Lily Collins

At 35 years old, Lily Collins has this physical status:

Lily Jane Collins (born 18 March 1989) is an English-American actress, model, and writer.

The daughter of English musician Phil Collins and American Jill Tavelman, she was born in Surrey and moved to Los Angeles as a child.

Her first screen role was at the age of two in the BBC series Growing Pains.

She went on to study broadcast journalism at the University of Southern California, and as a teenager, wrote for Seventeen magazine, Teen Vogue, and The Los Angeles Times.

She was named International Model of the Year by Spain's Glamour magazine after being selected by Chanel to wear one of their dresses at the Hotel de Crillon in 2007. She has had leading roles in films such as the sci-fi action-horror film Priest (2011) and the psychological action-thriller Abduction (2011), and the fantasy Mirror Mirror (2012) in the role of Snow White.

In 2013, she received wider recognition after taking on the role of Clary Fray in the fantasy The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, for which she was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress – Action and an MTV Movie Award.

She is also known for her roles in independent films, such as the romantic comedy-drama Stuck in Love (2012), the romantic comedy The English Teacher (2013), and the romantic comedy-drama Love, Rosie (2014).

In 2016, she won the New Hollywood Film Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her role as Marla Mabrey in Rules Don't Apply.

In 2017, her performance as a young adult with anorexia in the Netflix drama To the Bone was praised, with Collins herself having overcome an eating disorder in the years before the film, and she and director Marti Noxon were honored at Project Heal for the film.

She starred as Fantine in the BBC miniseries adaptation of Les Misérables (2018–2019), and in 2019 appeared in two biographical films, the Netflix drama Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, and as Edith Tolkien in Tolkien. Collins is also a published author, with her first book, Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me, being released in 2017 to critical praise.

Early life

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. Her maternal grandfather was a Canadian Jewish immigrant who for many years owned a men's clothing store in Beverly Hills, California. Collins is the half-sister of musician Simon Collins and actress Joely Collins from her father's first marriage, and she has two other younger half-brothers from her father's third marriage. Her uncle was the cartoonist Clive Collins.

After her parents' divorce in 1996, which occurred when she was six, Collins moved to Los Angeles with her mother. 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. As a teenager, Collins suffered from an eating disorder that she later revealed in her book, Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me.

Personal life

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. In September 2020, she announced her engagement to American film director and writer Charlie McDowell. They were married on 4 September 2021 at Dunton Hot Springs, Colorado.

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Career

Collins started acting in the BBC series Growing Pains at the age of two. Collins appeared in two episodes of the teen drama series 90210, including the first season's finale. Collins Tuohy, Leigh Anne Tuohy's daughter, had her breakthrough role in The Blind Side later this year. (Sandra Bullock's character) The film was a commercial success, grossing over $250 million at the box-office and emerging as the highest-grossing sports drama of all time.

Lucy in the thriller Priest played by Alan Bettany in 2011. Despite being a critical and commercial failure, she was praised for her work; MTV Networks' NextMovie.com named her one of the Breakout Stars to Watch in 2011. Taylor Lautner co-starred in the 2011 action film Abduction.

In 2012, Collins appeared in Mirror Mirror, an adaptation of the fairytale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, co-starring Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen Clementianna. The Daily Telegraph's Robbie Collin wrote about Collins: "She has an adorable, magical, almost perfect face for cinema; I like Audrey Hepburn's eyebrows; Liam Gallagher's. Her smile is the platonic ideal of cheeky. Collins made her film debut in the film when she wrote an English re-written version of "I Believe (in Love)" in English. Samantha was also portrayed Samantha in Stuck in Love in 2012, starring Jennifer Connelly, Logan Lerman, and Greg Kinnear.

