Lily Collins

Known for ActingBorn 1989-03-18 (age 37)Guildford, Surrey, England, UK

Lily Jane Collins (born 18 March 1989) is a British and American actress and model. Born in Guildford, Surrey and raised in Los Angeles, Collins began performing on screen at the age of two in the BBC comedy drama Growing Pains. In the late 2000s, Collins began acting and modelling more regularly, and she had a career breakthrough with her performance in the sports-drama film The Blind Side, which was the third highest-grossing film of 2009. She went on to appear in leading roles across feature films such as the sci-fi action-horror Priest (2011), the psychological action-thriller Abduction (2011), the fantasy Mirror Mirror (2012), the urban fantasy The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013), and the independent romantic comedies Stuck in Love (2012), The English Teacher (2013), and Love, Rosie (2014). Collins was critically acclaimed for her roles as Marla Mabrey in the comedy Rules Don't Apply (2016), which earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and for her portrayal of a young adult with anorexia in the controversial Netflix drama To the Bone (2017). She has also achieved recognition for her work in biographical films: she starred as Liz Kendall in the Netflix drama Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019), as J.R.R. Tolkien's wife Edith in Tolkien (2019), and as Rita Alexander in Mank (2020), the latter of which was a critical success, earning 10 Academy Award nominations. Collins played Fantine in the BBC miniseries adaptation of Les Misérables (2018–2019), and, since 2020, she has portrayed Emily Cooper in the Netflix series Emily in Paris. For the latter, she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. She made her writing debut with Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me (2017) in which she discussed her struggles with mental health, including an eating disorder she suffered as a teenager.Read more

Movies & web series

Insider

Teen Choice Awards

BrainSurge

On the Line: The Richard Williams Story

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Love, Rosie

Emily in Paris

The Blind Side

Okja

Stuck in Love

Les Misérables

The Summer Book

Tarzan

To the Bone

Calls

Memory

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

The Last Tycoon

Tolkien

Dinner Time Live with David Chang

The Dig

Growing Pains

Mank

Lurker

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Inheritance

MaXXXine

The Netflix Afterparty: The Best Shows of the Worst Year

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Mirror Mirror

Priest

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

A Wizard's Tale

Abduction

90210

Rules Don't Apply

Windfall

The English Teacher

Quotidien

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Late Night with Seth Meyers

This Morning

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Good Morning America

Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank

Polly Pocket