“Modern Family” alum Aubrey Anderson-Emmons is all grown up, shares prom photos
They grow up so fast.
Lily Tucker-Pritchett is all grown up.
Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, best known for her role as the precocious daughter of Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet's characters on the acclaimed sitcom Modern Family, shared photos from prom on Instagram.
Anderson-Emmons, 16, wore a classic black gown for the occasion. She also uploaded a Reel that documented her transformation from a t-shirt and shorts to the ensemble.
The young star was just 4 years old when she joined season 4 of Modern Family as the adopted Vietnamese daughter of Mitchell (Ferguson) and Cameron (Stonestreet), replacing child stars Ella and Jaden Hiller who both played the baby version of the character.
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The Emmy-winning sitcom followed the lives of the blended Pritchett family led by patriarch Jay (Ed O'Neill) and second wife Gloria (Sofia Vergara). Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Sarah Hyland, Nolan Gould, Ariel Winter, and Rico Rodriguez also starred in the 11-season mockumentary, which ran between 2009 and 2020 on ABC.
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Aubrey Anderson-Emmons as Lily Tucker-Pritchett, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett, and Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker on 'Modern Family'Anderson-Emmons has remained close with her TV family. She recently re-enacted a moment from the sitcom with Ferguson, with the two lip dubbing lines exchanged between Lily and Sal (played by Elizabeth Banks), a friend of Mitchell and Cameron's in the series: "Sorry you couldn't come to the wedding, it was no kids." "It's OK, I'll go to your next one."
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Earlier this year, Ferguson and Bowen, who played his onscreen sister, attended Anderson-Emmons' high school production of The Theory of Relativity. Ferguson documented the reunion on Instagram. and captioned the post, "Took my sis to see the kiddo in her school musical."
In a recent "Get Ready With Me" TikTok, Anderson-Emmons looked back on landing her role on the sitcom and balancing school and work. "I think people don't realize, I was working, and if I wasn't working on the set, that I had to do three hours of studio school a day, so I had no time to rest except lunch," she said. "And there are moments that were fun, for sure. And there were things I loved about it."
Anderson-Emmons also shared that though she didn't think she'd act again after the show ended, her theater class experiences in high school have since changed her mind. "I was like, 'Wait, I kind of want to do this.' And now I'm auditioning again," she said. "So that's fun and I hope to do something."
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