Lily Jane Collins (born 18 March 1989) is a British-American actress and model. Born in Guildford, Surrey and raised in Los Angeles, Collins began performing on the BBC sitcom Growing Pains at age two. In the late 2000s, Collins began acting and modeling more regularly, and had career breakthroughs with her performance in the sports-drama film The Blind Side, which was the third highest grossing film of 2009. He appeared in the lead roles. Stuck in Love (2012) Characters and independent romantic comedies throughout films such as Sci-Fi , The English Teacher (2013), and Love, Rosie (2014).
Collins was critically acclaimed for her role as Marla Mabre in Comedy Rules Don't Apply (2016), which earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Young Adult with controversial Netflix drama To The Bone (2017). She is credited for her work in the biographical films: she starred as JRR in the Netflix drama Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vail (2019) as Liz Kendall. Tolkien's wife Edith in Tolkien (2019), and Rita Alexander in Monk (2020), the latter of which was a decisive success, earning 10 Academy Award nominations.
Collins has played Fantine in the BBC miniseries adaptation of Les Miserables (2018-2019), and since 2020, he has played Emily Cooper in the Netflix series Emily in Paris. [1] For the latter, she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress - Television Series Music or Comedy. She debuted writing with Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me (2017), in which she discussed her struggles with mental health, including an eating disorder she experienced as a teenager. [2]
Lily Jane Collins was born on 18 March 1989 in Guildford, Surrey, [3] English musician Phil Collins and his second wife, Jill Towelman, American, former president of the Beverly Hills Women's Club. Her maternal grandfather was a Canadian Jewish immigrant who owned a men's clothing store in Beverly Hills, California for many years. [5] [6] [7] [8] Collins is the half-sister of musician Simon Collins and actress Jolie Collins from her father's first marriage, and she has two younger brothers from her father's third marriage. Her uncle is the cartoonist Clive Collins.
After her parents' divorce in 1996, when she was six, Collins moved with her mother to Los Angeles. [9] [10] He graduated from Harvard-Westlake School and attended the University of Southern California, majoring in broadcast journalism. [11] In 2007, she debuted at the Ball des Debutentes in Paris. As a teenager, Collins suffered from an eating disorder, which she later wrote in her book Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me. [13]
Collins began acting in the BBC series Growing Pains at age two. In 2009, Collins appeared in two episodes of the teen drama series 90210, including the finale of the first season. Later that year, Collins made her breakthrough in The Blind Side, co-starring Lee Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock). The film was a commercial success, [16] [17] making over $ 250 million at the box office and making it the highest grossing sports drama of all time.
In 2011, she played Lucy, the daughter of a warrior priest in Thriller Priest, [19] alongside Paul Betani. [20] [21] Although it was a critical and commercial failure, she won accolades for her performance; MTV Networks' NextMovie.com named her one of the breakout stars to watch in 2011. [22] She co-starred in an action movie hijacking with Taylor Lautner in 2011. [23]
In 2012, Collins played Snow White in Mirror Mirror, an adaptation of the fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with Julia Roberts starring as the Evil Queen Clementianna. Robbie Colin Collins from the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph wrote: "She has an adorable, sensual, almost perfect face for cinema; think of Audrey Hepburn with Liam Gallagher's eyebrows.