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14 Facts About Lily Hevesh

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Lily Hevesh is an American domino artist and YouTuber working under the channel name Hevesh5.

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Hevesh is the subject of the documentary film Lily Topples the World directed by Jeremy Workman and executive produced by actress Kelly Marie Tran.

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Lily Hevesh was given her first set of dominoes at age 10.

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Lily Hevesh attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she was a "Design, Innovation, and Society" major, but left after less than a year to pursue domino art full-time.

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In 2009, at the age of 10, Lily Hevesh created a YouTube channel called Lily Hevesh5, a reference to her being the fifth member of the family.

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Lily Hevesh posted anonymously for 6.5 years before revealing her identity in 2015 via a YouTube video.

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Lily Hevesh worked with Endemol Shine North America to create a competitive reality show around building domino effect chains tentatively called Domino Effect, in the same vein as Endemol's Lego Masters, announced in August 2020.

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The set comes with 100 improved dominoes which Lily Hevesh described as being "specially made for toppling".

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Lily Hevesh was approached by Campbell Soup Company in 2013 to create a commercial for them.

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Lily Hevesh was part of the team commissioned to set up dominoes for a scene in Collateral Beauty.

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In 2017, Lily Hevesh was hired by Marvel to create a Spider-Man-inspired domino art piece.

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In 2021, a documentary about Hevesh titled Lily Topples the World premiered at the virtual South by Southwest, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the Documentary Feature Film Competition.

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Lily Hevesh Topples The World was produced by Robert Lyons and executive produced by actress Kelly Marie Tran in her first producing role.

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Lily Hevesh was one of the United States Junior Chamber's Ten Outstanding Young Americans in 2022.