Lily Cole
{{Short description|English model and actress (born 1987)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2012}}
{{Infobox model
| name = Lily Cole
| image = Lily Cole, London, 6 June 2013 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Cole in London, 2013
| birth_name = Lily Luahana Cole
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1987|12|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Torquay, Devon, England
| nationality = British
| alma_mater = King's College, Cambridge
| occupation = {{hlist|Model|actress|entrepreneur}}
| years_active = 2000–present
| hair_colour = Red
| eye_colour = Blue
| agency = IMG Models (worldwide)
CAA
| organisation = Impossible.com
| children = 1
| awards = Honorary degree for contribution to humanitarian and environmental causes, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2013.Ella Alexander, [http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2013/07/03/lily-cole-given-honorary-degree-at-glasgow-caledonian-university "Lily Cole's Third Degree"], Vogue, 3 July 2013.
| website = {{url|http://www.lilycole.com}}
}}
Lily Luahana Cole (born 27 December 1987)[http://lilycole.com/autobiography/ "Autobiography"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321074628/http://lilycole.com/autobiography/ |date=21 March 2016 }}, lilycole.com.{{cite web |url=http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/633020/LILY-LUAHANA-COLE |title=Lily Luahana Cole – London – Model |website=Check Company |access-date=15 June 2016}} is a British model, author, film director, actress and entrepreneur.{{cite web |last=Marre |first=Oliver |url=https://www.theguardian.com/observer/7days/story/0,,2235953,00.html |title=Pendennis: Lily's in the pink, not the red |work=The Observer |date=6 January 2008 |access-date=5 November 2017}} Cole pursued a modelling career as a teenager and was listed in 2009 by Vogue Paris as one of the top 30 models of the 2000s. She was booked for her first British Vogue cover at age 16, named "Model of the Year" at the 2004 British Fashion Awards and has worked with many well-known brands, including Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Jean Paul Gaultier and Moschino. Her advertising campaigns have included Longchamp, Anna Sui,{{cite web |url=https://models.com/Work/anna-sui-anna-sui-make-up-fall-2007 |title=Anna Sui Make Up Fall 2007 |date=2007 |website=models.com |access-date=23 January 2017 }} Rimmel and Cacharel. In 2020, Cole published Who Cares Wins, a book about how humans' lives impact the planet and how humans can respond to climate emergency challenges. In 2021, the book was turned into a podcast in which Cole invites guests with different perspectives to explore critical issues — and their relationship to the environment — ranging from technology and food to mental health and capitalism.
Cole's first leading role as an actress was as Valentina in the 2009 film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Her other film work includes Passages, a short directed by Shekhar Kapur, and There Be Dragons directed by Roland Joffé.{{Cite news|title=Les 30 mannequins des années 2000|work=Vogue Paris|date=18 December 2009|url=http://www.vogue.fr/mode/en-vogue/diaporama/les-30-mannequins-des-annees-2000/1662#!091218-les-mannequins-des-annees-2000-aspx72588image-jpg|access-date=21 May 2012|location=France|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922135916/http://www.vogue.fr/mode/en-vogue/diaporama/les-30-mannequins-des-annees-2000/1662#!091218-les-mannequins-des-annees-2000-aspx72588image-jpg|archive-date=22 September 2013|url-status=dead}} In 2013, Cole founded impossible.com, an innovation group and incubator (previously a gift economy social network, now renamed Impossible People).{{cite news|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/achieving-the-impossible-with-lily-cole|title=Achieving the impossible with Lily Cole|publisher=Wired.co.uk|date=17 November 2017|access-date=16 February 2018|archive-date=17 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180217024011/http://www.wired.co.uk/article/achieving-the-impossible-with-lily-cole|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-portugal-websummit-lily-cole/forget-glamor-model-lily-cole-wants-tech-for-good-to-encourage-women-girls-idUSKBN1332LT|title= Forget glamor, model Lily Cole wants tech for good to encourage women, girls |publisher=Reuters |date= 8 November 2016|access-date=16 February 2018}}
