Acting

Lillian Crawford

Biography

Lillian Crawford (born 25 August 1998) is a British writer, academic, and programmer. She writes for publications including Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, BBC Culture, Times Literary Supplement, and The New Statesman. In 2025 she penned introductions to the collected screenplays of Terence Davies, and in 2026 her first book, The Mind of the Doctor: Across the Neurodiverse Universe of Doctor Who, was published. She is co-founder of Stims Collective, alongside filmmakers Sam Ahern and Georgia Kumari Bradburn, and shorts programmer for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and In Short Europe. She appeared on University Challenge and Mastermind on BBC Two before making her film debut in Bradburn's short A Brief History of Circles (2024). Lillian appears as herself in the documentary film Dog With A Movie Camera (2026).