Modern Family's Lily Explains Professional Name Change

Modern Family child star Frances Anderson is detailing her decision to go by a different name professionally. “Frances is actually part of my legal name. It’s my middle name, and it’s after my mom’s old family friend,” Anderson, 18, told E! News in an interview published on Friday, August 8. “I thought, one, it was a bit shorter than ‘Aubrey Anderson-Emmons.’ I do have a long, hyphenated last name.” Anderson was previously credited as Aubrey Anderson-Emmons when she played Lily, the daughter of Cam and Mitchell, on all 11 seasons of Modern Family. “I [also] wanted to switch it up and I wanted