Lily Rose Beatrice Allen was born on 2 May 1985 and is an English singer-songwriter and actress.
98 Facts About Lily Allen
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Lily Allen is the daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen.
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Lily Allen has released two further albums: Sheezus, which debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, and No Shame debuting at number eight.
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In 2018, Lily Allen released her autobiographical book, My Thoughts Exactly.
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Lily Allen was born on 2 May 1985 in Hammersmith, West London, the daughter of Keith Lily Allen, a Welsh-born actor, and British film producer Alison Owen.
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Lily Allen has an older sister, Sarah; a younger brother, actor Alfie ; and a younger sister, Rebecca.
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Lily Allen's mother was from a devoutly Catholic working-class Portsmouth family, and was 17 when she gave birth to Sarah.
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Lily Allen is the goddaughter of Wild Colonials vocalist Angela McCluskey and third-cousin of singer Sam Smith.
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At the age of three, Lily Allen appeared in The Comic Strip Presents.
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Lily Allen attended 13 schools, including King Charles III's junior alma mater, the Independent Hill House School, Millfield, Bedales School and was expelled from several of them for drinking and smoking.
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Lily Allen told Loveline that the audience was "brought to tears at the sight of a troubled young girl doing something good".
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At that point Lily Allen said she knew that music was something she needed to do either as a lifelong vocation or to get it out of her system.
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Lily Allen played the piano to grade 5 standard and achieved grade 8 in singing.
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Lily Allen played violin, guitar and trumpet and was a member of a chamber choir.
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In 1998, Lily Allen appeared in the music video to the Fat Les song "Vindaloo".
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When her family went to Ibiza on holiday, Lily Allen told her mother that she was staying with friends but remained in Sant Antoni de Portmany instead.
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Lily Allen earned money by working at a Plastic Fantastic record store and dealing ecstasy at the age of 15.
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Lily Allen first recorded the vocals for "On Me Head Not Off Me Head" written by her father for Mike Bassett: England Manager in 2001, and was featured in the 2002 song by her father's group Fat Les, "Who Invented Fish and Chips".
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Lily Allen started to work with music producers, and recorded a demo.
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Lily Allen was rejected by several labels, which she attributed to her drinking and being the daughter of Keith Allen.
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Lily Allen eventually used her father's connections to get signed to London Records in 2002.
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Lily Allen then studied horticulture to become a florist, but changed her mind and returned to music.
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Lily Allen began writing songs, while her manager introduced her to production duo Future Cut in 2004.
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Lily Allen then created an account on MySpace and began posting demos that she recorded in November 2005.
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Lily Allen received her first major mainstream coverage, appearing in the magazine's cover story two months later.
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Lily Allen decided to work with producers Greg Kurstin and Mark Ronson, finishing the rest of the album in two weeks.
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Lily Allen did several promotional ads for MTV as their Discover and Download artist of the month for January 2007.
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Lily Allen sang the vocals on the top ten single, "Oh My God", a cover of the Kaiser Chiefs song by Mark Ronson.
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On 1 July 2007, Lily Allen appeared at the Concert for Diana held at Wembley Stadium, London to celebrate the life of Princess Diana.
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Lily Allen provided background vocals to a couple of songs on the Kaiser Chiefs' third album in 2008.
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Lily Allen later performed at a benefit concert for War Child, an international child protection agency that works with children affected by war.
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Lily Allen changed her management company from Empire Artist Management to Twenty-First Artists, although her core team remained in place.
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At the urging of her record company, Lily Allen tried unsuccessfully to create the album with several writers and producers.
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Lily Allen eventually returned to Greg Kurstin who had written three songs for Alright, Still.
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Lily Allen cancelled a scheduled appearance at the 2008 Isle of Wight Festival, telling festival promoter John Giddings the reason for the cancellation was that her album was behind schedule.
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On 29 June 2008, Lily Allen performed at the Glastonbury Festival alongside producer Mark Ronson.
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An emotional Lily Allen dedicated her performance of "Littlest Things" to her grandmother who died the night before.
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Lily Allen began her It's Not Me, It's You World Tour in March, touring throughout the next two years until September 2010.
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Lily Allen appeared overwhelmed by this recognition from what she considered "real awards".
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In October 2010, Lily Allen won her second BMI Pop Song Award by the United States music licensing organisation Broadcast Music Incorporated for extensive United States radio airplay of her song, "The Fear".
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In September 2009, Lily Allen announced that she was considering a career in acting, that she would not renew her record contract, and that she had "no plans" to make another record.
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Lily Allen featured on the UK top five single, "Just Be Good to Green" by Professor Green in June 2010.
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Also in 2011, T-Pain used a verse from Lily Allen's "Who'd Have Known" as the chorus to the song "5 O'Clock", which became the second single from his album Revolver.
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In June 2012, Lily Allen confirmed she was in the studio working with Greg Kurstin on new music.
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Lily Allen later changed her professional name from Lily Allen to Lily Rose Cooper and appeared on the track "True Love" on Pink's sixth studio album, The Truth About Love, released in September 2012.
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In November 2013, Lily Allen recorded a cover of Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know" for the John Lewis Christmas advert with a portion of the song's sales earnings donated to Save the Children's Philippine Typhoon Appeal campaign.
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On 12 November 2013, Lily Allen premiered the video for her new song "Hard Out Here" on her official website.
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In December 2013, Lily Allen was announced as one of the newest signees at Warner Bros.
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Lily Allen did not enjoy the music she was being asked to create and believed people within the music industry were controlling her musical choices.
