.independent.ie/regionals/carlows-star-in-new-dublin-play/31473923.html|date=29 August 2015|first=Colm|last=Lambert|title=Carlow's star in new Dublin play}}{{cite web|url= https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfilm/ella-lily-hyland-black-doves-netflix-keira-knightley-ben-whishaw-b1199834.html|website=Evening Standard|access-date=13 December 2024|title= Meet Ella Lily Hyland – the breakout star of Netflix's Black Doves|first=Nick|last=Clark|date=13 December 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2023/07/16/ella-lily-hyland-i-think-were-often-taught-not-to-trust-our-instincts-as-women/|title=Ella Lily Hyland: 'I think we're often taught not to trust our instincts as women'|access-date=29 July 2023|website=Irish Times|first=Róisín|last=Ingle|date=16 July 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/ella-lily-hyland-fifteen-love |website=Glamour Magazine|access-date=29 July 2023|title=Ella Lily Hyland is the need-to-know star of Fifteen-Love, the #MeToo show from Line of Duty producers about a teenage tennis player and her abusive coach|first=Josh|last=Smith|date=26 July 2023}}
Career
Hyland had a lead role alongside Aidan Turner in the 2023 Amazon Prime Video tennis-based drama series Fifteen-Love.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/aidan-turner-tennis-fifteen-love-amazon-1235333175/|title=Poldark's' Aidan Turner, Ella Lily Hyland Lead #MeToo Tennis Drama 'Fifteen-Love' for Amazon Prime Video (Exclusive)|website=Variety|first=Manori|last=Ravindran|access-date=8 March 2023|date=4 August 2022}} Hyland trained for the tennis scenes and was helped on-set by tennis coach and former-pro Naomi Cavaday.{{Cite web|url=https://www.screendaily.com/features/rising-stars-ireland-2023-ella-lily-hyland-actor/5179087.article|website=Screen Daily|title=Rising Stars Ireland 2023: Ella Lily Hyland (actor)|first=Esther|last=McCarthy|date=15 February 2023|access-date=8 March 2023}} Lucy Mangan in The Guardian described her performance as "mesmerising" and "absolutely superlative", displaying "many facets" of her character – "dislikable, vulnerable, grief-stricken, a case of forced maturity and arrested development [all] at the same time".{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/21/fifteen-love-review-the-acting-in-this-impeccably-tense-drama-is-absolutely-mesmerising|website=The Guardian|access-date=29 July 2023|title=Fifteen-Love review – the acting in this impeccably tense drama is absolutely mesmerising|first=Lucy|last=Mangan|date=21 July 2023}} Dónal Lynch in the Irish Independent praised her "tremendous central performance" with "a mixture of vulnerability and knowingness, with a diffident and offhand delivery of her lines often belying the turmoil in her eyes."{{cite web|first=Donal|last=Lynch|access-date=29 July 2023|website=Irish Independent|url=https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/rising-irish-star-ella-lily-hyland-aces-it-in-timely-metoo-tennis-drama-fifteen-love/a80029633.html?|title=Rising Irish star Ella Lily Hyland aces it in timely MeToo tennis drama Fifteen-Love}} She can be seen in the 2023 Scottish film Silent Roar.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2023/film/asia/edinburgh-international-film-festival-silent-roar-1235643537/|website=Variety|access-date=29 July 2023|date=13 June 2023|title=Sex, Surfing and Hellfire Scottish Drama 'Silent Roar' to Open Edinburgh International Film Festival – Global Bulletin|first=Naman|last=Ramachandran}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2023/06/edinburgh-film-festival-opening-film-1235415721/|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=24 July 2023|title=Edinburgh Film Festival Reveals Opening Film|first=Zac|last=Ntim|date=13 June 2023}}
In 2024, she featured in the Netflix series Black Doves led by Keira Knightley;{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/black-doves-netflix-sarah-lancashire-newsupdate/|website=Radio Times|access-date=26 October 2023|title=Happy Valley's Sarah Lancashire joins Keira Knightley in Black Doves|first=James|last=Hibbs|date=25 October 2023}} the Evening Standard described her as "the breakout star" of the series. In September 2024, Hyland made her Abbey Theatre debut playing the titular character in the Lady Gregory play Grania, which ran until the following month.
Hyland has a role in Steven Knight's historical drama series A Thousand Blows (2025).{{cite web|url=https://www.countryandtownhouse.com/culture/ella-lily-hyland-fifteen-love-interview/|website=Countryandtownhouse.com|access-date=29 June 2023|title='I Cried Constantly – I Thought It Was So Visceral': Ella Lily Hyland On Fifteen Love, Prime Video – Interview|first=Olivia|last=Emily|date=21 July 2023}} She can also be seen in the BBC's 2025 adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero, as Audrey Strange, a character Hyland described as "twisted, nihilistic, and hedonistic".{{cite web|first=Lily|last=Ford|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/anjelica-huston-towards-zero-agatha-christie-bbc-1235915502/|website=Hollywood Reporter|accessdate=5 June 2024|date=5 June 2024|title= Anjelica Huston, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Mimi Keene to Star in Agatha Christie Adaptation ‘Towards Zero’}}{{cite web|url= https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0226/1498985-ella-lily-hyland-agatha-christie-towards-zero/|website=RTE|accessdate=26 Feb 2025|title= Rising Irish star Ella Lily Hyland plays a 'twisted' Agatha Christie character in BBC One's Towards Zero|date=26 Feb 2025}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2019
| Partner in Crime | Young Alana | Short film |
| 2021
| My Box and Me | Clementine | Short film |
| rowspan="2" | 2023
| Sas | |
| Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania
| Emma | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2021
| Intruder | Mia | Miniseries; episode 3 |
| rowspan="2"| 2023
| Justine Pearce | Lead role; episodes 1–6 |
| Storyland
| Lisa | Series 11; episode 1: "Wrapped" |
| 2024
| Williams | Series 1; episodes 1–6 |
| rowspan="2"| 2025
| Marianne Goodson | Episodes 1–6 |
| Towards Zero
| Audrey Strange | Miniseries; episodes 1–3 |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|10582505}}
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Category:Irish television actresses
Category:Actors from County Carlow