| Ella Lily Hyland | |
| Birth Date: | 20 November 1998 |
| Birth Place: | Carlow, Ireland |
| Occupation: | Actress |
| Years Active: | 2019–present |
| Television: | Fifteen-Love |
Ella Lily Hyland (born 3 June 1998) is an Irish actress.
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. Hyland was a graduate of The Lir Academy in Dublin.[1] [2]
Hyland had a lead role alongside Aidan Turner in the 2023 Amazon Prime Video tennis based drama series Fifteen-Love.[3] Hyland trained for the tennis scenes and was helped on-set by tennis coach and former-pro Naomi Cavaday.[4] Lucy Mangan in The Guardian described her performance as "mesmerising" and "absolutely superlative", because she was able to display "many facets" of her character – "dislikable, vulnerable, grief-stricken, a case of forced maturity and arrested development [all] at the same time".[5] 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."[6] She can be seen in the 2023 Scottish film Silent Roar.[7] [8]
Hyland has an upcoming role in the Steven Knight historical drama series A Thousand Blows.[9] In October 2023, she was revealed to have joined the cast of Black Doves, a Keira Knightley-led series for Netflix.[10] In June 2024, she was one of several actors and actresses announced as being part of the cast of the BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero.[11] From September through October 2024, Hyland portrayed ‘Grania’ in the revival of the Lady Gregory play in the Abbey Theatre, making her Abbey debut.
| Denotes works that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Intruder | Mia | Miniseries; 1 episode | |
| 2023 | Fifteen-Love | Justine Pearce | ||
| Silent Roar | Sas | |||
| Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania | Emma | |||
| A Thousand Blows | Marianne Goodson | Completed | ||
| Black Doves | Williams | Post-production | ||
| Towards Zero | Audrey Strange | Filming |