Aubrey is a child actress who played young Lily Tucker-Pritchett on ABC’s Modern Family. In the show, Lily, a Vietnamese-born child, is adopted
by a gay couple in America. Her performance in the role earned Aubrey praise for bringing more diversity and cultural awareness onto the screen. When she was four, she and the rest of the Modern Family cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast (or Ensemble) in a Comedy Series. As part of the ensemble, she became the youngest person to ever win a SAG award. She currently spends much of her time doing charity work for a number of different organizations.
‘‘No matter what it is you want to do in life, it’s important to be yourself.”
—Aubrey Anderson Emmons
This excerpt is from The Book of Awesome Girls by Becca Anderson, which is available now through Amazon and Mango Media.
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