---
name: "Ed Lilly"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ed-lilly"
fi1m_id: "ed-lilly"
imdb_id: "nm3604358"
tmdb_id: 2112430
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:54:48.468280+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ed Lilly

## Identity

Ed Lilly

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ed-lilly
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ed-lilly
- **IMDb ID:** nm3604358
- **TMDB ID:** 2112430
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3604358/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2112430

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3604358/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2112430

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Industry*](https://film.one/tv/industry.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ed Lilly is a British director and screenwriter. His debut feature film *VS.* (2018) world premiered at the London Film Festival, received a theatrical release and was later acquired by Netflix. He received a Writers' Guild of Great Britain nomination for Best Debut Screenplay and was long-listed in the British Independent Film Awards categories for Debut Director and Debut Screenwriter. He was previously named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow.

In television, Lilly has directed episodes of *Industry* (2020), for which he also served as co-executive producer on the first season, *The Rising* (2022), *Tell Me Lies* (2022–) and *Surface* (2022–).

*Sources: imdb.com, edlilly.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Industry* (2020), Fi1m 76, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/industry.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Tell Me Lies* (2022), series, Director
- *Surface* (2022), series, Director
- *Industry* (2020), series, Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/industry.md)
- *VS.* (2018), Director, Screenplay

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/ed-lilly