Get to Know 'Life By Ella' Star Lily Brooks O'Briant with 10 Fun Facts (Exclusive)

Lily Brooks O’Briant’s 10 Fun Facts

• 1. One of my favorite things is to take trapeze lessons on Santa Monica Pier! I know it sounds crazy and scary, but it is so much fun! It’s a surreal experience!
• 2. I LOVE to read. I probably read about 3 books a month! When I was on set for Life by Ella, I was always reading in between takes or on my lunch breaks. My favorite book I read while filming Life By Ella was “Heart Bones” by Colleen Hoover. I am a big Colleen Hoover fan!
• 3. The first role I ever played as an actress was a bunny rabbit in a summer camp theater production of Sleeping Beauty when I was 5 years old.
• 4. I am left-handed, but I do pretty much everything with my right hand except for writing. When I was playing Matilda, at the end of the show I had to do a cartwheel with the actress who played Miss Honey. They wanted me to do the cartwheel on my left, which I thought would be easy because I’m left-handed… but turns out I can’t do a cartwheel on my left even though I’m left-handed.
• 5. My absolute favorite show of all time is Gilmore Girls. I have probably watched the entire series over 8 times. My mom and I will always be team Logan!
• 6. I can’t wink, I just can’t do it. I have tried to teach myself to do it but for some reason I can’t wink.
• 7. I have always wanted to go skydiving, but my mom won’t let me. So, I’ll just have to go for my 18th birthday! I also LOVE riding rollercoasters. When I was too short to ride Expedition Everest at Disney World one year, there may or may not have been tears, and then ice cream involved to make me not so sad.
• 8. Every summer for the Fourth of July my entire family goes down to East Tennessee to my uncle’s lake house and we have the best week ever! We go tubing, we wake surf, and we all go play a family game of paintball!
• 9. I learned how to surf this summer when I was in Hawaii & loved it. I have also gotten pretty good at wake surfing! Trapeze, sky diving, surfing, rollercoasters – I think I might be a little adventurous.
• 10. When I was little, I had 3 surgeries on my ears, I had pneumonia 3 times, AND I have Asthma. And then while I was filming Life By Ella, I got Covid and while I had Covid, I had to have surgery because I had Appendicitis. I get sick a lot 😂
• BONUS! My favorite food of all time is cotton candy! My friends and I have this tradition that every time we go somewhere that sells cotton candy, we HAVE to buy it and take a picture of me shoving the cotton candy in my mouth. It’s the best tradition ever 😂

Life By Ella is now streaming on Apple TV+!