Early life and education
Cole was born in Torquay, Devon, to Patience Owen, an artist and writer, and Chris Cole, a fisherman and boat builder. She has no contact with her father, who left home when she was a baby; she and her sister were raised by their Welsh mother in London.{{Cite news|last=Rumbold|first=Judy|title=Lily Cole: Angry young mannequin|work=The Irish Independent|date=24 January 2010|url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/lily-cole-angry-young-mannequin-2029424.html}}
Cole attended Hallfield Primary School, the Sylvia Young Theatre School, and St Marylebone School.Jo Knowsley, [https://www.tes.com/article.aspx?storycode=6343255 "Miss Colyer & Mr Bearman by Lily Cole"], TES magazine, 12 July 2013. At Latymer Upper School, where she completed her sixth form studies, she achieved A grades in her A-levels in English, politics, and philosophy and ethics.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/lily-cole-the-catwalk-queen-who-conquered-hollywood-1788461.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/lily-cole-the-catwalk-queen-who-conquered-hollywood-1788461.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Lily Cole: the catwalk queen who conquered Hollywood|last=Mottram|first=James|date=19 September 2009|work=The Independent}}
She gained a place to read Social and Political Sciences at King's College, Cambridge in 2006, deferring entry twice.{{cite web|url=http://www.hellomagazine.com/fashion/2006/08/18/lilycole|title=LILY PROVES SHE'S GOT BRAINS AS WELL AS BEAUTY|date=18 August 2006|work=Hello|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070426014619/http://www.hellomagazine.com/fashion/2006/08/18/lilycole/|archive-date=26 April 2007|df=dmy-all}}{{pb}}
{{cite news|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/7days/story/0,,2126664,00.html|title=Pendennis|first=Oliver|last=Marre|date=15 July 2007|work=The Observer}} In 2008 she switched to history of art and graduated in 2011 with a double first.{{cite web|url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8596331/Lily-Cole-graduates-top-of-her-class.html|title=Lily Cole graduates top of her class|date=24 June 2011|work=The Daily Telegraph}}
Modelling
=Magazines and fashion shows=
File:London 2012 Models (1).jpg in London]]
Cole was photographed in 2001 at age 13 by fashion photographer Mariano Vivanco.[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw191958/Lily-Cole?LinkID=mp86332&role=sit&rNo=0 "Lily Cole"], National Portrait Gallery. According to the Evening Standard in 2004, her modelling career began in 2003 when she was approached in the street by Benjamin Hart of Storm Models.Alexa Baracaia, Luke Leitch, [https://www.standard.co.uk/news/schoolgirl-lily-gets-vogue-cover-7226039.html "Schoolgirl Lily gets Vogue cover"], London Evening Standard, 25 February 2004. She signed with Storm and in 2003 was photographed by Steven Meisel for Italian Vogue.{{cite web |url=http://nymag.com/fashion/models/lcole/lilycole|title=Lily Cole – Model Profile|access-date=7 January 2008|work=New York}} Her distinctive red hair attracted significant media attention.{{cite web|url=http://entertainment.stv.tv/tv/163232-fiery-reds-are-turning-heads-this-season|title=Fiery reds are turning heads this season|date=12 March 2010|work=STV|access-date=28 March 2010|archive-date=8 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108194555/http://entertainment.stv.tv/tv/163232-fiery-reds-are-turning-heads-this-season/|url-status=dead}} At the 2004 British Fashion Awards, she was named "Model of the Year".{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/090901-lily-coles-new-films-.aspx|title=Model Act|last=Bumpus|first=Jessica|date=1 September 2009|work=Vogue|publisher=Condé Nast Publications|access-date=6 January 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904204151/http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/090901-lily-coles-new-films-.aspx|archive-date=4 September 2009|df=dmy-all}}
