Lily Collins

Despite this, for her role as Marla Mabrey, Collins received her first Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical at the 74th Golden Globe Awards.

Lily Jane Collins (born 18 March 1989) is a British and American actress.

Born in Guildford and raised in Los Angeles, Collins began performing on screen at the age of two in the BBC sitcom Growing Pains.

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 of 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.

In the late 2000s, Collins began acting and modelling more regularly, and gained recognition for her supporting role in the sports drama film The Blind Side (2009).

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.

Collins began acting at the age of two in the BBC series Growing Pains.

In 2009, Collins appeared in two episodes of the teen drama series 90210, including the first season's finale.

Later that year, Collins had her breakthrough starring in the film The Blind Side as Collins Tuohy, the daughter of Leigh Anne Tuohy (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.

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).

In 2011, she played the warrior priest's daughter Lucy in the thriller Priest, opposite Paul Bettany.

Although it was a critical and commercial failure, she earned praise for her performance; MTV Networks' NextMovie.com named her one of the Breakout Stars to Watch for in 2011.

She co-starred in the 2011 action film Abduction with Taylor Lautner.

In 2012, Collins played Snow White in Mirror Mirror, an adaptation of the fairytale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Robbie Collin from the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph wrote of Collins: "She has an adorable, sensational, almost perfect face for cinema; think Audrey Hepburn with the eyebrows of Liam Gallagher. Her smile is the platonic ideal of cheeky."

Collins made her singing debut in the film, performing an English re-written cover of "I Believe (in Love)".

Also in 2012, Collins portrayed Samantha in Stuck in Love.

Collins was initially cast as the lead in the 2013 remake of Evil Dead, but dropped out due to a scheduling issue.

She played the title role as an earth-visiting alien in M83's music video "Claudia Lewis", released in August 2013.

She starred as Clary Fray in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, a film adaptation of the first book in The Mortal Instruments novels, written by Cassandra Clare.

In October 2013, Collins appeared in the music video for "City of Angels" by Thirty Seconds to Mars.

The role earned her a Teen Choice Award nomination in 2014.

In 2014, Collins starred as Rosie Dunne in the film adaptation of Love, Rosie, Love, Rosie was negatively received, although her performance was praised, with Donald Clarke of The Irish Times describing her as "perfectly charming."

Collins was critically acclaimed for her roles as a young actress in the romantic comedy Rules Don't Apply (2016), 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 (2017).

Collins had a leading role as aspiring actress Marla Mabrey in the romantic comedy-drama Rules Don't Apply (2016).

When the film was released in November, it received mixed reviews and grossed $3.9 million against its $25 million budget.

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.

Amazon picked up the pilot to series on 27 July 2016 but later cancelled their plans for a second season in September in 2017.

In March 2016, Collins joined the anorexia drama film To the Bone in the lead role, written and directed by Marti Noxon.

She has written the memoir 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.

Collins played Fantine in the BBC miniseries Les Misérables (2018–2019), and since 2020, she has portrayed marketing executive Emily Cooper in the Netflix romantic comedy series Emily in Paris.

For the latter, she received nominations 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 went on to appear in the biopics Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019), Tolkien (2019), and Mank (2020).