Lily Collins is a British- American actress and model. Let’s see some interesting facts and trivia about her!
1.Her middle name is Jane.
2. She was born on 18 March 1989.
3. She is 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.
4. Lily Collins was born in Guildford, Surrey.
5. After her parents’ divorce when she was five, Lily Collins moved to Los Angeles with her mother.
6. She graduated from Harvard-Westlake School and attended the University of Southern California, majoring in broadcast journalism.
7. She was presented as a debutante at the Bal des débutantes in Paris in 2007.
8. Lily Collins is the half-sister of actress Joely Collins and musician Simon Collins from her father’s first marriage, and Nicholas and Matthew Collins from her father’s third marriage
9. Lily Collins began acting at the age of two in the BBC series Growing Pains.
10. As a teenager, Lily Collins wrote a column, “NY Confidential”, for the British magazine Elle Girl.
11. She has also written for Seventeen, Teen Vogue, and the Los Angeles Times.
12. She was selected by Chanel to wear one of their gowns at the 2007 Bal des débutantes at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris, which was featured on season three of the reality television series The Hills.
13. She was picked by Spain’s Glamour magazine in 2008 as its International Model of the Year, and appeared on the magazine’s cover in August 2009. Collins covered the 2008 US presidential election as a host on the Nickelodeon series Kids Pick the President.
14. She won a 2008 Young Hollywood Award for Newest Red Carpet Correspondent.
15. Lily Collins was one of 20 women named by Maxim magazine as one of the Hottest Daughters of Rock Stars in 2009.
16. Lily Collins was reportedly cast as the lead in the 2013 remake of Evil Dead, but dropped out due to a scheduling issue.
17. In March 2012, it was announced that Collins would portray Samantha in Stuck in Love, starring alongside Jennifer Connelly, Logan Lerman, and Greg Kinnear.
18. Lily Collins then starred as Clary Fray in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, a film adaptation of the first book in The New York Times best-selling The Mortal Instruments novels, written by Cassandra Clare.
19. In October 2013, Lily Collins appeared in the music video for “City of Angels” by Thirty Seconds to Mars.
20. Lily 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.
21. She dated her The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones co-star Jamie Campbell Bower from July 2012 until August 2013. In May 2015, it was confirmed that the two had reconciled.
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