She was cast as Juliet in the Garrick Theatre production of Romeo and Juliet in 2016. This performance got her nominated for a 2017 Whatsonstage.com Award in the “Best Actress in a Play” category.
Lily James believes in women empowerment and feels good to see actresses who are healthy and curvy.
She went to audition for Anastasia, the stepsister of Cinderella but got the lead role in Cinderella.
She has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for her role as Lady Rose MacClare in Downton Abbey.
Hayley Atwell, her on-screen mother in the movie Cinderella, shares the same birth date as Lily.