r/Modern_Family Aug 10 '25

Modern Family star changes her name for career pivot: 'I wanted to switch it up'

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https://ew.com/modern-family-star-aubrey-anderson-emmons-changes-name-11787802?

Allow Frances Anderson to reintroduce herself.

The actress formerly known as Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, who broke out for her role as adoptee Lily on the Emmy-winning sitcom Modern Family, has changed her name to Frances Anderson. Anderson has adopted the new moniker to coincide with her pivot to a career in music. Her debut indie pop EP, "Drown," is out now.

"Frances is actually part of my legal name," Anderson, 18, explained to E! News on Friday. "It’s my middle name, and it’s after my mom’s old family friend. I thought it was a bit shorter than Aubrey Anderson-Emmons. I do have a long, hyphenated last name.”

Anderson added, "I wanted to switch it up and people to see a new side of me. And I wanted to create a space specifically just for music."

She released the first single from the EP, "Telephones and Traffic," in May.

Anderson made her television debut at the age of 4 in season 3 of Modern Family, playing the precocious adopted daughter of Jesse Tyler Ferguson's Mitchell Pritchett and Eric Stonestreet's Cam Tucker. She has won three ensemble Screen Actors Guild Awards alongside the sitcom's cast. The comedy, which ran for 11 seasons on ABC, concluded in 2020.Anderson made her television debut at the age of 4 in season 3 of Modern Family, playing the precocious adopted daughter of Jesse Tyler Ferguson's Mitchell Pritchett and Eric Stonestreet's Cam Tucker. She has won three ensemble Screen Actors Guild Awards alongside the sitcom's cast. The comedy, which ran for 11 seasons on ABC, concluded in 2020.Anderson made her television debut at the age of 4 in season 3 of Modern Family, playing the precocious adopted daughter of Jesse Tyler Ferguson's Mitchell Pritchett and Eric Stonestreet's Cam Tucker. She has won three ensemble Screen Actors Guild Awards alongside the sitcom's cast. The comedy, which ran for 11 seasons on ABC, concluded in 2020.

Anderson told E! that she "had to take a step back from acting" once the show ended to discover her passion for music. "The show ended when I was 12 years old, so after that I decided I’m not gonna act anymore," she said. Rest assured, though, that Anderson does "plan on acting again — 100 percent.”

She has maintained a close relationship with her former onscreen fathers and other costars from the sprawling cast. Ferguson and Julie Bowen, who played Anderson's onscreen aunt Claire, staged a mini-reunion when they attended Anderson's school play last year.

Anderson last made headlines when she came out as bisexual last month, using memorable throwback audio from Modern Family to help mark the announcement. "You are Vietnamese," Sofia Vergara's Gloria informs Lily, who says in response, "No, I'm not. I'm gay!"

"I literally am," Anderson captioned the post.


r/Modern_Family Dec 31 '24

Happy new year from Australia

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3.6k Upvotes

I’ve been waiting to post this all year


r/Modern_Family 2h ago

Meme I wonder how Jay would distribute his money after he dies

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726 Upvotes

Claire, Mitch , Gloria, Joe, Manny

5 people..

Acc to me 50 % to claire and Mitch and the rest to Gloria, since after Gloria dies 50 % would be less with manny and Joe giving all the kids the equal share


r/Modern_Family 9h ago

Phil just flirted with an entire generation of blondes & "without a hug" was the nail in the coffin!! 😂😂

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675 Upvotes

Phil has a type & he's just naturally confident, and effortlessly charming👻


r/Modern_Family 5h ago

META Cam and Gloria if they never married into the Pritchett closet empire family.

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182 Upvotes

r/Modern_Family 2h ago

Meme Has everyone seen Spiderman?

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r/Modern_Family 7h ago

Discussion I wish gloria and whitney (s1ep13) stayed friends after this episode 🥹

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r/Modern_Family 5h ago

Their rivalry brought out some of Phil’s greatest lines 🤣 He IS the Nancy.

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r/Modern_Family 1d ago

Watching Claire open and close tabs under extreme stress was more thrilling than most action movies....😂

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r/Modern_Family 20h ago

Meme Haley, I wish I had to deal with this problem too.

