Lily Hevesh

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Lily Hevesh
Personal information
Born1998or1999(age 24–25) [1]
China
NationalityAmerican
OccupationDomino artist
Website www.hevesh5.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013–present
Subscribers3.84 million [2]
Total views1.64 billion [2]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2014
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers2017
Last updated: May 8, 2023

Lily Hevesh is an American domino artist and YouTuber working under the channel name Hevesh5.

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Hevesh is the subject of the documentary film Lily Topples the World directed by Jeremy Workman and executive produced by actress Kelly Marie Tran. [1]

Personal life

Hevesh is a Chinese-born adoptee from Sandown, New Hampshire, and has two siblings, Alissa and Matt. [3] [4] She was given her first set of dominoes at age 10. [5]

Hevesh attended Timberlane Regional High School. [4] [6] She attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she was a "Design, Innovation, and Society" major, [7] but left after less than a year to pursue domino art full-time. [8] She currently lives in Massachusetts, west of Boston. [3] She hopes that her work would encourage more children to get involved in STEAM fields. [9]

Career

YouTube

In 2009, at the age of 10, [1] Hevesh created a YouTube channel called Hevesh5, a reference to her being the fifth member of the family. As of March 2021, her YouTube channel has 3 million subscribers and 1 billion views. [1] Her first viral video, "INSANE Domino Tricks!", was posted in 2013 and had over 163 million views in March 2021. [1]

Hevesh posted anonymously for 6.5 years before revealing her identity in 2015 via a YouTube video. [1]

In December 2018, YouTube used Hevesh's video "A Merry Domino Christmas" on their Twitter account without giving Hevesh credit. After Hevesh tweeted criticism of YouTube for co-opting her video for promotional purposes without crediting her, YouTube publicly apologized and tweeted credit for the video. [10] [11]

Hevesh worked with Endemol Shine North America to create a competitive reality show around building domino effect chains tentatively called Domino Effect, in the same vein as Endemol's Lego Masters , announced in August 2020. [12] In March 2021, RTL 4 Netherlands and France's M6 ordered local versions of the domino competition format created by Hevesh and Endemol. [13] [14]

Domino set

In 2020, Hevesh and Spin Master launched H5 Domino Creations at the North American International Toy Fair in New York City. [15] [16] The set comes with 100 improved dominoes which Hevesh described as being "specially made for toppling". [17]

Domino art

She was approached by Campbell Soup Company in 2013 to create a commercial for them. [1] Since 2014, Hevesh's domino art has been featured at the annual Brattleboro Museum and Art Center Domino Toppling Extravaganza. [18]

She has since created ads for companies—such as Prudential Financial, Ford Motors, and Honda [19] — and films such as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Despicable Me. [6] She was part of the team commissioned to set up dominoes for a scene in Collateral Beauty . [8] [20] In 2017, Hevesh was hired by Marvel to create a Spider-Man-inspired domino art piece. [21]

Lily Topples the World

In 2021, a documentary about Hevesh titled Lily Topples the World premiered at the virtual South by Southwest, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the Documentary Feature Film Competition. [22] Soon after, the film won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2021 San Francisco International Film Festival. [23] It was directed by Jeremy Workman. [1] Lily Topples The World was produced by Robert Lyons and executive produced by actress Kelly Marie Tran in her first producing role. [24]

Awards

Hevesh was listed on the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the category "Art & Style". [25] She was one of the United States Junior Chamber's Ten Outstanding Young Americans in 2022. [26]

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