Lily McInerny | |
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 McInerny at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival | |
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| Education | Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2022–present |
| Known for | Palm Trees and Power Lines |
Lily McInerny (born December 13, 1998) is an American actress. She was nominated for Best Breakthrough Performance at the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards for her role in the 2022 film Palm Trees and Power Lines .
From New York City, [1] [2] McInerny began acting at elementary school when she was eight years old. Aged thirteen, she successfully auditioned for Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. After high school she attended college in Vermont studying for a degree in performing arts. [3]
In 2022, McInerny was seen in Palm Trees and Power Lines which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and later saw her nominated for Best Breakthrough Performance at the 38th Independent Spirit Awards. [4] She was nineteen years-old when she first read for the part and early twenties when filming, playing the part of a seventeen year-old. [5] Prior to performing in the role she sought a therapist to help her with the emotional aspects of the storyline, and the pressure of her first professional role. [6] She said that she “couldn’t have asked for a more special film to be my first”. [7] McInerny was said by Rolling Stone to have “played to perfection” her role. [8]
In November 2022 she made her New York stage debut in Bess Wohl written play Camp Siegfried, directed by David Cromer at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theater. [9] She also appeared as Macy in Hulu original series Tell Me Lies . [10]
In 2023 she was cast in a contemporary adaptation of the 1958 Françoise Sagan novel Bonjour Tristesse , appearing alongside Claes Bang and Chloë Sevigny. [11]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2022 | Palm Trees and Power Lines | Lea | Nominated - Independent Spirit Award for Best Breakthrough Performance |
| 2024 | Bonjour Tristesse | Cécile |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2022 | Tell Me Lies | Macy | 2 episodes |
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Notes |
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| 2022 | Camp Siegfried | Her | Second Stage Theater | Off-Broadway |
| 2024 | The Animal Kingdom | Sofia | The Connelly Theater |
Chloë Stevens Sevigny is an American actress. Known for her work in independent films, often appearing in controversial or experimental features, Sevigny is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for an Academy Award.
Françoise Sagan was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), which was written when she was a teenager.
Bonjour Tristesse is a 1958 British-American Technicolor film in CinemaScope, directed and produced by Otto Preminger from a screenplay by Arthur Laurents based on the novel of the same name by Françoise Sagan. The film stars Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Mylène Demongeot and Geoffrey Horne, and features Juliette Gréco, Walter Chiari, Martita Hunt and Roland Culver. It was released by Columbia Pictures. This film had color and black-and-white sequences, a technique unusual for the 1950s, but widely used in silent movies and early sound movies.
Bonjour Tristesse is a novel by Françoise Sagan. Published in 1954, when the author was only 18, it was an overnight sensation. The title is derived from a poem by Paul Éluard, "À peine défigurée", which begins with the lines "Adieu tristesse/Bonjour tristesse..." An English-language film adaptation was released in 1958, directed by Otto Preminger.
A Certain Smile was originally published in French as Un certain sourire by the Paris publisher Juillard in 1956. It was the second novel by Françoise Sagan and was written in two months. Two translations into English then followed in 1956. That by Anne Green was published by E.P. Dutton in New York and that by Irene Ash was published by John Murray in London, followed in the same year by a Penguin Books paperback edition. The story is related by a Parisian student who has an experimental love affair with a much older man.
Trees Lounge is a 1996 American comedy-drama film and the debut of Steve Buscemi as writer and director. It was produced by Brad Wyman and Chris Hanley and features a large ensemble cast of actors, including Buscemi, Anthony LaPaglia, Chloë Sevigny, and Samuel L. Jackson. The film's black humor is based on examination of characters' self-destructive behavior, revolving around their shared hangout of the eponymous bar and lounge.
Demonlover is a 2002 French neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Olivier Assayas, and starring Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny, and Gina Gershon. The plot focuses on the entanglement between various corporations vying for the financial control of an interactive 3-D hentai company, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.
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Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson, known professionally as Lily James, is an English actress. She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and began her career in the British television series Just William (2010). Following a supporting role in the period drama series Downton Abbey (2012–2015), her breakthrough was the title role in the fantasy film Cinderella (2015).
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Chloë Sevigny is an American actress and director who made her film debut in the controversial 1995 drama Kids, portraying a teenage girl in inner-city New York who discovers she is HIV-positive. She went on to appear in several independent features, including two directed by her then-boyfriend, Harmony Korine : Gummo (1997) and Julien Donkey-Boy (1998), before obtaining a lead role as Lana Tisdel in Boys Don't Cry (1999), a fact-based drama about the murder of trans man Brandon Teena. The film earned her numerous accolades, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Marie-Louise Belarbi was a French-Moroccan bookseller, publisher, editor, and writer. Born in France, she spent most of her life in Morocco, where she established a popular bookstore, Carrefour des Livres, as well as a publishing house for French, Moroccan and Maghreb literature. She published works by several notable writers, including Françoise Sagan, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Driss Chraïbi, Abdellah Taïa and others. She also wrote two books, a novel and a memoir. In 2001, she was awarded the distinction of an officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contributions to publishing and literature.
Bonjour Tristesse is a 2024 film starring Chloë Sevigny, Lily McInerny and Claes Bang. It is an adaptation of the 1954 novel by Françoise Sagan. It is adapted and directed by Durga Chew-Bose in her feature length directorial debut.
Aberdeen is a Canadian drama film directed by Ryan Cooper and Eva Thomas, and released in 2024. The film stars Gail Maurice as the titular Aberdeen, an Indigenous Canadian woman who moves to Winnipeg after being forced to leave her home community as a climate refugee.
Seeds is a 2024 Canadian comedy thriller film, written and directed by Kaniehtiio Horn. The film stars Horn as Ziggy, a young Mohawk woman trying to establish herself as a social media influencer; after she is offered a contract with a seed company, she is summoned home by her cousin to housesit while her family is out of town, only to have to battle someone who is trying to steal crops from the family garden.
Really Happy Someday is a Canadian drama film directed by J Stevens, and released in 2024. The film stars Breton Lalama as Z, a trans man musical theatre actor who unexpectedly botches an audition for a role due to the effects of his gender transition on his singing voice, and must work with a vocal coach to retrain himself to sing in his new register.
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