Lily Collins, daughter of singer Phil Collins, won't have waited long to catch the limelight. From the age of two, she appeared in the cast of a British television series, What's Up, Doctor. Three years later, when her parents divorced, she moved to live with her mother in Los Angeles. Before devoting herself to comedy, Lily Collins studied and developed a passion for journalism. While she was only a teenager, she published in several fashion magazines ( Elle Girl, Seventeen, Teen Vogue ).



While pursuing a journalism course at the University of Southern California, she is divided between her modelling career and her first roles in the cinema, where her rise is meteoric. After an appearance in the 90210 Beverly Hills Next Generation series, it only takes four feature films to headline. We first find her in The Blind Side (2009, unpublished in France) alongside Sandra Bullock.



In 2011, she played the distressed niece of Priest, this vampire hunter hero played by Paul Bettany. The same year, she runs wildly to discover Taylor Lautner's past in Secret Identity. Lily Collins' life then turns to the fairy tale with Snow White (2012). By dressing as the princess of the title role, she crosses paths with Julia Roberts, transformed into an evil queen, and thus lands her first lead role in the cinema.





The following year, the actress was offered the lead role in the teenage fantasy film The Mortal Instruments: the City of Darkness adapted from the first volume of a successful romantic saga of which she is also an avid reader. Lily then stars in the romantic comedy Love, Rosie before joining Keanu Reeves in the drama To The Bone for Netflix. She camps there Ellen, an anorexic young woman who tries to reconstitute herself.



The actress returns to work for the popular streaming platform in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, a film that looks back on Ted Bundy's murderous journey. Lily plays the girlfriend of the serial killer played by Zac Efron. Always for Netflix, actress slips into the red suit in Okja of Bong Joon-Ho. In 2019, the British became the wife of the famous writer JRR Tolkien in Tolkien with Nicholas Hoult.