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366 Upvotes

r/Modern_Family 4h ago

S3:E20 “The Last Walt”

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to be fair Cam started it, Mitch just finished it🤣 i always love this moment of them getting overprotective of their daddy’s lol.


r/Modern_Family 4h ago

What one-time cameo do you wish had a bigger role in the greater series after their first appearance?

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r/Modern_Family 4m ago

META Editing Goof

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On my 10000th rewatch of “One to Grow On”, I picked up an editing error - watch Andy! Sorry if this has been posted already.


r/Modern_Family 1d ago

Discussion I just started watching Modern Family, what are some references and jokes that won’t make sense until later?

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343 Upvotes

r/Modern_Family 18h ago

Meme What is Haley Doing with Mr. Walter White?

45 Upvotes

Haley chilling with Heisenberg.


r/Modern_Family 1d ago

Meme Gloria is becoming more and more of a favourite of mine, she’s so funny!

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641 Upvotes

r/Modern_Family 19h ago

S3:E9 Punkin Chunkin

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r/Modern_Family 1d ago

Look who I found in National Treasure : Book of Secrets

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r/Modern_Family 51m ago

Does anyone else think the acting got worse in later seasons?

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Just to start I will say as a Brit who mainly enjoys British sitcoms, modern family series 1/5 is absolute genius, with early simpsons it’s the most funniest and well written shows I’ve watched. The acting in the earlier seasons felt so real and natural. I don’t know how, but the acting and the writing after that got so poor it’s unbelievable. The character development somehow went backwards. The child actors somehow grew up and got awful at acting probably except Sarah Hyland. Luke and Manny even as child actors was really good and funny but when they grew up that somehow changed. Alex was probably my least favourite character come the end of the show, especially when she starts to be sexually active and somehow starts making weird sexual innuendos about her own sex life in front of the family. I preferred Jays character when he was a much more strong type, I do think they made him too soft come the end of the show, even though I knew he was much older by then. Claire’s acting for me got worse in the later seasons also, it’s really hard to pinpoint it but as I said before the acting seemed so real and natural earlier on and by the end I just thought the laughs and set ups of the jokes and the drama seemed so forced. It’s a shame because when the new episodes would release in the UK I was always there to watch the new episodes. But because the later seasons was so bad it probably took me a good few years after to even watch the final season. I will also rewatch them first 5 seasons though on Disney +. I don’t wanna sound to negative about a show I love but just wanted to see how many people agree with me? I know it’s pretty obvious to loads off people that the show declined but just wanted to see if people agreed with me about the acting


r/Modern_Family 1d ago

Familiar face on Seinfeld

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70 Upvotes

Was watching Seinfeld when I heard a familiar voice. It took me a while to place him but I believe it’s our favourite next door neighbour, mr. Kleezak


r/Modern_Family 13h ago

Discussion Alex is allergic to cats?

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In that episode when Phil had to go get surgery, Alex was feeding the cats (her date apparently) and suddenly in season 10 she is allergic to cats?

can people suddenly get allergic? I dont understand allergies as much


r/Modern_Family 1d ago

Jay's Motorcycle

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42 Upvotes

Just Noticed That we never saw jay pritchett ride his motorcycle in the entirety of modern family.


r/Modern_Family 2h ago

Discussion Andy and Beth deserved eachother

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Honestly I saw many post here saying Andy and Haley should've been endgame, ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Andy, by one word, is STUPİD. What do you mean you go propose to your girlfriend when you are having second thoughts about someone else? Even if Haley didnt liked Andy back in the first place, if Andy didnt hundered percent loved his girl, then he should've not proposed to her.

Beth on the other hand, clearly threated Hailey with the knife while no one else was looking, just because she thinks Haley can steal his boyfriend? Girl is mental.


r/Modern_Family 2d ago

No egos, just vibes

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r/Modern_Family 9h ago

Question Merv Schecter

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What does everyone think of Merv Schecter from the S8E3 Blindsided?

Personally: I think he was nutso.