Lily James

Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson (Born April 5, 1989) is a English actress who plays Elizabeth Bennet on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. She is perhaps best known for her role as Lady Rose Aldridge in Downton Abbey. James has also been featured in other movies.

Biography
Lily James was born on April 5, 1989 in Esher, Surrey, England, UK as Lily Chloe Ninette Thompson. Her father James (Jamie) is a musician and her mother Ninette is an actress. She has two brothers. Her grandmother, Helen Hortan, is an American actress.

She began her education at Arts Educational School in Tring and subsequently went on to study acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, graduating in 2010.

Personal Life
It was confirmed in 2015 that Lily James is in a relationship with her Pride and Prejudice and Zombies co-star Matt Smith, famous for playing the Eleventh Doctor in the long-running show Doctor Who.

Trivia

 * Studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London graduating in 2010.


 * Was on the Musical Theatre Course at The Arts Educational School, Tring Park.


 * Although she played Hayley Atwell's daughter in Cinderella (2015), she is only seven years her junior in real life.
 * She has Scottish, English, French, and more distant German, ancestry.
 * Lily's paternal grandmother was American actress Helen Horton, who lived in England with Lily's British grandfather, Hamish Thomson.
 * Lily's maternal grandmother was of French origin.
 * She has the same birthday (not the same year of birth) with her on-screen mother in Cinderella, Hayley Atwell.
 * She is a sixth cousin of U.S. President George Bush, through her American grandmother. Lily's four times great-grandfather, Stephen Horton, was the brother of the president's four times great-grandmother, Sarah Horton (their parents were Comfort Horton and Joanna Wood). Lily is thus a sixth cousin, once removed, of the President's sons, President George W. Bush and Governor Jeb Bush.
 * She is a mezzo-soprano.
 * Has 2 brothers.