Ella Lily Hyland

Ella Lily Hyland is an Irish actress.

Early life 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. A member of the County Carlow Youth Theatre Group and the National Youth Theatre, in 2015 she appeared at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin in Salt Mountain by Carmel Winters. She was a graduate of The Lir Academy in Dublin.

Career Hyland had a lead role alongside Aidan Turner in the 2023 Amazon Prime Video tennis-based drama series Fifteen-Love. Hyland trained for the tennis scenes and was helped on-set by tennis coach and former-pro Naomi Cavaday. Lucy Mangan in The Guardian described her performance as "mesmerising" and "absolutely superlative", displaying "many facets" of her character – "dislikable, vulnerable, grief-stricken, a case of forced maturity and arrested development [all] at the same time". 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." She can be seen in the 2023 Scottish film Silent Roar.

In 2024, she featured in the Netflix series Black Doves led by Keira Knightley; the Evening Standard described her as "the breakout star" of the series. She can also be seen in the BBC's 2025 adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero, as Audrey Strange, a character Hyland described as "twisted, nihilistic, and hedonistic".

Filmography Film Year Title Role NotesRef. 2019 Partner in Crime Young Alana Short film 2021 My Box and Me Clementine Short film 2023 Silent Roar Sas Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania Emma

Television Year Title Role NotesRef. 2021 Intruder Mia Miniseries; episode 3 2023 Fifteen-Love Justine Pearce Lead role; episodes 1–6 Storyland Lisa Series 11; episode 1: "Wrapped" 2024 Black Doves Williams Series 1; episodes 1–6 2025 A Thousand Blows Marianne Goodson Episodes 1–6 Towards Zero Audrey Strange Miniseries; episodes 1–3 TBA Tall Tales & Murder TBAFilming