Ella Lily Hyland

Ella Lily Hyland 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.

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”, 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”. 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.

Hyland has an upcoming role in the Steven Knight 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.