Cole worked with many prominent photographers, including Craig McDean, Nick Knight, Juergen Teller, Arthur Elgort, Irving Penn and Tim Walker.{{cite news|url=http://www.elleuk.com/news/Fashion-News/lily-cole-reveals-how-she-feels-about-her-looks/(gid)/453263|title=Lily Cole Reveals How She Feels About Her Looks|last=Sells|first=Emma|date=8 January 2010|work=Elle|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710184816/http://www.elleuk.com/news/fashion-news/lily-cole-reveals-how-she-feels-about-her-looks/(gid)/453263|archive-date=10 July 2011|df=dmy-all}} She has appeared on the covers of Playboy in France, Vogue, Citizen K, and V, among others.{{cite web|url=http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/2009/11/elle_canada_kic.html|title=Elle Canada kicks off 2010 with Lily Cole|last=Foster|first=Kimberley|date=27 November 2009|work=Catwalk Queen|publisher=Aigua Media Ltd|access-date=19 June 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201000526/http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/2009/11/elle_canada_kic.html|archive-date=1 February 2010|df=dmy-all}} She featured on Vogue{{'s}} "best dressed" list in December 2005, and had cover appearances on Numéro and Interview.{{cite web|url=http://www.shinystyle.tv/2009/12/lily_cole_poses_in_marc_jacobs.html|title=Lily Cole poses in Marc Jacobs and Jean Yu for Interview Magazine|last=Petrou|first=Andrea|date=18 December 2009|work=Shiny Style|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130418183023/http://www.shinystyle.tv/2009/12/lily_cole_poses_in_marc_jacobs.html|archive-date=18 April 2013|df=dmy-all}}
She modelled on the international runway circuit and at many fashion shows on behalf of Chanel, Shiatzy Chen, DKNY, Jean Paul Gaultier, Versace, Alexander McQueen, Jasper Conran,[https://www.jasperconran.com/collections/womenswear/archive/a-w-2007,112,COL.html Jasper Conran Autumn/Winter 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713090858/http://www.jasperconran.com/collections/womenswear/archive/a-w-2007,112,COL.html |date=13 July 2011 }} John Galliano and Louis Vuitton.{{cite web|url=http://www.top-fashion-models.info/female-models/lily-cole.html|title=Lily Cole pictures, biography, measurements, photo gallery|publisher=Top-fashion-models.info|access-date=6 February 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170530191012/http://www.top-fashion-models.info/female-models/lily-cole.html|archive-date=30 May 2017|url-status=dead}} She was nominated, for the second time, for the "Model of the Year" award at the 2007 British Fashion Awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/2007-11/071127-british-fashion-award-winners-2007.aspx|title=British Fashion Awards 2007 – check out who won what|work=Vogue|publisher=Condé Nast Publications|date=27 November 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090718013311/http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/2007-11/071127-british-fashion-award-winners-2007.aspx|archive-date=18 July 2009|df=dmy-all}} In December 2009 she was listed by Vogue Paris as one of the top 30 models of the 2000s.{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.fr/mode/en_vogue/091218-les-mannequins-des-annees-2000.aspx|title=LES 30 MANNEQUINS DES ANNÉES 2000|date=18 December 2009|work=Vogue|language=fr|access-date=20 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120410211147/http://www.vogue.fr/mode/en-vogue/diaporama/les-30-mannequins-des-annees-2000/1662|archive-date=10 April 2012|url-status=dead}} Cole made a cover appearance on the January 2010 issue of the Canadian Elle and opened Hermès's winter 2010/2011 collection at Paris Fashion Week in March.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} Towards the end of 2010, she featured in a documentary chronicling the career of Rolf Harris in which he painted her dressing up as Titania from A Midsummer Night's Dream.Vikram Jayanti, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8214716/Rolf-Harris-paints-A-Midsummer-Nights-Dream.html "Rolf Harris paints A Midsummer Night's Dream"], The Daily Telegraph, 29 December 2010. Cole has additionally graced the covers of Vogue (UK, Russia, Korea), Harper's Bazaar (UK, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Russia, Ukraine, Taiwan, Turkey) and i-D.
