--- name: "Elizabeth Lail" canonical: "https://film.one/person/elizabeth-lail" fi1m_id: "elizabeth-lail" imdb_id: "nm5634768" tmdb_id: 1368507 wikidata_id: "Q18207144" roles: ["Actor"] born: "25 March 1992" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 60 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-23T12:01:25.198722+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." --- # Elizabeth Lail ## Identity Elizabeth Lail - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/elizabeth-lail - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** elizabeth-lail - **IMDb ID:** nm5634768 - **TMDB ID:** 1368507 - **Wikidata ID:** Q18207144 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Lail, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18207144, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5634768/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1368507 Actor. Born 25 March 1992 in Williamson County, Texas, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 25 March 1992, Williamson County, Texas, USA - **Active:** 2011–present - **Also known as:** Елізабет Лейл, 伊丽莎白·莱尔, الیزابت لیل, エリザベス・レイル, 엘리자베스 라일, Elizabeth Dean Lail - **Average Fi1m score:** 60, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 68 (2), 2020s 42 (1) - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 2, Crime 1, Horror 1, Mystery 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1, Thriller 1 - **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $297m across 1 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Lail, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18207144, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5634768/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1368507 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*You*](https://film.one/tv/you.md) (72) - **Peacock:** [*Five Nights at Freddy's*](https://film.one/film/five-nights-at-freddys.md) (42) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Elizabeth Lail > Elizabeth Lail makes the ordinary person caught in a thriller worth caring about. We value her work in *You*; *Five Nights at Freddy's* shows how little room she has when a role chiefly supplies explanations. The bookshop meeting in *You* (2018) lets Elizabeth Lail's Guinevere Beck enter a familiar romantic scene before Joe's behaviour makes it alarming. She gives Beck the credibility the apparent courtship needs, opposite Penn Badgley's dangerously charming lead. We were unsettled by how much he could learn from her social media without ever asking her a question. Lail makes Beck feel like someone with a life beyond his interest in her. Without that, the programme's surveillance would be a clever thriller device, and considerably less uncomfortable. Her breakthrough came in fantasy, playing Anna in *Once Upon a Time* (2014), before a television lead in *Dead of Summer* (2016) and the move into feature horror with *Countdown* (2019). Yet *Mack & Rita* (2022), a comedy opposite Diane Keaton, is a useful reminder not to confuse familiar casting with the whole actor. These parts suggest more possibilities than the recurring assignment of a vulnerable young woman facing danger might imply. *Five Nights at Freddy's* (2023) gives her far less to work with as the police officer Vanessa. In Emma Tammi's film, Lail delivers much of the exposition while standing in doorways, a job that offers few opportunities to make Vanessa interesting. Josh Hutcherson finds some warmth in Mike's scenes with his sister Abby, but Lail is too often occupied with explanations. We cannot blame her for the writing, though there is little here to rival her contribution to *You*. We would like to see her given more scenes in which she can respond to another actor rather than explain the situation. Badgley is the more conspicuous presence in *You*, helped by a voice-over that turns courtship into surveillance, but the apparent romance needs both actors. The programme's blunt social satire and occasionally hurried plotting keep our enthusiasm in check. Start there for Lail, with patience for a thriller that sometimes moves on just when it has found something worth asking. ## Biography Elizabeth Lail is an American actress. She trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, graduating with a BFA in Drama in 2014. She is known for her roles as Anna in the ABC series *Once Upon a Time* (2014), Guinevere Beck in the Netflix series *You* (2018–2025), and Vanessa in the film *Five Nights at Freddy's* (2023) and its sequel (2025). Lail has also appeared in series including *Dead of Summer* (2016), *The Blacklist* (2017), *Gossip Girl* (2021), *Ordinary Joe* (2021–2022) and *Elsbeth* (2024–2025), and in the films *Countdown* (2019) and *Mack & Rita* (2022). In 2021 she married paediatric dentist Nieku Manshadi. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Five Nights at Freddy's* (2023), Fi1m 42, as Vanessa — [page](https://film.one/film/five-nights-at-freddys.md) - *You* (2018), Fi1m 72, as Guinevere Beck — [page](https://film.one/tv/you.md) - *Once Upon a Time* (2011), Fi1m 65, as Anna — [page](https://film.one/tv/once-upon-a-time.md) ## Complete filmography (17) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Five Nights at Freddy's 2* (2025), as Vanessa - *Elsbeth* (2024), series, as Quinn Powers - *Five Nights at Freddy's* (2023), as Vanessa — Fi1m 42, [page](https://film.one/film/five-nights-at-freddys.md) - *Gonzo Girl* (2023), as Devaney Peltier - *Mack & Rita* (2022), as Mack - *Ordinary Joe* (2021), series, as Jenny Banks - *Gossip Girl* (2021), series, as Lola Morgan - *Unintended* (2019), as Lea - *Countdown* (2019), as Quinn Harris - *You* (2018), series, as Guinevere Beck — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/you.md) - *The Good Fight* (2017), series, as Emily Chapin - *Dead of Summer* (2016), series, as Amy Hughes - *Without* (2014), as Emily - *The Blacklist* (2013), series, as Natalie Luca — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-blacklist.md) - *Once Upon a Time* (2011), series, as Anna — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/once-upon-a-time.md) - *Model Airplane* (2011), as Anna - *Five Nights at Freddy's 3*, as Vanessa ## Gallery - ![Elizabeth Lail on the sets of Once Upon A Time on 9 October, 2014](https://film.one/media/person/15640/gallery-edb714ab1cdc.jpg) Elizabeth Lail on the sets of Once Upon A Time on 9 October, 2014 — opustwelve, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Elizabeth_Lail_on_the_sets_of_Once_Upon_A_Time.jpg/1280px-Elizabeth_Lail_on_the_sets_of_Once_Upon_A_Time.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Elizabeth Lail](https://film.one/media/person/15640/gallery-6b06bdd9922a.jpg) Elizabeth Lail — opustwelve, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Elizabeth_Lail_on_the_sets_of_Once_Upon_A_Time_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Elizabeth_Lail_on_the_sets_of_Once_Upon_A_Time_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Elizabeth Lail](https://film.one/media/person/15640/gallery-a0300716e930.jpg) Elizabeth Lail — Image via TMDB - ![Elizabeth Lail](https://film.one/media/person/15640/gallery-d5b6a08d9a77.jpg) Elizabeth Lail — Image via TMDB - ![Elizabeth Lail](https://film.one/media/person/15640/gallery-54cc8040aa07.jpg) Elizabeth Lail — Image via TMDB - ![Elizabeth Lail](https://film.one/media/person/15640/gallery-b175d68b43d3.jpg) Elizabeth Lail — Image via TMDB - ![Elizabeth Lail](https://film.one/media/person/15640/gallery-b55722501985.jpg) Elizabeth Lail — Image via TMDB - ![Elizabeth Lail](https://film.one/media/person/15640/gallery-faaa1436dd44.jpg) Elizabeth Lail — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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