Lio TiptonActor
Lio “Analeigh” Tipton, who placed third overall in cycle 11 of America’s Next Top Model, attended the New York Film Academy in the summer of 2005. They studied in NYFA’s six-week film camp before pursuing a career in modeling and acting.
Since, Tipton has appeared in a series of television shows and films including A Friend of the Family (2022) opposite Jake Lacy, Anna Paquin, and Colin Hanks, season one of Why Women Kill, The Big Bang Theory, romantic comedy Two Night Stand, Lucy with Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, Crazy, Stupid, Love., and The Green Hornet.
Their upcoming projects include With Love (2025) with Everything, Everywhere, All At Once’s Ke Huy Quan, The Long Home with Josh Hartnett, Giancarlo Esposito, and Josh Hutcherson, the TV series The Edge of Sleep, and My Twin Is Dead.
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Program Studied at NYFA: Filmmaking
Program Type: 6-Week Teen Filmmaking Program
Year Attended/Graduated: 2005
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