During the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, Cole was one of the British models wearing fashions created by British designers specifically for the event.{{cite journal|author=Sarah Karmali|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2012/08/13/olympic-closing-ceremony---christopher-kane-suit-stella-tennant-supermodel-segment | journal=Vogue (UK) | title=Closing Couture|date=13 August 2012}}
=Advertising=
File:Lily Cole (Berlin Film Festival 2009) 2.jpg
Cole has appeared in advertising campaigns for Chanel, Christian Lacroix, Hermès, Longchamp, Cacharel, Topshop and Anna Sui cosmetics, as well as being the face for Moschino's perfume "I Love Love". In September 2007, Cole was announced as the follow-up model for Accessorize, taking the place of Claudia Schiffer,{{cite web|url=http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/2007/02/lily_cole_and_l.html|title=Catwalk Queen: Lily Cole and Liz Hurley debut for Monsoon-Accessorize|publisher=Catwalkqueen.tv|date=9 February 2007|access-date=6 February 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207074459/http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/2007/02/lily_cole_and_l.html|archive-date=7 December 2008|df=dmy-all}} also designing a line of handbags for the collection.{{cite web|url=http://www.bagbliss.com/designer/other-designer-purse/heidi-klum-handbags-at-monsoon-accessorize|title=Heidi Klum Handbags at Monsoon Accessorize|publisher=Bagbliss.com|date=18 September 2007|access-date=6 February 2009|archive-date=11 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111002443/http://www.bagbliss.com/designer/other-designer-purse/heidi-klum-handbags-at-monsoon-accessorize/|url-status=dead}}
Cole has been modelling for cosmetics company Rimmel London since October 2009,{{cite web|url=http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/2009/04/lily_coles_rimm.html|title=Lily Cole's Rimmel ad campaign – finally revealed!|last=Foster|first=Kimberley|date=2 April 2010|work=Catwalk Queen|publisher=Aigua Media Ltd|access-date=19 June 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605223241/http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/2009/04/lily_coles_rimm.html|archive-date=5 June 2009|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|url=http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/858358/Rimmel-London-launches-new-faces-Sophie-Ellis-Bextor-Lily-Cole-online|title=Rimmel London launches new faces Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Lily Cole online|work=Brand Republic|access-date=6 February 2009}} as well as featuring in advertisements for jewellers Tiffany & Co.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/aug/22/nuclear.fashion|title= 50 Years of the Peace symbol|last=Coulson|first=Clare|date=22 August 2008|work=The Guardian|access-date=8 January 2010|location=London}} Along with Twiggy and others, Cole became a "face" of Marks and Spencer clothes advertising campaign, making her the youngest model in a campaign for the company.{{cite web|url=http://www.fashionunited.co.uk/News/Columns/Lily_Cole_new_face_of_M&S_200711172314 |title=Lily Cole: new face of M&S |publisher=Fashionunited.co.uk |date=17 November 2007 |access-date=6 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621235846/http://www.fashionunited.co.uk/News/Columns/Lily_Cole_new_face_of_M%26S_200711172314 |archive-date=21 June 2008 |url-status=dead }}
She launched a campaign in June 2010 at Gatwick Airport for modelling agency, Storm Model Management. The campaign aims to find new modelling talent from people passing through the airport, with the agency hoping to re-create the discovery of Kate Moss, who was spotted at JFK Airport in 1988 by the agency's founder.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionnews/7795127/Lily-Cole-seeks-new-modelling-talent-at-Gatwick-airport.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605053932/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionnews/7795127/Lily-Cole-seeks-new-modelling-talent-at-Gatwick-airport.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 June 2010|title=Lily Cole seeks new modelling talent at Gatwick airport|date= 2 June 2010|work=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cite web|url=http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/2010/06/lily_cole_storm.html|title=Lily Cole storms the Gatwick runway for model search|last=Foster|first=Kimberley|date=2 June 2010|work=Catwalk Queen|publisher=Aigua Media Ltd|access-date=19 June 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605031527/http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/2010/06/lily_cole_storm.html|archive-date=5 June 2010|df=dmy-all}}
In March 2012 The Body Shop launched its Beauty With Heart campaign, naming Cole as its first ambassador.{{cite web|url=http://www.mydaily.co.uk/2012/03/23/lily-cole-body-shop-beauty-with-heart|title=Lily Cole embraces drapery at Body Shop Beauty With Heart launch|last=Warr|first=Philippa|date=23 June 2012|work=My Daily|access-date=23 March 2012}}
Acting
=Films=
File:Lily Cole - Toronto International Film Festival 2009 cropped.jpg at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009]]
Cole made her acting debut as Polly in the 2007 comedy St Trinian's, a rework of the black and white films of the 1950s and '60s,{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3669901/The-St-Trinians-girls-go-to-pot.html|title=The St Trinian's girls go to pot|first=Will|last=Lawrence|date=14 December 2007|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=26 May 2011}} alongside Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Russell Brand, Jodie Whittaker and Stephen Fry.{{cite web|url=http://www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/44711-lily-joins-st-trinians|title=Lily joins St Trinians|date=10 April 2007|work=Metro|access-date=8 January 2010}}
Her first leading role came in Terry Gilliam's 2009 fantasy film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, playing Valentina, the teenage daughter of Christopher Plummer's title character, Dr Parnassus, whom Parnassus has promised to the Devil (Tom Waits) upon her 16th birthday.{{cite web|url=http://www.cinematical.com/tag/lily+cole|title=Posts tagged Lily cole at Cinematical|publisher=Cinematical.com|access-date=6 February 2009}} Acting alongside Heath Ledger (who died before filming had finished), Cole, in an interview for the Daily Telegraph admitted that, at times, she felt out of her depth in the role — saying "I'd only done a couple of films and here I was surrounded by amazing actors like Christopher Plummer and Heath Ledger, and it was intimidating at times",{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/6271956/Lily-Cole-interview-for-The-Imaginarium-of-Dr-Parnassus.html|title=Lily Cole interview for The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus|last=Lawrence|first=Will|date=8 October 2009|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=29 November 2009|location=London}} also describing the role as "the biggest role I've ever done".
