<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 2007--present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Height </Th> <Td> 5'4" </Td> </Tr> <P> Ellie May Darcey - Alden (born 4 September 1999) is a former English child film, stage and television actress who is best known for playing young Lily Potter in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, Francesca "Franny" Latimer in the Doctor Who series 7 Christmas special, "The Snowmen" and Felice della Rovere in Tom Fontana's Borgia: Faith and Fear . Before joining such large franchises as Harry Potter and Doctor Who, she appeared in minimal parts in British theatre and television . She has also done small - time modelling, commercials, voice over work and competitive dancing . </P> <P> Darcey - Alden was born in Yarnton, Oxford, Oxfordshire to a middle - class family, the daughter of Sarah Dawn (née Darcey; b . 1975), a housewife, and Philip Rodney "Phil" Alden (b . 1966 in Berkshire), a production senior director on Falcon 9 for SpaceX in Hawthorne, a former general manager at BMW Plant Automotive Group and technology manager at Jaguar Rover Automotive, and an owner of a charity website . Her father has a prominent political background through her paternal great - great - grandfather Leonard Henry Alden, Mayor of Oxford from 1936 - 37 . Her parents legally wed in August 2003 . </P>

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