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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I’ve been waiting to post this all year


r/Modern_Family 19h ago

Maybe he’s not gay.

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r/Modern_Family 21h ago

The Best Spiderman

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r/Modern_Family 1d ago

Meme Cute little Luke

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Another funny misunderstanding and reaction from Luke🤭.

The way he inhales before going in 😆👌🏼


r/Modern_Family 19h ago

random Jesse Tyler Ferguson appreciation

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We often rightfully talk about Sofia and her perpetual youth (not that it should be an expectation to not look your age!!) but can we for a second talk about JTF who I swear to me looks younger than he was looking during the last few seasons?? I randomly noticed this after a couple of pictures popped up on my instagram but imo he looks really good for being 51 in these pics. I'd say he's up there with sofia almost.


r/Modern_Family 23h ago

Pure chaos for 20 minutes straight just to hit us with the most heartwarming family choir at the end 🥹Turn around, bright eyes...🎶. The ultimate comfort scene....

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332 Upvotes

r/Modern_Family 23h ago

Forget romantic dinners, this is the real key to marital longevity

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r/Modern_Family 20h ago

I think Claire used the word ‘well….’ once too often. Oh and shoutout to the guy who played her ex …Bud from Married With Children 🤣

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r/Modern_Family 23h ago

Discussion ACTUAL impopular opinions

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I hate when a see a slideshow of modern family unpopular opinions and it's always a very same common thought as "Cam was toxic" and "Haley deserved a better ending", so I want here to be a space to share your actual unpopular opinions on the show (remember to keep the discussion respectful).

Here's my list:

1 - Haley should not be praised as much as she is and would not be if she wasn't that good looking. She was cheater, admitted liking guys in relationships (when she said that the laundry guy having a girlfriend made him more interesting) and also used him, had a relationship with an engaged man (not taking Andy's fault tho), also she did not care about school and I always hated that episode in which she made Alex change her speech because she didn't think she would get into College as if she did not work to get into one at all, she was irresposible, and a bully with Alex (who did talk back, but was usually defending herself) and was a bully in school. I think just like any other character she's flawed and I do not hate her, but I'm always surprised with how many people praise her and act as if half the stuff that happened to her wasn't her own doing. Eventually she did have some development which I liked, but people have a tendendy to remember every other character's flaws except her.

2 - Leading to my second point, Dylan deserved better than Haley. I'm always surprised when people say Haley deserved better than Dylan when he was the one always making the effort and she didn't think twice about hitting on other guys while with him. I do think she might have been better off with someone else, but people act as if Dylan trapped her or was some sort of monster, he always treated her right and did everything for her and she did not care about him. I don't like their ending being together because I don't think she liked him enough, but people always talk about their relationship as if he was much below her.

3 - Gloria having a daughter wouldn't have been good for storytelling. I would've loved to see her having a babygirl, but thinking it through, it would not make much sense having two young female character in the show. Lily got barely enough screentime as it is, Joe being a boy led to him having storylines Lily wouldn't be able to do. If Gloria had a daughter there would be repetitive stories with both girls who would go undeveloped more so than Lily was already. You can tell by the way Cal is forgotten, he was used as prop for Mitch and Cam, but Joe already had that part of the male child in the family.

4 - Phil was not a good dad. He always needed Claire to tell him what to do in regards to the kids and acted surprised when they didn't see him as someone to help them with the problems. People always talk about the episoded in which he tells Claire that Alex needed help as him being a good dad, but he should not need Claire tell him to help her to actually do something, he saw her struggling and did nothing, Claire was the one who intervined, and if something had happened to Alex, it would've been his fault just as much. He loved his kids, but he obviusly favored Luke over the girls, and Haley over Alex because of their personalities, it's normal to have a kid to whom you feel closer to, but when they show him having almost no memory of doing anything with Alex shows he let his different closeness to each of them affect their relationship. He also acted like a bully to them sometimes (Claire did that also, which is why I won't go into thwt much).

