Lily McInerny

From New York City,https://www.flaunt.com/post/lily-mcinerny-the-promenade-issue{{Cite web|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/five-breakout-actors-fall-fashion-preview|website=Vogue.com|accessdate=May 16, 2023|title= Five Breakout Actors, Dressed to the Nines |first=Marley|last=Marius|date=July 19, 2022}} McInerny began acting at elementary school when she was eight years old. Aged thirteen, she successfully auditioned for Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. After high school she attended college in Vermont studying for a degree in performing arts.{{Cite web|url=https://flaunt.com/post/lily-mcinerny-the-promenade-issue|website=Flaunt.com|last=McClain|first=Audra|accessdate=May 16, 2023|title= LILY MCINERNY WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T BLINK}}

In 2022, McInerny was seen in Palm Trees and Power Lines which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and later saw her nominated for Best Breakthrough Performance at the 38th Independent Spirit Awards.{{Cite web|first=Kevin|last=Ponce|accessdate=May 16, 2023|date=March 7, 2023|url=https://minivmagazine.com/get-ready-with-actress-lily-mcinerny-for-the-independent-spirit-awards/|title= Get Ready With Actress Lily Mcinerny For The Independent Spirit Awards!|website=Minivmagazine.com}} She was nineteen years old when she first read for the part and early twenties when filming, playing the part of a seventeen-year-old.{{Cite web|website=The Guardian|accessdate=May 16, 2023|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/27/palm-trees-and-power-lines-sundance-jamie-dack-grooming|first=Adrian|last=Horton|date=February 27, 2023|title=This is not unique at all’: inside a devastating film about sexual grooming}} Prior to performing in the role she sought a therapist to help her with the emotional aspects of the storyline, and the pressure of her first professional role.{{Cite web|url=https://cinemafemme.com/2022/01/28/sundance-2022-interview-director-jamie-dack-and-star-lily-mcinerny-on-their-powerful-feature-debut-palm-trees-and-power-lines/|website=Cinema Femme|title=Sundance 2022 Interview: Director Jamie Dack and star Lily McInerny on their powerful feature debut “Palm Trees and Power Lines”|date=January 28, 2022|first=Rebecca|last=Martin|accessdate=May 16, 2023}} She said that she “couldn’t have asked for a more special film to be my first”.{{Cite web|accessdate=May 16, 2023|title= Tragically Common: Jamie Dack, Lily McInerny and Jonathan Tucker on Palm Trees and Power Lines|first=Matt|last=Fagerholm|date=February 27, 2023|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/tragically-common-jamie-dack-lily-mcinerny-and-jonathan-tucker-on-palm-trees-and-power-lines|website=Rogerebert.com}} McInerny was said by Rolling Stone to have “played to perfection” her role.{{Cite web|website=Rolling Stone|title=Inside the Most Disturbing Movie of the Year (So Far)|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/palm-trees-and-power-lines-most-disturbing-sex-trafficking-jamie-dack-lily-mcinerny-jonathan-tucker-1234689628/|first=Marlow|last=Stern|date=March 5, 2023}}

In November 2022 she made her New York stage debut in Bess Wohl written play Camp Siegfried, directed by David Cromer at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theater.{{Cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Interview-CAMP-SIEGFRIEDs-Lily-McInerny-Talks-Transition-From-Screen-to-Stage-in-Her-New-York-City-Theater-Debut-20221115|website=Broadway World|title= Interview: CAMP SIEGFRIED's Lily McInerny Talks Transition From Screen to Stage in Her New York City Theater Debut|first=Chloe|last=Rabinowitz|date=November 15, 2022}} She also appeared as Macy in Hulu original series Tell Me Lies.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/tell-me-lies-cast-characters-hulu/|website=The Wrap|title=‘Tell Me Lies’ Cast and Character Guide: Who’s Who in the Steamy Adaptation? (Photos)|accessdate=May 16, 2023|first=Loree|last=Seitz |date=September 14, 2022}}

In 2023 she was cast in a contemporary adaptation of the 1958 Françoise Sagan novel

Bonjour Tristesse, appearing alongside Claes Bang and Chloë Sevigny.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2023/05/chloe-sevigny-claes-bang-lily-mcinerny-bonjour-tristesse-movie-cannes-1235367992|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516145417/https://deadline.com/2023/05/chloe-sevigny-claes-bang-lily-mcinerny-bonjour-tristesse-movie-cannes-1235367992/|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 16, 2023|title= Chloë Sevigny, Claes Bang, Lily McInerny & Nailia Harzoune Lead Adaptation Of Françoise Sagan’s Classic Novel ‘Bonjour Tristesse’; South Of France Shoot Underway — Cannes Market|first=

Andreas |last=Wiseman |first2=Melanie |last2=Goodfellow|date=May 16, 2023 |accessdate=May 16, 2023}}

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