Gilliam said of Cole: "She has an amazing look and grasps what is required so very quickly. If she wants a career as an actress, she has a brilliant future". According to Mark Olsen of The Los Angeles Times, writing as Parnassus was released in the United States, "Cole brings a surprising well of emotional tenderness to her part as Valentina",{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-cole31-2009dec31,0,5583294.story|title=Lily Cole already has a fan in Terry Gilliam|last=Olsen|first=Mark|date= 31 December 2009|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=7 January 2010|location=Los Angeles}} while Ryan Michael Painter wrote of the film on 'inthisweek.com' that "all of the performances are delightful, particularly Cole's as Valentina, proving that the haute couture model has more to offer this world than a pretty face".{{cite web|url=http://www.inthisweek.com/view.php?id=2032688|title=Film Review: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus|last=Ryan Michael|first=Painter|date=5 January 2010|work=In Utah this Week|publisher=MediaOne|access-date=7 January 2010|location=Utah|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716031120/http://www.inthisweek.com/view.php?id=2032688|archive-date=16 July 2011|df=dmy-all}}
Cole appeared at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival in December 2009 to promote Parnassus.{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalhit.com/galleries/34/532/21|title=Lily Cole at The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus premiere at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival|date=December 2009|work=Digital Hit|access-date=4 January 2010}}
She was featured as herself in one episode of the online series T Takes, a series of short, improvised films published by The New York Times.{{cite news|url=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/t-takes-season-2-of-our-video-series|title='T Takes'- Season 2 of Our Video Series|last=Muhlke|first=Christine|date=8 January 2009|work=The New York Times Syle Magazine|publisher=The New York Times Company|access-date=6 January 2010|location=New York City}} Cole appeared as "Lettuce Leaf", a celebrity supermodel in the 2009 film, Rage, directed by Sally Potter. Cole also played "Aline" in the 2011 film There Be Dragons.
In January 2010, Cole gave an interview to the Canadian edition of Elle in which she expressed her desire to focus more on acting than on her modelling career, saying she "wouldn't want to treat acting as a convenient thing to do now and again", going on to mention her roles in the upcoming films There Be Dragons and Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll and saying of her modelling "I've been doing modelling for years and I feel like I've taken out of it what I need to and I'm ready for new things"{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} and that "film asks for a much bigger emotional and intellectual commitment." Cole had a part in Mary Harron's The Moth Diaries, which was released in 2012.
=Other roles=
Cole made a minor appearance in the music video for the Girls Aloud and Sugababes cover of "Walk This Way" in aid of the charity Comic Relief, in which she struts up and down a catwalk in "hilarious ways", interspersed by the bands and several well-known British television personalities.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/mar/08/popandrock|title=Sugababes vs Girls Aloud – Walk This Way|work=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media|date=8 March 2007|access-date=6 February 2009|location=London|first=Anna | last=Pickard}} Cole had another minor role in Primal Scream's 2008 video "Can't Go Back", in which she and other models featured in a horror-style video based on the films of Dario Argento. The models, including Cole, are graphically "murdered" and "meet their ends in rather striking ways" with the aim of looking "hot even when dead".{{cite web|url=http://fashionindie.com/?WG4jQc3p|title=Lily Cole and Alice Dellal are among the victims of "Can't Go Back"|last=Bubble|first=Susie|date=21 July 2008|publisher=Dazeddigital.com|access-date=5 January 2010}} Cole again starred in a music video for Paul McCartney's song "Queenie Eye" featuring a number of actors and musicians including Gary Barlow, James Corden, Jude Law and Johnny Depp.
