Modern family Children’s star Frances Anderson is detailing his decision go through a different name professionally.
“French is actually part of my legal name. It’s my middle name and it’s after my mother’s old friend,” Anderson said, 18 years old And! News In an interview published on Friday, August 8. “I thought, one, it was a little shorter than” Aubrey Anderson-Emmons “. I have a long and written last name.”
Anderson previously accredited as Aubrey Anderson-Emmons When he played Lilythe daughter of Cam and Mitchell, in the 11 seasons of Modern family.
“I also wanted to change it, and I wanted people to see a new side of me,” he told the departure. “I wanted to create a space specifically for music. I am very excited for everyone to listen to the ep songs and I’m really grateful.”
Anderson launched his debut EP, DrownOn Friday about his experiences as a children’s star and beyond.
“Much of my music is inspired by things when I was younger, when I was a kid,” Anderson said. “A lot about how my experiences were in high school and I hope people find it relative. I am a teenager, I guess, I only turned 18. I feel like it was a maximum comfort.”

Frances Anderson with Ariel Winter and Sarah Hyland in the “Modern Family”.
ABC/ Matt Klitscher Collection/ EverettAnderson took a step back to act after Modern family Wrapped in 2020, instead of focusing on music. (Anderson was 12 years old when the sitcom finished.)
“I learned to play the guitar during Covid and learned to really write during my high school music class and, before, I have always been singing,” she said And! News. “One of my great dreams in life was to be on Broadway. I still hope to do it one day: the femers crossed.”
Anderson is also open to the possibility of acting again, especially if to Modern family The spinoff is on the table.
“They really didn’t say much. But my mother asked me,” Do you want to do it? “And I thought and I don’t know,” Anderson said the Daily In February 2024. “I think maybe if it happened, and probably if it happened, I would be out of high school. So honestly, I would be fine with me, but I want to stay in high school because I only have less than a year and a half.”
Anderson, who graduated earlier this year, noticed that he would “definitely be interested” based on the script and if his television parents (interpreted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonstreet) They were also on board.
“I feel like the end left the possibilities,” he added at the time. “I think that’s why people always talk about a Tucker-Prritchard family spinoff.”
Anderson has kept in contact with many of his former cost, including Ferguson, 49.
“I just called the other day and went straight to the mailbox,” Ferguson Explained exclusively Use weekly In December 2024. “I was like:” Oh my God, he sent me to voicemail! “I call her and send me to voicemail. But you know, now she is a different human being.”