Lily From "Modern Family" Looks All Grown Up in These New TikTok Videos
The 13-year-old actor unexpectedly went viral on the video platform.
If Modern Family was still on, there could easily be a plot about Lily Tucker-Pritchett becoming a TikTok star. But now, that storyline is happening in the real world. As reported by E! News, the actor who played Lily on Modern Family, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, has gone viral on TikTok thanks to her lip-syncing and dance videos. In particular, the 13-year-old posted a popular video of her lip-syncing to a remix of "Bound 2" by Kanye West. The video has 1.5 million likes (at the time this article was published).
In response to her sudden TikTok popularity, Anderson-Emmons posted a video in which she says, "Why is everybody all of a sudden realizing that I'm on TikTok? I've been on TikTok since 2019. Gotta love the algorithm." In another video, she thanks TikTok users for following her account after making it to 100,000 followers. As of Feb. 4, Anderson-Emmons has 226,000 followers.
Read on to find out more about what the young actor is up to post-Modern Family. And to check out what another young star is up to these days, read up on how "America's Got Talent" Winner Grace VanderWaal Is Unrecognizable Now.
Her TikTok fame happened overnight.
Anderson-Emmons uses TikTok the same way many teens do: posting dance and lip-sync videos and sharing clips of herself hanging out with her friends and her pets. If she's right about the algorithm, it makes sense that suddenly a lot of people would have started seeing her videos. Plus, people want to know what Lily from Modern Family is up to now after watching her grow up on TV. She joined the series in 2011 at only four years old, so the now-13-year-old was on the show for most of her life.
The actor posted about her TikTok success on Instagram. Alongside a screenshot of an article about her going viral on TikTok, she thanked her growing number of followers.
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She's still interested in acting.
In an interview with Showbiz Cheat Sheet in Jan. 2020, Anderson-Emmons said she was looking forward to doing some more auditions after Modern Family, which came to an end in April 2020. "I've been trying to get some more auditions and stuff but nobody wants to deal with Modern Family," she said. "Because of the schedules it's really, really hard."
She recently posted a photo of herself studying for an audition on Instagram.
For more on child stardom, find out How Mary-Kate & Ashley Stopped Elizabeth Olsen From Being a Child Star.
She loves ballroom dancing.
Anderson-Emmons has trained in ballroom dance, and you can see her in action on her Instagram. In the interview with Showbiz Cheat Sheet, she revealed she does cha cha and samba. She also said she hopes to one day be part of another popular ABC show: "I want to try to be on Dancing With the Stars since I do dancing."
And for the famous faces who didn't want to be on the show, check out 17 Celebrities Who Turned Down Dancing With the Stars.
She goes to school and hangs out with friends like any normal kid.
While she was on Modern Family, Anderson-Emmons was part of "a public school with an independent home-school program," for kids who are professionally in the entertainment business or athletics. In an Aug. 2020 New York Times feature about homeschooling, Anderson-Emmons said she enrolled in a traditional private school, but didn't get to attend in person for long before the COVID-19 pandemic meant students had to learn from home.
Anderson-Emmons posted a back-to-school photo on Instagram in January, and wrote, "My school is called 'My Mom's Dining Room Table Academy.'" Though she's back to homeschooling these days, she's been able to hang out with some of her friends and is sure to share their adventures and dance moves on Instagram and TikTok.
And for more on the kids you grew up watching on screen, check out The Biggest Child Actors Ever, Then and Now.
