biography of Lily Collins

Lily Jane Collins  : 

(born 18 March 1989) is an English and American actress. Born in Guildford and raised in Los Angeles, she began performing on screen at the age of two in the BBC sitcom Growing Pains. In the late 2000s, she began acting and modelling more regularly, and gained recognition for her supporting role in the sports drama film The Blind Side (2009). She went on to star in several films, including the horror film Priest (2011), the thriller Abduction (2011), and the fantasy films Mirror Mirror (2012) and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013).

Collins was critically acclaimed for her portrayals of a young actress in the romantic comedy Rules Don't Apply (2016), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and a young adult with anorexia in the drama To the Bone (2017). She appeared in the biopics Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019), Tolkien (2019) and Mank (2020).

She played Fantine in the BBC miniseries Les Misérables (2018–2019), and since 2020 has portrayed marketing executive Emily Cooper in the Netflix romantic comedy series Emily in Paris, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series (as producer). She has written the memoir Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me (2017), discussing her struggles with mental health and body image.

Lily Jane Collins was born on 18 March 1989,  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.  Her maternal grandfather was a Canadian Jewish immigrant who for many years owned a men's clothing store in Beverly Hills, California.^[3][4][5][6]

After her parents' divorce in 1996 when she was six, Collins moved to Los Angeles with her mother.^[7][8] She graduated from Harvard-Westlake School and attended the University of Southern California, majoring in broadcast journalism. She was presented as a debutante at the Bal des débutantes in Paris in 2007.^[10] As a teen, she suffered from an eating disorder that she later described in her autobiography Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me

About : 

Actress who became recognized for her roles in Mirror Mirror, The Blind Side, To the Bone and Abduction. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for her starring role in the 2016 film Rules Don't Apply. In 2019 she starred in the bio pic Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile as Elizabeth Kloepfer. She began starring in the Netflix series Emily in Paris in 2020.

Before Fame :

She began acting at age two on BBC's Growing Pains, and was featured in season 3 of The Hills for wearing one of Chanel's gowns at the Hotel de Crillon.

Trivia : 

She was the recipient of the 2008 Young Hollywood Award for One to Watch. She's worked as a columnist for British Elle Girl, Seventeen, Teen Vogue, and Los Angeles Times magazines. 

