Who are Aubrey Anderson-Emmons parents? All about family as Modern Family star comes out as bisexual

Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, best known for playing Lily Tucker-Pritchett on Modern Family, has come out as bisexual.

In an Instagram post shared on June 16, 2025, the 18-year-old shared a video clip where she is seen lip-syncing to a scene from the epic ABC sitcom. In the scene, Gloria Delgado-Pritchett (played by Sofia Vergara) says:

“You are Vietnamese”

In her response, a young Lily says:

"No I'm not, I'm gay, I'm gay!"

Aubrey is seen laughing in the video and added a text which read:

"people keep joking so much abt [sic] me being gay when I literally am (I'm bi)."

According to IMDb, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons was born in Santa Monica, California, on June 6, 2007. Her parents are Amy Anderson and Kent Emmons. Her mother is an actress and a director. At the same time, her father is the founder of All Comedy and All the Time radio network. He is also the founding investor and CEO of Crave News, per his LinkedIn.

Here is more about Aubrey Anderson-Emmons' family.

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Everything you need to know about Aubrey Anderson-Emmons’s family

Aubrey Anderson-Emmons is the daughter of Amy Anderson and Kent Emmons, who are separated.

According to Grumpy Magazine, Anderson is a Korean-American actress and a stand-up comedian. Her profile on IMDb states that she was born on September 1 in Seoul, South Korea. She was adopted by American parents Harold Anderson and Jan Anderson.

She pursued acting and music as her career. Her several work credits included Lucifer (2016), I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (2019), and Don't Look Deeper (2020). In an interview with Yahoo Parenting in 2014, she spoke about the sacrifice she made for her daughter when it came to her career. She said:

"This is not at all how I thought my life would look. For almost 18 years, I’ve worked on my acting career and then put everything on hold to help my daughter Aubrey, which has been hard."

According to The Things, Anderson was seen on Comedy Central as a comedian and on Raising Hope. She created the first Asian-American stand-up showcase, CHOP-SHTICK. When Aubrey Anderson-Emmons replaced Ella and Jaden Hiller as Lily Pritchett in 2011, she was overwhelmed. Discussing her feelings with Yahoo Parenting in 2014, she said:

“It was exciting in the beginning. Ten days after we decided that Aubrey was going to audition for Modern Family, she was signing a contract. It was such a whirlwind, that we just ran with it.”

She helped Aubrey on the set of Modern Family as she was small and was barely able to function without her. She helped her with her lines and gave her advice. Anderson revealed how she traveled nonstop during Aubrey Anderson-Emmons’ time on the show. She juggled between being a “stage mom and a regular mom.”

She told the outlet that after spending eight hours on the set, she went home and did laundry, dinner, bath, and bedtime. Her devotion to her daughter made her a successful actor over time. Today, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons’ net worth is estimated to be at $6 million, per Celebrity Net Worth.

Her father, Kent Emmons, is a media entrepreneur. According to Rafa magazine, he was born in 1965 in rural Southern Illinois. He is now a successful businessman. He is also the author of books, including The Common Sense 80%, Generation Entrepreneur, etc.

He is a well-known personality. From 1988-1996, he was the CEO of Atlantis Entertainment. Later, in 2011, he became the founder of Comedy Radio Group of networks (Comedy World, All Comedy Radio, National Lampoon Comedy Radio). He is currently working as the Founding Investor and CEO of Crave News.