Lily Jane Collins was born on 18 March 1989 and is a British and American actress.
42 Facts About Lily Collins
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Lily Collins went on to star in several films, including the horror film Priest, the thriller Abduction, and the fantasy films Mirror Mirror and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
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Lily Collins was critically acclaimed for her roles as a young actress in the romantic comedy Rules Don't Apply, which earned her a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and for her portrayal of a young adult with anorexia in the drama To the Bone.
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Lily Collins went on to appear in the biopics Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, Tolkien, and Mank.
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Lily Collins played Fantine in the BBC miniseries Les Miserables, and since 2020, she has portrayed marketing executive Emily Cooper in the Netflix romantic comedy series Emily in Paris.
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Lily Collins has written the memoir Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me in which she discussed her struggles with mental health, including an eating disorder she suffered as a teenager.
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Lily Jane Collins was born on 18 March 1989 in Guildford, Surrey, the daughter of English musician Phil Collins and his second wife, Jill Tavelman, an American who is the former president of the Beverly Hills Women's Club.
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Lily Collins's maternal grandfather was a Canadian Jewish immigrant who for many years owned a men's clothing store in Beverly Hills, California.
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Lily Collins graduated from Harvard-Westlake School and attended the University of Southern California, majoring in broadcast journalism.
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Lily Collins was presented as a debutante at the Bal des debutantes in Paris in 2007.
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Lily Collins began acting at the age of two in the BBC series Growing Pains.
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In 2009, Lily Collins appeared in two episodes of the teen drama series 90210, including the first season's finale.
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Later that year, Lily Collins had her breakthrough starring in the film The Blind Side as Lily Collins Tuohy, the daughter of Leigh Anne Tuohy.
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Lily Collins co-starred in the 2011 action film Abduction with Taylor Lautner.
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In 2012, Lily Collins played Snow White in Mirror Mirror, an adaptation of the fairytale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, co-starring Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen Clementianna.
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Also in 2012, Lily Collins portrayed Samantha in Stuck in Love, starring alongside Jennifer Connelly, Logan Lerman, and Greg Kinnear.
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Lily Collins was initially cast as the lead in the 2013 remake of Evil Dead, but dropped out due to a scheduling issue.
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Lily Collins played the title role as an earth-visiting alien in M83's music video Claudia Lewis, released in August 2013.
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Lily Collins then starred as Clary Fray in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, a film adaptation of the first book in The New York Times best-selling The Mortal Instruments novels, written by Cassandra Clare.
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In October 2013, Lily Collins appeared in the music video for "City of Angels" by Thirty Seconds to Mars.
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In 2014, Lily Collins starred as Rosie Dunne in the film adaptation of Love, Rosie, alongside Sam Claflin, written by Cecelia Ahern.
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Lily Collins had a leading role as aspiring actress Marla Mabrey, alongside Alden Ehrenreich, in the romantic comedy-drama Rules Don't Apply, from filmmaker Warren Beatty, who starred as billionaire Howard Hughes.
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In 2016, Collins was part of a pilot produced for The Last Tycoon, loosely based on F Scott Fitzgerald's last book The Last Tycoon.
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Lily Collins played Cecelia Brady, daughter of Pat Brady, who was played by Kelsey Grammer.
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In March 2016, Lily Collins joined the anorexia drama film To the Bone in the lead role, written and directed by Marti Noxon.
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Lily Collins was cast in the Netflix drama film Okja directed by Bong Joon-ho, alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Tilda Swinton.
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Lily Collins starred as Fantine, a young woman in Paris who is abandoned by her wealthy lover, forcing her to look after their child, Cosette, on her own.
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In 2019, Lily Collins co-starred with Zac Efron in the drama Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, directed by Joe Berlinger.
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Lily Collins plays Elizabeth Kendall, Ted Bundy's long-time girlfriend, who struggles to accept that her boyfriend is a serial killer.
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Also that year, Collins co-starred as Edith Tolkien, the wife of author JR R Tolkien, in the biographical film Tolkien, with Nicholas Hoult in the title role.
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In 2020, Lily Collins starred opposite Simon Pegg in the thriller Inheritance directed by Vaughn Stein, and in Emily in Paris, a Netflix television series about a young American working in Paris.
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Lily Collins was scheduled to star in The Cradle directed by Hope Dickinson Leach, opposite Jack O'Connell, and in Gilded Rage opposite Christoph Waltz and Bill Skarsgard, produced by Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Charlie McDowell.
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In June 2021, it was announced that Lily Collins would produce a new film about the children's toy Polly Pocket while playing the title role.
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Lily Collins has written for Seventeen, Teen Vogue, and the Los Angeles Times.
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Lily Collins was selected by Chanel to wear one of their gowns at the 2007 Bal des debutantes at the Hotel de Crillon in Paris, which was featured on season three of the reality television series The Hills.
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Lily Collins was picked by Spain's Glamour magazine in 2008 as its International Model of the Year, and appeared on the magazine's cover in August 2009.
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Lily Collins covered the 2008 US presidential election as a host on the Nickelodeon series Kids Pick the President.
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Lily Collins won a 2008 Young Hollywood Award for Newest Red Carpet Correspondent.
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Lily Collins was one of 20 women named by Maxim magazine as one of the Hottest Daughters of Rock Stars in 2009.
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Lily Collins is an outspoken anti-bullying advocate and is serving as a Celebrity Ambassador to anti-bullying organisation Bystander Revolution.
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Since 2018, Lily Collins is an ambassador of the GO Campaign, a nonprofit organisation that raises awareness and funds to improve the lives of orphans and vulnerable children around the world.
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Lily Collins stated in 2013 that she does not like to discuss the interest in her relationships publicly due to witnessing the difficulties caused by the media coverage of her parents' divorce.