Lily Collins

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), where she discussed her struggles with mental health, including the eating disorder she suffered as a teenager.

Early life

Lily Jane Collins was born on 18 March 1989,^[1] 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.^[2] 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] Collins is the half-sister of musician Simon Collins and actress Joely Collins from her father's first marriage, and has two other younger half-brothers from her father's third marriage. Her uncle was cartoonist Clive Collins.


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.^[9] 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.^[11]