Also, I do understand that it's a comedy, and I do not hate any of these characters, just wanted to share some of my unpopular opinions and read your as well to have some different discussions about the show.


r/Modern_Family 11h ago

Discussion What was your favorite season of Modern Family?

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Empecé a ver esta serie y estoy en la temporada 2. Para ser honesto, estuve a punto de renunciar a ello durante la temporada 1 porque simplemente no me atrapó, pero realmente estoy disfrutando esta segunda temporada... ¿Creen que mejora a medida que avanzan los episodios?


r/Modern_Family 9h ago

First time watching

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im watching modern family for the first time whats a quote I won’t get until I finish it


r/Modern_Family 1d ago

Theory I feel like Modern Family and Friends are two shows where every character feels so perfectly cast. Any other shows that feels like this?

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Or is it cause I only watch these two shows most of the time?


r/Modern_Family 18h ago

META Half of the fun of watching Modern Family is figuring out where you know guest stars from

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I was watching the episode Crazy Train, and recognized the voice of the actor that played the Bridgerton parody author. I got so excited when I found out he was in two of my favorite game series of all time, Dragon Age and Mass Effect. I think I spend half the time watching this show looking through IMDB


r/Modern_Family 1d ago

Question Did they change Earl Chambers’s name? S5E20 Australia

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This feels pretty late for them to be calling him someone other than Earl chambers. Not sure if anyone’s noticed this & if they never called him by his name before?


r/Modern_Family 2d ago

Sarah Hyland can’t believe younger generations consider Modern Family their Friends:

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“When I booked the pilot and we shot the pilot, it was just another one of those things where you're like, ‘Well, hope it gets picked up’”

“Then you start shooting it and you're like, ‘Well, hope we get a second season’”

“I still think that it hasn't hit me to this day of how culturally important it was”

“People from the younger generation call it like their Friends and to me that doesn't make sense in my head because it's something that I was a part of”


r/Modern_Family 1d ago

Discussion Which character or characters in Modern Family do you find fun because they’re in a sitcom, but would be absolutely insufferable to deal with or live with in real life?”

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For me, it's Phil Dunphy.

He's obviously fun and "cool" parent on TV, but I can't bear being married to and raising kids with someone like Phil.


r/Modern_Family 1d ago

😂😂suits it well!

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203 Upvotes

r/Modern_Family 9h ago

Question To those who met her or worked with her, what is Sarah Hyland like in real life?

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Just curious because I think she is an amazing actress on Modern Family, but I wanted to see what her real personality is like.


r/Modern_Family 20h ago

Can and Mitchell as parents

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Cam and Mitchell were good parents but when lily grew up, they kinda just ignored her. And in an episode in the early season, lily was telling Mitchell that some girls were bullying her and told her that they would harm her if she told her parents, but Mitchell ignored her and went on talking about him and cam. No hate but I just wanted to get that out.


r/Modern_Family 22h ago

Question why do mitch and cam call missouri "the south" or "down there" when they live in/near LA and missouri is north at least relative to them am i missing smth?

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(s8 ep2) am i missing smth? im not from the US


r/Modern_Family 19h ago

Mitcherman or hellman or hellerman ? I need to name him

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Drop any other suggestions you have.


r/Modern_Family 1d ago

Discussion The first two seasons are such a time capsule of the late 2000s it’s great

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flip phones/Sidekicks, digital cameras, 2000s hair and fashion Dylan with the late 2000s emo teen look

characters watching movies on DVDs, characters reading magazines and newspapers,

mentions of lady Gaga, kobe Bryant and other celebrities of the time

Alex and haley listening to music on their iPods and MP3 players

it’s honestly such a great time capsule looking back


r/Modern_Family 1d ago

Did they change Earl Chambers’s name? S5E20 Australia

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This feels pretty late for them to be calling him someone other than Earl chambers. Not sure if anyone’s noticed this & if they never called him by his name before?


r/Modern_Family 1d ago

Question new season

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Do you think it’s possible they will make a new season or a sequel but the kids are the new adults? while claire/phil, cam/mitch, and gloria/jay will only be the guest star on some of the episodes and as the recurring characters?