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Ella Lily Hyland

Ella Lily Hyland

Actor · Born June 3, 1998 (28) · Carlow, Ireland

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. 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. 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. In September 2024, Hyland made her Abbey Theatre debut playing the titular character in the Lady Gregory play Grania, which ran until the following month Hyland has a role in Steven Knight's historical drama series A Thousand Blows (2025). 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

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
June 3, 1998 (28)
From
Carlow, Ireland
Works as
Actor
Titles
6 on MovieCove · 12 credits in all
Links
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Known for

TMDB popularity, last 63 days to Oct 26Up 80% in 30 days

What are Ella Lily Hyland's films like?

Across a limited sample of 4 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Morality.

Themes

share of theme weight
Bonds
45%
Morality
27%
Power
14%
Self
9%
Ideas
5%
Romantic love2 titles, browse their movies with this themeBetrayal2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

Roles they play

2 analyzed roles

Moods and endings

endings shown from 5 titles

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
3
Contemplative
1
Melancholic
1
Warm
1
Cold
1
Other
1

How their films linger

Thought-provoking2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Ella Lily Hyland's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 5 of their 6 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on BritBox (2).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Ella Lily Hyland's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

12 credits, 6 with a MovieCove page.

  • National Theatre Live: Electra/Persona (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    as Chrysothemis (Reader)

  • Towards Zero(2025)

    Show 3 episodes · as Audrey Strange

    Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all shows

  • A Thousand Blows(2024)

    Show 2 episodes · as Marianne Goodson

    Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows

  • Silent Roar (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    as Sas

  • Black Doves(2024)

    Show 6 episodes · as Williams

    Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all shows

  • Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania(2023)

    as Emma

    Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films

  • Fifteen-Love(2023)

    Show 6 episodes · as Justine Pearce

    Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all shows

  • Songs of Blood and Destiny (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Actor

  • Intruder(2021)

    Show 1 episode · as Mia

    Midcredits score: 2nd percentile of all shows

  • Storyland (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    Show 1 episode · as Lisa

  • Gilgamesh (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Shamhat

  • Tall Tales & Murder (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Show 1 episode · Actor

Career shape

Star power in the 1st percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 12 titles, 10 of them dated from 2009 to 2026.

Biggest box office

Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania (2023)

$19K worldwide

Highest rated

Black Doves (2024)

Midcredits 61st

Film career

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting12 of 12: 12 only acting, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score45th

By decade

2000s1 · acting2020s9 · acting

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.