Lily Collins Trivia | 40 facts about the actress

Lily Collins is a British and American actress. She’s mainly known for her role as Emily in the Netflix hit series Emily in Paris.

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1. Her full name is Lily Jane Collins.
2. She was born on 18th of March 1989 in Guildford and raised in Los Angeles.
3. In the late 2000s, Collins began acting and modelling more regularly.(2009).
4. Her father’s Academy Award-winning song “You’ll Be In My Heart” from the animated film Tarzan (1999) was written for her.
5. She auditioned for the role of “Snow White” in Snow White and the huntsman (2012) but lost to Kristen Stewart. She later replaced Saoirse Ronan as “Snow White” in the film Mirror Mirror (2012).
6. One of her first auditions was for Twilight (2008). She auditioned for “Bella Swan”, but Kristen Stewart got the role.
7. She is an outspoken anti-bullying advocate and became anti-bullying organization Bystander Revolution’s first Ambassador in 2014.
8. In her book Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me, she revealed that as a teenager she suffered from an eating disorder and wants to open up a conversation which affects women and men around the world.
9. She designed accessories including ballet flats named after her grandmother, Jane Hale, in support of a charity providing low-cost counseling in 2008.
10. She has done journalistic work for a variety of media outlets, including Nickelodeon and Teen Vogue.
11. Cites “You’ll Be in My Heart” (from Tarzan (1999)) as her favorite song by her dad Phil Collins.
12. She loves old antiques and anything vintage and also collects them.
13. She attended the University of Southern California.
14. The eating disorders recovery organization Project HEAL honored Collins and writer/director Marti Noxon for their work on the film To the bone (2017).
15. She was ranked #4 in People Magazine’s 2012 World’s ‘Most Beautiful’ Women.
16. Got engaged to Charlie McDowell in September 2020.
17. In the year of her birth (1989), her father Phil Collins had two number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100, “Two Hearts” and the final number one of the decade, “Another Day in Paradise”.
18. She enjoys traveling and while in school, often visited places she learned about to further her education.
19. She is the daughter of Phil Collins and his second wife Jill Tavelman. She is the younger half-sister of Simon Collins and Joely Collins, who are Phil Collins’s children with his first wife, Andrea Collins; and older half-sister of Nicholas and Matthew, Phil’s children with his third wife. Simon is a Canadian musician and Joely is a Canadian actress.
20. She is the granddaughter of June Collins and niece of Carole Collins and Clive Collins.
21. She won a ‘Pandora Breakthrough Artist Award’ at Glamour’s Women of The Year Awards 2012.
22. She attended the same high school as Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) star Tori Spelling, and went on to guest star on the Beverly Hills 90210 (2008) reboot.
23. Her father, the famous pop star Phil Collins was born in London as the son of Greville Philip Austin Collins, an insurance agent, and June Collins (born Winifred Strange), a talent agent. Lily’s maternal grandfather, Jack Tavelman, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Jewish emigrants from Russia. Lily’s maternal grandmother, Billie Jane (Shoaff), was California-born, from a family from the Southern United States, and had English, and a smaller amount of German, ancestry.
24. She was featured at We Day Seattle 2015 as Bystander Revolution’s Ambassador and delivered a speech about the power of consistent, simple actions to affect change and shift the culture of bullying toward kindness.
25. Maxim named her one of their “Hottest Daughters of Rock Stars” in 2009.
26. Met husband-to-be Charlie McDowell on the set of Gilded Rage.
27. As of 2021, she has been in 2 films that were Oscar nominated for Best Picture.
28. Lily once auditioned for the role of Tauriel that went to actress Evangeline Lilly in Peter Jackson’s ‘Hobbit’ films.
29. Favorite music video of her dad Phil Collins with Genesis is “I Can’t Dance” (1991).
30. Daughter-in-law of Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen.
31. She auditioned for the title role in Carrie (2013). The part eventually went to Chloë Grace Moretz.
32. She was considered for the role of Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). The role eventually went to Emma Stone.
33. Mentioned on Live with Kelly and Ryan that her engagement occurred while on a road trip vacation in New Mexico.
34. Matt Bomer honored his friend and The Last Tycoon (2016) co-star Collins with the Lacoste Spotlight Award at the 2017 Costume Designers Guild Awards.
35. She has hosted several television shows and has been involved in acting and modeling.
36. Collins is an outspoken anti-bullying advocate and is serving as a Celebrity Ambassador to anti-bullying organisation Bystander Revolution.
37. Since 2018, Collins is an ambassador of the GO Campaign, a nonprofit organisation that raises awareness and funds to improve the lives of orphans and vulnerable children around the world.
38. 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.
39. In September 2020, she announced her engagement to American film director and writer Charlie McDowell.
40. They were married on 4 September 2021 at Dunton Hot Springs, Colorado.