It was reported in October 2009 that Cole would make her stage debut at the Old Vic Theatre in London's West End at the theatre's annual "24 Hour Plays" held in November, but "scheduling commitments" forced her to pull out.{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/091029-lily-cole-and-24-hour-plays.aspx|title=On with the Show|last=Bumpus|first=Jessica|date=29 October 2009|work=Vogue UK|access-date=6 January 2010|location=London|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091102075518/http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/091029-lily-cole-and-24-hour-plays.aspx|archive-date=2 November 2009|df=dmy-all}} Cole ultimately made her stage début at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge, as Nina in a student production of The Seagull.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8356399/Lily-Cole-appears-in-Cambridge-University-student-play.html|title=Lily Cole appears in Cambridge University student play|date=2 March 2011|newspaper=The Telegraph|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-06-16}}
She appeared in "The Curse of the Black Spot", the third episode of the sixth series of science fiction series Doctor Who, in May 2011. She played a Sea Siren.{{cite news|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a303217/lily-cole-cast-in-doctor-who.html|title=Lily Cole cast in 'Doctor Who'|last=Nissim|first=Mayer|date=11 February 2011|work=Digital Spy|access-date=30 April 2011}} Cole stars in the music video for Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 2013 single "Sacrilege" as a woman burned alive by the many men and women with whom she has had affairs.{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/news/50061-watch-yeah-yeah-yeahs-sacrilege-video/|title=Watch Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Sacrilege" Video, Starring Lily Cole, Announce Tour|work=Pitchfork|access-date=26 March 2013|archive-date=2 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502130403/http://pitchfork.com/news/50061-watch-yeah-yeah-yeahs-sacrilege-video/|url-status=dead}} In 2017, Cole starred in the title role in the three-part docu-drama miniseries Elizabeth I, which aired on Channel 5 from 9 to 23 May.{{cite web |last=O'Grady |first=Sean |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/tv-review-elizabeth-i-battle-for-the-throne-channel-5-a1-britains-longest-road-bbc1-a7725161.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/tv-review-elizabeth-i-battle-for-the-throne-channel-5-a1-britains-longest-road-bbc1-a7725161.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Last night's TV review: Elizabeth I: Battle for the Throne (Channel 5); A1: Britain's Longest Road (BBC1) |work=The Independent |date=9 May 2017 |access-date=5 November 2017}}{{cite web |last=Cumberbatch |first=Aimee Grant |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/elizabeth-1-battle-for-the-throne-everything-you-need-to-know-about-lily-cole-s-new-series-a3534826.html |title=Elizabeth 1: Battle for the Throne – Everything you need to know about Lily Cole's new series |work=London Evening Standard |date=9 May 2017 |access-date=5 November 2017}}
Charity work
=Overview=
Cole supports a variety of humanitarian and environmental causes. She supports the charity WaterAid, speaking for the organisation's "End Water Poverty" campaign, and the Environmental Justice Foundation{{cite web|url=http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/991-lily-cole |title=Lily Cole's Charity Work|publisher=Looktothestars.org|access-date=6 February 2009}} Cole has modelled a T-shirt with the slogan "Save the Future" to fight child labour in the fashion industry for the Environmental Justice Foundation.{{cite web|url=http://www.ejfoundation.org/page345.html |title=Celebrity Support to EJF |access-date=8 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105124600/http://www.ejfoundation.org/page345.html |archive-date= 5 January 2010 }} Most recently Cole put a plaster cast bust of her torso on the auction site eBay to raise money for British telethon charity Comic Relief.{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/2007-03/070323-bust-up.aspx|title=Want to own a piece of Lily Cole? Get bidding for her torso|work=Vogue|publisher=Condé Nast Publications|date=23 March 2007|access-date=6 February 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207035326/http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/2007-03/070323-bust-up.aspx|archive-date=7 December 2008|df=dmy-all}}
In December 2009, Cole attended a party, hosted by Elton John for which guests were asked to design their ideal bar with the designs then sold at auction in aid of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.{{cite news|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23783337-sir-elton-john-and-famous-friends-raise-the-bar-for-hiv.do|title=Sir Elton John and famous friends raise the bar for HIV|last=Cole|first=Olivia|date=14 December 2009|work=Evening Standard|location=London|access-date=4 January 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091217104552/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23783337-sir-elton-john-and-famous-friends-raise-the-bar-for-hiv.do|archive-date=17 December 2009|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/091211-roland-mouret-and-lily-cole-design-.aspx|title=Raising The Bar|last=Bumpus|first=Jessica|date=11 December 2009|work=Vogue|publisher=Condé Nast Publications|access-date=4 January 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091219021704/http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/091211-roland-mouret-and-lily-cole-design-.aspx|archive-date=19 December 2009|df=dmy-all}}
In October 2010, she helped launch the World Land Trust's Emerald for Elephant Exhibition, which was designed to create awareness and raise important funds for the protection of the critically endangered Asian elephant.[https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928006.000-lily-cole-people-and-elephants-can-live-in-harmony.html Lily Cole: People and elephants can live in harmony] New Scientist
In August 2012, she was part of the judging panel at the Festival of Code, held at the culmination of Young Rewired State 2012.
