---
name: "Lily Sullivan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lily-sullivan"
fi1m_id: "lily-sullivan"
imdb_id: "nm4591498"
tmdb_id: 1186659
wikidata_id: "Q19662510"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 September 1993"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 56
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-24T20:32:39.210665+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."
---

# Lily Sullivan

## Identity

Lily Sullivan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lily-sullivan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lily-sullivan
- **IMDb ID:** nm4591498
- **TMDB ID:** 1186659
- **Wikidata ID:** Q19662510
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Sullivan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19662510, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4591498/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1186659

Actor. Born 8 September 1993 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 September 1993, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Also known as:** Lily Jayne Sullivan
- **Average Fi1m score:** 56, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 44 (1), 2020s 62 (2)
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 2 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Thriller 3, Horror 2, Adventure 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $149m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Sullivan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19662510, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4591498/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1186659

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Evil Dead Rise*](https://film.one/film/evil-dead-rise.md) (72)
- **Apple TV:** [*Jungle*](https://film.one/film/jungle.md) (44)

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

## Fi1m on Lily Sullivan

> Lily Sullivan is at her best holding something back: a shoulder kept a fraction too still, an answer that arrives a beat too soon. Horror keeps hiring her, and it has so far used about half of what she can do.

In *Soulm8te* (2026) Lily Sullivan plays a dead wife and the machine a widower buys to replace her, and the trick is how little she changes between the two. Sara, in the past, is loose and quick and a little careless with her husband. Lydia, the android, holds her shoulders a fraction too still and answers a fraction too promptly, and that is the whole of the difference. Most actors handed a robot go for the blank stare. Sullivan goes for good manners, and the film's best scenes are the ones in which David Rysdahl's widower stops noticing. She has said, "I wanted you to feel the silicone as much as possible", and we did, mostly through how polite it was.

The career behind that is short and has moved fast. She began at school, with a supporting part in *Mental* (2012) found through an open audition, and spent the middle of the decade in Australian features and television, with a recurring role in the American series *Camp*. The turn came in 2018, with television leads in *Romper Stomper* and *Picnic at Hanging Rock*, where she was Miranda Reid. Since 2022 the work has been genre and mostly lead: a solo performance in the one-location sci-fi thriller *Monolith* (2023), then *Evil Dead Rise* the same year, then *Soulm8te*, and a second film for Lee Cronin, *The Mummy* (2026).

*Evil Dead Rise* is the bigger film and the smaller part. Cronin casts her as Beth, a guitar technician who turns up at her sister's condemned Los Angeles flat on the wrong night. She is capable and dry, and the picture belongs to Alyssa Sutherland, who does the possession; the script gives Beth a piece of news of her own in the first scene and then forgets it for an hour, and Sullivan has to carry the forgetting. That is the pattern so far. Horror hires her for stamina, the running and the screaming and the long close-up, and she supplies it without fuss or excess. What she does better is smaller: the beat before a reaction, the reply that comes too soon. Lydia unsettled us more than anything in the *Evil Dead* film did, and the reason is that Sullivan never once let her do a thing a machine would not.

Cronin is the one director who has come back for her, and *The Mummy* will tell us whether he has found a part that uses the stillness as well as the stamina. Until then, *Soulm8te* is the one to click on: not for the film, which we did not much like, but for her, and for the two women in it who are nearly the same person.

## Biography

Lily Sullivan is an Australian actress. She was born on 8 September 1993 in Brisbane, Queensland.

She made her feature film debut as Coral in the 2012 comedy-drama *Mental*. Subsequent roles include Amie in *Jungle* (2017), Miranda Reid in the 2018 television series *Picnic at Hanging Rock*, The Interviewer in *Monolith* (2022), and Beth in the 2023 horror film *Evil Dead Rise*. She has also appeared in *I Met a Girl* (2020) and the series *Rake* (2010).

Sullivan received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Young Actor for her performance in *Mental*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Soulm8te* (2026), Fi1m 53, as Sara / Lydia — [page](https://film.one/film/soulm8te.md)
- *Evil Dead Rise* (2023), Fi1m 72, as Beth — [page](https://film.one/film/evil-dead-rise.md)
- *Jungle* (2017), Fi1m 44, as Amie — [page](https://film.one/film/jungle.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *Soulm8te* (2026), as Sara / Lydia — Fi1m 53, [page](https://film.one/film/soulm8te.md)
- *Lee Cronin's The Mummy* (2026), as Miss Mills
- *Forgive Us All* (2025), as Rory
- *Lunacy* (2024), Actor
- *Monolith* (2023), as The Interviewer
- *Evil Dead Rise* (2023), as Beth — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/evil-dead-rise.md)
- *I Met a Girl* (2020), as Lucy
- *Barkskins* (2020), series, as Delphine
- *Dark Place* (2019), Actor
- *Killer Native* (2019), as Sally
- *Picnic at Hanging Rock* (2018), series, as Miranda Reid
- *Romper Stomper* (2018), series, as Petra
- *The Other Guy* (2017), series, as Charlie
- *Jungle* (2017), as Amie — Fi1m 44, [page](https://film.one/film/jungle.md)
- *Sucker* (2015), as Sarah
- *Galore* (2013), as Laura
- *Camp* (2013), series, as Marina Barker
- *Party Time Party Time* (2013), as Sheilah
- *Mental* (2012), as Coral
- *Rake* (2010), series, as Michelle
- *The Engagement Party*, Actor
- *Nothing, Number 2*, as Content Creator

## Gallery

- ![Lily Sullivan](https://film.one/media/person/21213/gallery-731d8687b21a.jpg) Lily Sullivan — Sean Dudley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Lily_Sullivan_Evil_Dead_Rise_-_SXSW_2023_Panel_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![An image from SXSW that I took when viewing the panel in person. It features the producer of the film, Rob Tapert, the director, Lee Cronin, producer Sam Raimi, (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/21213/gallery-801ccb89277b.jpg) An image from SXSW that I took when viewing the panel in person. It features the producer of the film, Rob Tapert, the director, Lee Cronin, producer Sam Raimi, (2023) — Sean Dudley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Evil_Dead_Rise_-_SXSW_2023_Panel.jpg/1280px-Evil_Dead_Rise_-_SXSW_2023_Panel.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lily Sullivan](https://film.one/media/person/21213/gallery-a497728d1888.jpg) Lily Sullivan — Image via TMDB
- ![Lily Sullivan](https://film.one/media/person/21213/gallery-59ea2f438d60.jpg) Lily Sullivan — Image via TMDB
- ![Lily Sullivan](https://film.one/media/person/21213/gallery-78278ad00ec4.jpg) Lily Sullivan — Image via TMDB

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