Ella Lily Hyland (born 3 June 1998) is an Irish actress.
Early life
From
Carlow
Carlow ( ; ) is the county town of County Carlow, in the south-east of Ireland, from Dublin. At the 2016 census, it had a combined urban and rural population of 24,272.
The River Barrow flows through the town and forms the historic bounda ...
, 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.
Career
Hyland had a lead role alongside
Aidan Turner in the 2023
Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video, also known simply as Prime Video, is an American Video on demand#Subscription models, subscription video on-demand Over-the-top media service, over-the-top Streaming media, streaming and Renting, rental service of Amazon (c ...
tennis based drama series ''
Fifteen-Love
''Fifteen-Love'' is a British drama television series created by Hania Elkington and World Productions, starring Ella Lily Hyland and Aidan Turner. It premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 21 July 2023.
Synopsis
A former tennis prodigy makes an ...
''. Hyland trained for the tennis scenes and was helped on-set by tennis coach and former-pro
Naomi Cavaday
Naomi Kathleen Cavaday (born 24 April 1989) is a British former professional tennis player from Sidcup, Kent. She retired in April 2011 to take up a coaching role with the Lawn Tennis Association. At the time of her retirement, she was the Br ...
.
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
llat the same time". Dónal Lynch in the ''
Irish Independent
The ''Irish Independent'' is an Irish daily newspaper and online publication which is owned by Independent News & Media (INM), a subsidiary of Mediahuis.
The newspaper version often includes glossy magazines.
Traditionally a broadsheet new ...
'' 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." She can be seen in the 2023 Scottish film ''
Silent Roar''.
Hyland has an upcoming role in the
Steven Knight
Steven Knight (born 1 April 1959) is a British screenwriter, film director and film producer. Knight wrote the screenplays for the films ''Closed Circuit'', '' Dirty Pretty Things'', and ''Eastern Promises'', and also wrote and directed the f ...
historical drama series ''
A Thousand Blows''. In October 2023, she was revealed to have joined the cast of ''
Black Doves'', a
Keira Knightley-led series for
Netflix. 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''.
Filmography
References
External links
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Irish television actresses
1998 births
Living people
Actors from County Carlow
Date of birth unknown
21st-century Irish actresses