Lily-Rose Depp facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Lily-Rose Depp
Depp in 2023
Born	Lily-Rose Melody Depp (1999-05-27) 27 May 1999 (age 26) Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Citizenship	France United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2014–present
Parents	Johnny Depp (father) Vanessa Paradis (mother)
Relatives	Alysson Paradis (aunt) Elizabeth Key Grinstead (ninth great-grandmother)

Lily-Rose Melody Depp (born 27 May 1999) is a French and American actress. Born to actors Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, she began her acting career in film with a minor role in Tusk (2014) and pursued a career as a fashion model. She appeared in the period dramas The Dancer (2016) and The King (2019), and the romantic comedy A Faithful Man (2018).

In 2023, Depp starred in the HBO television drama series The Idol and contributed to its soundtrack with her single "One of the Girls", which charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify. She has since starred in the horror film Nosferatu (2024).

Early life

Lily-Rose Melody Depp was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of Paris, on 27 May 1999. She is the daughter of American actor Johnny Depp and French singer/actress Vanessa Paradis. She has a younger brother, Jack (John Christopher Depp III). French actress Alysson Paradis is her aunt. On her father's side she is of primarily English descent, with some French, German and Irish descent as well as African descent through an eighth great-grandmother of her father.

In 2012, after 14 years together, Depp's parents separated and arranged joint custody of her. She divides her time between Los Angeles, Paris, and New York City.

Career

2014–2018: Early work in independent films and modeling

Depp in 2016

Depp made her acting debut in 2014, with a minor role in the horror comedy film Tusk. In 2015, at age 16, Depp became a brand ambassador for French fashion house Chanel in a decision personally overseen by Karl Lagerfeld. She has since ventured into fashion modeling, promoting the brand on the runway and in fashion magazines such as Vogue, Glamour, Elle, i-D, Wonderland, Love, Madame Figaro, W, and V.

In 2016, Depp reprised her Tusk role in the spin-off Yoga Hosers. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2016 to unfavorable critical reception. She portrayed American dancer Isadora Duncan in The Dancer, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category. For her performance in the film, Depp was nominated for Most Promising Actress at the 42nd César Awards and Best Female Revelation at the 22nd Lumières Awards. She also appeared in the film Planetarium alongside Natalie Portman, who handpicked Depp to play her younger sister. In that same year, Depp was made the face of Chanel's iconic fragrance Chanel No. 5 L'Eau.

In 2018, Depp starred opposite Laurent Lafitte in Les Fauves (Savage). The film was premiered in France in October 2018. In the same year, Depp starred in A Faithful Man, directed by Louis Garrel and co-written by Oscar winner Jean-Claude Carrière. The film was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and released in France in December 2018. She received her second nomination for Most Promising Actress at the 44th César Awards.

2019–present: Mainstream films

In 2019, Depp appeared in the Netflix documentary short Period. End of Sentence. alongside Priyanka Chopra. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards. In April 2019, Depp was nominated for the Prix Romy Schneider. She starred alongside her aunt Alysson Paradis in the French independent short film Quel Joli Temps Pour Jouer Ses Vingt-ans, in which she played a young woman grieving the loss of a grandfather. In the historical epic war film The King, Depp appeared as Catherine of Valois opposite Timothée Chalamet as Henry V. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and was released on Netflix in November 2019. Of her performance, Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote, "[Depp] makes her presence felt, for perhaps the first time ever, as Catherine of Valois, whose delicate worldliness matches Henry's", while Rory O'Connor of The Film Stage called it "an excellent cameo".

..... The film was released in the United States to mixed critical reception. She also appeared in Neil Burger's science-fiction thriller Voyagers and the Christmas horror comedy Silent Night. Depp starred alongside George MacKay in Nathalie Biancheri's psychological drama Wolf. The film premiered at TIFF in 2021 to mixed critical reception.

In 2023, Depp made her television debut starring in the HBO drama series The Idol alongside Canadian singer The Weeknd. ..... On her performance, TIME wrote that Depp "brings some tentative gravity to all the sordidness". The series aired on HBO and Max and was cancelled after one season. The single that Depp recorded for the series along The Weeknd and Jennie, "One of the Girls", peaked at number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify.

In 2024, Depp starred as Ellen Hutter, a young woman traumatized by the vampire Count Orlok, in Robert Eggers’ gothic horror film Nosferatu. Terming it a "transfixing performance", The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney added that "the movie belongs to Depp, whose performance is a revelation".

Personal life

Depp in 2017

Depp is bilingual in English and French and has U.S. and French citizenship. She has struggled with and recovered from anorexia.

In August 2015, she posed for iO Tillett Wright's Self-Evident Truths Project, stating she fell somewhere "on the LGBTQA spectrum".

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Depp dated actor Timothée Chalamet for over a year after meeting on the set of The King in 2018. Since January 2023, she has been in a relationship with rapper and singer Danielle Balbuena, also known as 070 Shake. This has been the only relationship that Depp has publicly acknowledged. Depp confirmed the relationship in an Instagram post on May 11, 2023. In October 2024, Depp starred in the music video for 070 Shake's single "Winter Baby / New Jersey Blues".

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Discography

Awards and nominations

See also

In Spanish: Lily-Rose Depp para niños