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Inside Lily James' idyllic childhood as the daughter of a musician and actress - until a devastating family heartbreak hit when she was 18 and drama school became her 'lifeline'
She has become one of the most sought after actresses in Hollywood after soaring to fame playing Lady Rose MacClare in Downton Abbey.
Lily James has become one of the most sought after actresses in Hollywood after soaring to fame playing Lady Rose MacClare in Downton Abbey (pictured last week) The loss of her actor father, Jamie Thomson – who died of cancer in 2008 at the age of 54 – was the low point of the then 18-year-old drama student's life just as she had been accepted into the prestigious Guildhall school. The loss of her father came on the heels of the death of his brother, Bruce, who had motor neurone disease, and of her grandmother, actress Helen, who had returned to the US to care for her son.
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