In 2013, PETA cited her efforts to make consumers aware of animal products in cosmetics and declared her to be one of the "Sexiest Vegetarians" of the year."[http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/bishop-cole-sexiest-vegetarians-29874851.html Bishop, Cole Sexiest Vegetarians]", Belfast Telegraph, 30 December 2013.
For the bi-centenary of writer Emily Brontë, The Parsonage Museum, Haworth, has appointed Cole to be its "creative partner" to "commemorate the legacy of one of England's most important, and mysterious, writers".{{cite web|title=Emily Bronte bicentenary events unveiled|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-42385295|website=BBC News|access-date=11 January 2018|date=17 December 2017}}
In 2016 Cole was appointed a [https://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/about/foundling-fellows/ Fellow] of the Foundling Museum in London. In 2018 she co-wrote Balls, a short film exploring connections between the Foundling Hospital story and Emily Brontë's much-loved novel Wuthering Heights. Balls is co-written by Lily Cole and Stacey Gregg, and produced by Kate Wilson at Fury Films. The film has been co-commissioned by the Foundling Museum, Brontë Parsonage Museum and Rapid Response Unit, with support from Arts Council England.
=Environmental campaigning=
In 2005 Cole announced she would no longer model for De Beers after being alerted to the situation of the Kalahari Bushmen being evicted from their lands in Botswana.{{Cite web|title = Supermodel Lily Cole refuses to work for De Beers again|url = http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/858|website = www.survivalinternational.org|access-date = 7 February 2016|first = Survival|last = International}}
Cole wrote the foreword for Tamsin Blanchard's 2007 book Green Is The New Black, a guide to being fashionable while remaining eco-friendly.{{cite web|url=http://www.tamsinblanchard.com|title=Journalist and Writer|publisher=Tamsin Blanchard|access-date=6 February 2009}}
In 2013 it was announced that Cole would receive the Doctor of Letters for her "outstanding contribution to humanitarian and environmental causes" from the chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University, Professor Muhammad Yunus.
Cole was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas at the 2015 general election.{{cite news | url= https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/24/celebrities-sign-statement-support-caroline-lucas-not-green-party | title= Celebrities sign statement of support for Caroline Lucas – but not the Greens | work=The Guardian | location=London | first=Jessica | last=Elgot | date=24 April 2015 | access-date=23 July 2015}}
Business activities
Cole is the founder of Impossible.com, an innovation group and incubator. Cole is also part-owner of a London bookshop{{cite news|last1=Lidbury|first1=Olivia|title=Lily Cole invests in Soho bookshop|url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG10633617/Lily-Cole-invests-in-Soho-bookshop.html|publisher=The Telegraph|date=12 February 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150110073435/http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG10633617/Lily-Cole-invests-in-Soho-bookshop.html|archive-date=10 January 2015|df=dmy-all}} and an advisor to Wikitribune.{{cite web|title=WikiTribune|access-date=25 April 2017|url=https://www.wikitribune.com}}
Cole was involved in creating an environmentally friendly knitwear company, The North Circular, which launched in 2009.{{cite web|title=ABOUT US|url=http://thenorthcircular.com/about-us|access-date = 16 December 2014}} The North Circular products are hand knit in the UK with British yarns, from which 5% of all profits, and all of Cole's, are donated to the Environmental Justice Foundation.{{cite web|url=http://www.beautyandthedirt.com/2009/11/17/the-north-circular/|title=The North Circular|date=17 November 2009|work=Beauty and thedirt.com|access-date=4 January 2010|archive-date=5 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005190716/http://www.beautyandthedirt.com/2009/11/17/the-north-circular/|url-status=dead}} She launched a womenswear range for the company in February 2010.{{cite news|url=http://theglobalherald.com/can-lily-cole-spark-a-revival-of-rare-breed-sheep-farming/2369|title=Can Lily Cole Spark a Revival of Rare Breed Sheep Farming?|last=Haywood|first=Linda|date=23 March 2010|work=The Global Herald|access-date=28 March 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100328200423/http://theglobalherald.com/can-lily-cole-spark-a-revival-of-rare-breed-sheep-farming/2369/|archive-date=28 March 2010|df=dmy-all}}
