New Delhi: Tilly Norwood is called Hollywood’s first artificial intelligence (AI)-generated actress who has irked many A-listers. She has been created by Eline Van der Velden and her company Particle6. She has hogged attention on social media and has amassed a huge fan following too. However, an AI-actress’s rising fame has now raised some eyebrows too especially, after its creators revealed that a few talent agencies are showing keen interest in her.
Meet Tilly Norward: The AI Actress
“I may be AI, but I’m feeling very real emotions right now,” Tilly’s creators wrote on her page. “I am so excited for what’s coming next!”
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Hollywood A-list stars like Emily Blunt, Natasha Lyonne and Whoopi Goldberg have expressed their displeasure over it, reports BBC. Norwood “is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers,” the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA, said in a statement.
Reacting to the massive backlash, Tilly Norwood’s creator posted on her Instagram page that ‘the creation is “not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work – a piece of art”. “Creating Tilly has been, for me, an act of imagination and craftmanship, not unlike drawing a character, writing a role or shaping a performance,” Van der Velden wrote.
Tilly Norwood Criticism
Tilly Norwood featured in the AI-generated comedy sketch AI Commissioner – made with ten pieces of AI software and written by ChatGPT. A September 2025 announcement at the Zurich Film Festival’s Zurich Summit that agencies were considering signing her drew criticism from multiple Hollywood actresses and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).
Tilly Norwood’s Instagram page has 36.8K followers as of now.