Collins was initially cast as the lead in the 2013 revival of Evil Dead but it was eventually cancelled due to a scheduling problem. Claudia Lewis, the title character in M83's music video Claudia Lewis played an earth-visiting alien. Clary Fray appeared in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, a film version of Cassandra Clare's best-selling The Mortal Instruments novels. In 2014, her work earned her a Teen Choice Award nomination. Collins appeared in "City of Angels" by Thirty Seconds to Mars in October 2013. Collins starred in Love, Rosie, alongside Sam Claflin, written by Cecelia Ahern in 2014. Rosie's love was sluggish, even though her appearance was lauded, with Donald Clarke of The Irish Times describing her as "fully charming."

Marla Mabrey, a leading role in the romantic comedy-drama Rules Don't Apply (2016) starring Alden Ehrenreich, director Warren Beatty, who also appeared as billionaire Howard Hughes. When the film was released in November, it received mixed feedback and only raised $3.9 million against its $25 million budget. Despite this, Collins received her first Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical at the 74th Golden Globe Awards for her role as Marla Mabrey. Collins was part of a pilot built for The Last Tycoon, which was loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's last book The Last Tycoon. She portrayed Cecelia Brady, Pat Brady's daughter, who was played by Kelsey Grammer. On July 27, 2016, Amazon announced the pilot to be on display, but later in September, 2017 they cancelled plans for a second season.

Collins appeared in To the Bone, an anorexia drama film written and directed by Marti Noxon, in March 2016. Ellen or Eli, a 20-year-old woman who is suffering from anorexia nervosa, is the subject of the film. It premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2017 as a contender in the United States. A dramatic competition has risen. On July 14, 2017, Netflix unveiled it around the world. When the film first premiered on Netflix, there was some doubt about whether it would be triggering for people with eating disorders. After being accused of glamorizing suicide, the controversy was also influenced by another Netflix original show 13 Reasons Why. Despite the tabo topic, Collins' portrayal of Ellen was described as "exemplary work by Lily Collins in the central role." "Ella's sarcastic cracking negativity in a different film may have made her an insufferable fount of wisecracking negativity," Collins' appearance is more subtle than that, and the script gives her ample opportunity to reveal the character's more complex, vulnerable edges."

Collins appeared in the Netflix drama film Okja, directed by Bong Joon-ho, alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Tilda Swinton. At the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, the film competed for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section and received a four-minute standing ovation after its premiere. On Netflix on June 28, 2017, it was the first movie to be released on Netflix. It was announced in 2017 that Les Misérables would be adapted by Andrew Davies into a BBC miniseries starring Dominic West and David Oyelowo. Collins played Fantine, a young woman in Paris who is abandoned by her wealthy husband, compelled her to look after their child, Cosette, on her own. In Belgium and Northern France, they began filming the series in February 2018. Collins' performance as Fantine was lauded by critics and admirers, although another commentator claimed that "Collins] portrays the tragic Fantine with a "magnific" appearance, although another critic claimed that "Lily Collins does not sing her adored soul out when she is abandoned by her lover. In addition, she impressed me from the start with her emotionally vivacious appearance."

In 2019, Collins co-starred with Zac Efron in the drama Extreme Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, directed by Joe Berlinger. Elizabeth Kendall, Ted Bundy's long-time girlfriend, has trouble recognizing that her boyfriend is a serial murderer. On January 26, the film made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Collins co-starred Edith Tolkien, author J. R. Tolkien's wife, in the biographical film Tolkien, with Nicholas Hoult in the title role. Filming began in October 2017 and ended in December, and Tolkien was announced on May 10th.

Collins starred opposite Simon Pegg in the thriller Inheritance directed by Vaughn Stein and Emily in Paris, a Netflix television series about a young American living in Paris in 2020. Emily Collins received her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. In the critically acclaimed film Mank, she portrayed Rita Alexander, an English transcriber to writer Herman J. Mankiewicz. Collins will appear in Hope Dickinson Leach's direction opposite Jack O'Connell and in Gilded Rage, opposite Christoph Waltz and Bill Skarsghrd, produced by Jake Gyllenhamal and directed by Charlie McDowell.

Collins would produce a new film about the children's toy Polly Pocket while still playing the title role in June 2021.

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