• Her father's Academy Award-winning song "You'll Be In My Heart" from the animated film Tarzan (1999) was written for her.
• She auditioned for the role of "Snow White" in Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) but lost to Kristen Stewart. She later replaced Saoirse Ronan as "Snow White" in the film Mirror Mirror (2012).
• She is an outspoken anti-bullying advocate and became anti-bullying organization Bystander Revolution's first Ambassador in 2014.
• One of her first auditions was for Twilight (2008). She auditioned for "Bella Swan", but Kristen Stewart got the role.
• She designed accessories including ballet flats named after her grandmother, Jane Hale, in support of a charity providing low-cost counseling in 2008.
• In her book Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me, she revealed that as a teenager she suffered from an eating disorder and wants to open up a conversation which affects women and men around the world.
• Cites "You'll Be in My Heart" (from Tarzan (1999)) as her favorite song by her dad Phil Collins.
• She loves old antiques and anything vintage and also collects them.
• The eating disorders recovery organization Project HEAL honored Collins and writer/director Marti Noxon for their work on the film To the Bone (2017).
• She has done journalistic work for a variety of media outlets, including Nickelodeon and Teen Vogue.
• She was ranked #4 in People Magazine's 2012 World's 'Most Beautiful' Women.
• She attended the University of Southern California.
• In the year of her birth (1989), her father Phil Collins had two number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100, "Two Hearts" and the final number one of the decade, "Another Day in Paradise".
• She enjoys traveling and while in school, often visited places she learned about to further her education.
• Got engaged to Charlie McDowell in September 2020.
• She is the daughter of Phil Collins and his second wife Jill Tavelman. She is the younger half-sister of Simon Collins and Joely Collins, who are Phil Collins's children with his first wife, Andrea Collins; and older half-sister of Nicholas and Matthew, Phil's children with his third wife. Simon is a Canadian musician and Joely is a Canadian actress. She is the granddaughter of June Collins and niece of Carole Collins and Clive Collins.
• She won a 'Pandora Breakthrough Artist Award' at Glamour's Women of The Year Awards 2012.
• She attended the same high school as Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) star Tori Spelling, and went on to guest star on the 90210 (2008) reboot.
• Daughter-in-law of Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen.
• Met husband-to-be Charlie McDowell on the set of Gilded Rage.
• As of 2021, she has been in 2 films that were Oscar nominated for Best Picture: The Blind Side (2009) and Mank (2020).
• Her father, the famous pop star Phil Collins was born in London as the son of Greville Philip Austin Collins, an insurance agent, and June Collins (born Winifred Strange), a talent agent. Lily's maternal grandfather, Jack Tavelman, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Jewish emigrants from Russia. Lily's maternal grandmother, Billie Jane (Shoaff), was California-born, from a family from the Southern United States, and had English, and a smaller amount of German, ancestry.
• Maxim named her one of their "Hottest Daughters of Rock Stars" in 2009.
• She was featured at We Day Seattle 2015 as Bystander Revolution's Ambassador and delivered a speech about the power of consistent, simple actions to affect change and shift the culture of bullying toward kindness.
• Lily once auditioned for the role of Tauriel that went to actress Evangeline Lilly in Peter Jackson's 'Hobbit' films.
• She auditioned for the title role in Carrie (2013). The part eventually went to Chloë Grace Moretz.
• She was originally cast in Evil Dead (2013) but after dropping out due to scheduling conflicts, the role went to Jane Levy.
• She was considered for the role of Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). The role eventually went to Emma Stone.
• Favorite music video of her dad Phil Collins with Genesis is "I Can't Dance" (1991).
• Mentioned on Live with Kelly and Ryan that her engagement occurred while on a road trip vacation in New Mexico.
• Sister-in-law of Lilly McDowell.
• Matt Bomer honored his friend and The Last Tycoon (2016) co-star Collins with the Lacoste Spotlight Award at the 2017 Costume Designers Guild Awards.
• She has hosted several television shows and has been involved in acting and modeling.

Family Life : 

Her father is musician Phil Collins and her mother is Jill Tavelman, who served as the president of Beverly Hills Women's Club. She briefly dated her Abduction co-star Taylor Lautner for about a year. She then began dating co-star Jamie Campbell Bower from 2012 until 2013. She then dated Chris Evans briefly before rekindling her relationship with Bower in 2015 until 2018. In late 2019, she began dating director Charlie McDowell and the couple got engaged in September 2020. They married in September 2021. In January 2025, they welcomed a daughter named Tove Jane via surrogate.

Associated With : 

She was in the 2013 film adaptation of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones with James Campbell Bower.

MINI BIO : 

Lily Jane Collins was born in Guildford, Surrey, England. Her father is English musician Phil Collins, while her mother, Jill Tavelman, who is from Los Angeles, California, was president of the Beverly Hills Women's Club for three terms. Lily moved with her mother to LA at the age of five, after her parents split up. She is of Russian Jewish (from her maternal grandfather), English, and German descent.

Her first screen role was at the age of two in the BBC series Growing Pains, in 1992. Collins performed at the Youth Academy for Dramatic Arts as a child, but her main interest was journalism. She graduated from the Harvard-Westlake School, and attended the USC, where she majored in broadcast journalism. She began writing a column ("NY Confidential") for the British magazine Elle Girl in her teens as well as contributing to Seventeen, Teen Vogue, and the Los Angeles Times magazines.

After some early television appearances as a presenter/reporter (for instance, covering the 2008 US Presidential campaign as a host on the Nickelodeon show, Kids Pick the President (2000)), she made a couple of appearances on 90210 (2008) in 2009. She co-starred as the daughter of Tim McGraw and Sandra Bullock's characters in the massive box office hit The Blind Side (2009). More dramatic roles followed, and she came to worldwide attention when she played the starring role in Mirror Mirror (2012), following it up by headlining The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) and Love, Rosie (2014).

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