Personal life
On 28 February 2015, Cole announced she was expecting her first child with her boyfriend, Kwame Ferreira.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11442883/Lily-Cole-announces-she-is-pregnant-with-picture-of-yellow-post-it-note.html|title=Lily Cole announces she is pregnant with picture of yellow post-it note|last=Farmer|first=Ben|date=1 March 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=1 March 2015}} Their daughter was born in September 2015.{{cite news|title=Lily Cole welcomes a baby girl|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/lily-cole-welcomes-a-baby-girl-wylde-cole-ferreira/|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=14 September 2015 |access-date=18 September 2015|last1=Lidbury |first1=Olivia }} In 2021, Cole came out as queer during an interview with The Sunday Times Style.{{cite web | last=Javed | first=Saman | title=Lily Cole comes out as queer and says labels on sexuality are too 'rigid' | website=The Independent | date=August 16, 2021 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/lily-cole-queer-sexuality-lgbt-model-b1903175.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/lily-cole-queer-sexuality-lgbt-model-b1903175.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | access-date=August 18, 2021}} Cole is a pescatarian but eats "mostly vegan".[https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/sustainable-living/lily-cole-sustainability-daily-life-influences-b1845425.html "Lily Cole: My Sustainable Life – 'Please can someone invent teleportation?'"]. independent.co.uk. Retrieved 21 December 2021.[https://www.alainelkanninterviews.com/lily-cole/ "Lily Cole"]. alainelkanninterviews.com. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
Bibliography
- Who Cares Wins (2020, 2023 Hardcover) {{ISBN|978-0-7893-4409-0}}{{Cite web |last=Cole |first=Author Lily |title=Book |url=https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780789344090/ |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=Rizzoli New York |language=en-US}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Film and television |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2007
| Polly | |
| rowspan="3" | 2009
| Rage | Lettuce Leaf | |
| {{sortname|The|Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus}}
| Valentina | |
| Passage
| Tania | Short film |
| rowspan="3" | 2011
| Aline | |
| Doctor Who
| {{sortname|The|Siren|nolink=1}} | Episode: "The Curse of the Black Spot" |
| {{sortname|The|Moth Diaries|dab=film}}
| Ernessa Bloch | |
| rowspan="2" | 2012
| Confession of a Child of the Century | Elsie | |
| Snow White and the Huntsman
| Greta | |
| rowspan="2" | 2013
| {{sortname|The|Zero Theorem}} | Woman in street commercial | |
| Red Shoes
| The dancer | Short film |
| rowspan="3" | 2015
| {{sortname|The|Messenger|dab=2015 horror film}} | Emma | |
| Orion
| | |
| Gravy
| Mimi | |
| 2016
| Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | Herself | |
| rowspan="2" | 2017
| Miniseries; 3 episodes |
| Star Wars: The Last Jedi
| Lovey | |
| rowspan="2" | 2018
| Trish Shirt | |
| Upstart Crow
|Ephie | |
| 2019
| Icons – Artists | Herself | BBC documentary series |
| rowspan="2" | 2022
| Bella | Series 3 |
| {{ill |Hilma (film)|sv|lt=Hilma|italic=yes}}
| Mathilda | |
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Music videos |
| Year
! Title ! Artist |
|---|
| 2007
| "Walk This Way" | Girls Aloud and Sugababes |
| 2012
| "UK Shanty" |
| rowspan="2" | 2013
| "Sacrilege" |
| "Queenie Eye" |
| 2018 |
Notes
{{note|birth|[n 1]|Cole gives her date of birth as 27 December 1987. Several sources, such as [http://nymag.com/fashion/models/lcole/lilycole New York Magazine] and [http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/Lily_Cole Fashion Model Directory], cite 19 May 1988 as her date of birth, however, her birth was registered with the General Registry Office of England and Wales (GRO) three months earlier, in February 1988 and [http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/633020/LILY-LUAHANA-COLE checkcompany.co.uk] confirms December 1987 as her date of birth.}}
References
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External links
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