Actress who played lily on modern family: 59 Photos
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Career. Anderson-Emmons joined the cast of Modern Family in its third season in 2011, when she replaced Ella and Jaden Hiller in the role of Lily Tucker-Pritchett, a Vietnamese-born child adopted by a gay American couple. Her role has been praised for raising cultural diversity awareness.
The award-winning child star is in a band, has a YouTube channel with mum – and still hangs with Sofía Vergara and Jesse Tyler Ferguson. For many, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons will always be Cam and Mitchell's cute, adopted Vietnamese daughter on Modern Family.
She is of mixed ethnicity. Her mother hailing from Seoul, South Korea, and her father is from Illinois, United States. Daughter of Amy Anderson and businessman Kent Emmons, owner of the Smoky Mountain Castle in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Aubrey Anderson-Emmons was just four years old when she became world-famous as sassy and sarcastic Lily in the American comedy Modern Family. It was the actress's first role, replacing Ella and Jaden Hiller in the third season after the twins' mother said they hadn't enjoyed acting.
Lily from Modern Family was sneakily made older in season 3, which improved the sitcom and allowed for character development and storylines. The character of Lily was recast with an older actor, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, after seasons 1 and 2, and it was casually mentioned in season 4 that she was six years old.