Lily Collins

Biography

Lily Jane Collins, born on March 18, 1989, in Guildford, Surrey, is a versatile actress and model with dual British and American citizenship. She spent her formative years in Los Angeles, where her passion for performance began at the tender age of two, starring in the BBC sitcom *Growing Pains*. By the late 2000s, Collins immersed herself in acting and modeling, achieving significant recognition with her breakthrough role in the 2009 sports-drama film *The Blind Side*, which became one of the year's highest-grossing films.

In the following years, she showcased her talent in various genres, appearing in films such as the sci-fi horror *Priest* (2011), the action-thriller *Abduction* (2011), and the fantasy *Mirror Mirror* (2012). Collins also starred in romantic comedies like *Stuck in Love* (2012), *The English Teacher* (2013), and *Love, Rosie* (2014).

Her performances in *Rules Don't Apply* (2016) and *To the Bone* (2017) garnered critical acclaim, with the former earning her a Golden Globe nomination. She further impressed audiences in notable biographical roles, portraying Liz Kendall in *Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile* (2019), Edith Tolkien in *Tolkien* (2019), and Rita Alexander in *Mank* (2020), the latter of which received 10 Academy Award nominations.

Collins gained additional fame as Fantine in the BBC adaptation of *Les Misérables* (2018-2019) and currently stars as Emily Cooper in Netflix's *Emily in Paris*, a role that also earned her a Golden Globe nomination. In 2017, she published her debut book, *Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me*, where she candidly discussed her mental health struggles, including her experiences with an eating disorder during