Ella Lily Hyland

Ella Lily Hyland is an Irish actress From Carlow Ireland her grandfather Dinny Hyland was a recordbreaking Irish pole vaulter Her cousin Jamie Hyland is an AllIreland 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 tennisbased drama series FifteenLove Hyland trained for the tennis scenes and was helped onset by tennis coach and formerpro Naomi Cavaday Lucy Mangan in The Guardian described her performance as mesmerising and absolutely superlative displaying many facets of her character dislikable vulnerable griefstricken 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 Knights historical drama series A Thousand Blows 2025 She can also be seen in the BBCs 2025 adaptation of Agatha Christies Towards Zero as Audrey Strange a character Hyland described as twisted nihilistic and hedonistic