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Lily Allen mentioned on the podcast News Roast that she is working on a new album, which will mainly deal with herself, her relationship with her children, the breakdown of her marriage, substance abuse, etc.
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In late 2017, Lily Allen uploaded numerous songs online in preparation for the album, including the track titled "Family Man".
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When conceiving the album Lily Allen wanted to work through her problems via music.
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On 24 January 2018 Lily Allen announced her new album would be called No Shame.
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Lily Allen later said in March 2020 that her new album only features "odd mentions" of her past addictions as she has "moved on mentally so far from that time".
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Lily Allen later said that she was unsure that she could perform "on a stage like that sober again", being nearly three years sober.
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In June 2021, Lily Allen announced that she would be playing the lead role of Jenny in the West End play 2:22 A Ghost Story at the Noel Coward Theatre from 3 August 2021.
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Lily Allen made an appearance as a lady-in-waiting in the 1998 film Elizabeth, which was co-produced by her mother.
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Lily Allen later appeared as Elizabeth Taylor in How to Build a Girl in July 2019, alongside her brother Alfie.
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In 2009, Lily Allen was named the face of the National Portrait Gallery as part of the gallery's marketing campaign.
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Lily Allen did not entirely abandon music during this period, in which she focused on starting her family.
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In May 2016, Lily Allen announced the launch of her second record label, Bank Holiday Records.
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On 20 September 2018, Lily Allen published the memoir My Thoughts Exactly with Blink Publishing.
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Lily Allen had previously recommended Womanizer's products in her autobiography My Thoughts Exactly.
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Lily Allen has spoken publicly about her seven-year stalking ordeal and the effect it had on her life.
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Lily Allen then sent Allen threatening letters to her home, her clothes shop, her record label and her manager's office.
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Lily Allen said that she isolated herself following the stalking incidents, believing that "nobody was taking me seriously because the police weren't taking me seriously".
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In February 2017, Lily Allen said that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
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Lily Allen has been outspoken regarding her body image throughout her career.
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In January 2021, Lily Allen gave an interview to discuss how she became addicted to the prescription drug Adderall in 2014 in order to lose weight before supporting Miley Cyrus on her Bangerz tour.
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Lily Allen began a journey of recovery soon after when she was tempted to try heroin.
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Lily Allen is a cricket fan and has appeared on Test Match Special.
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Lily Allen began dating musician Ed Simons of the Chemical Brothers in September 2007, and in December, Lily Allen announced that she and Simons were expecting a child.
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Lily Allen announced that she suffered a miscarriage in January 2008.
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However, in her 2018 memoir My Thoughts Exactly, Lily Allen writes that she "fake[d]" the miscarriage due to fears over how tabloids would report the story.
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Lily Allen has stated that she spent three weeks in a psychiatric clinic due to depression.
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In July 2009, Lily Allen began dating Sam Cooper, a builder and decorator.
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On 5 August 2010, Lily Allen announced that she was pregnant with her and Cooper's first child, later confirmed to be a boy, due early in 2011.
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In February 2017, Lily Allen explained that she was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder after the stillbirth.
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Lily Allen gave birth to her daughter, Ethel Mary, in 2011.
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Lily Allen gave birth to her second daughter, Marnie Rose, in 2013, following which she experienced postnatal depression.
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Lily Allen had included details of these events in her book My Thoughts Exactly, and said that she made the Instagram post as the Daily Mail were planning to publish an article about it the following day.
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In My Thoughts Exactly, Lily Allen writes that she had an affair with Liam Gallagher when he was married to Nicole Appleton.
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Lily Allen began a relationship with actor David Harbour in 2019.
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Lily Allen later confirmed her support for the Labour Party and then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown in particular.
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In June 2016, Lily Allen published several tweets and attended protests in support of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, after mass resignations from his cabinet and a leadership challenge.
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On 15 June 2017, Lily Allen appeared on Channel 4 News to discuss the Grenfell Tower fire.
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Lily Allen claimed that "the death count has been downplayed by the mainstream media", disputing the then official figure of 17 fatalities by saying, "I'm hearing from people that the figure is much closer to 150".
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On 28 June 2007, Lily Allen was arrested in London for allegedly assaulting photographer Kevin Rush while she was leaving a nightclub in London's West End.
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In May 2009, French football magazine So Foot published a fake interview in which Lily Allen was quoted as making derogatory remarks about David and Victoria Beckham and Ashley and Cheryl Cole.
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Lily Allen re-activated her accounts four months later in February 2010.
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Lily Allen responded that ethnicity was not a factor in hiring the dancers, and the video was a lighthearted satirical look at objectification of women in modern pop music.
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Lily Allen's early released songs saw her singing against retro productions.
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Lily Allen's songs featured other elements, such as the ska influence on second single, "LDN".
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Lily Allen was noted for her liberal use of crude words in her lyrics.
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Lily Allen has said she cringes now when listening to tracks from Alright, Still, as it reminds her that she was a "sort of over-excitable teenager who desperately wanted attention" when she wrote it.
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Lily Allen stated that she had "always been into very black music" such as ska, reggae, and hip hop music.
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Lily Allen's melodies are influenced by the jazz improvisation techniques of American singers Blossom Dearie and Ella Fitzgerald.
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Lily Allen has received 31 awards and 73 nominations for her music, including nominations for nine BRIT Awards, one Grammy Award, three Ivor Novello Awards, one Mercury Prize and twelve NME Awards.