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 Ella Lily Hyland(1998년생, Carlow, Ireland) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 5 ½ meilės istorijos viename Vilniaus bute, National Theatre Live: Electra/Persona, Silent Roar가 있으며, 그 외에도 블랙 도브, A Thousand Blows, Towards Zero, Storyland, Fifteen-Love, 인트루더, Tall Tales & Murder, Songs of Blood and Destiny, Gilgamesh 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. 특히 2026년에는 National Theatre Live: Electra/Persona에도 참여해서 활동중이다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2026년 National Theatre Live: Electra/Persona에서 Chrysothemis (Anna) 역을 맡았다. 2026년 Tall Tales & Murder에서 Bridget 역을 맡았다. 2025년 Towards Zero에서 Audrey Strange 역을 맡았다.