Lily Collins

Lily Jane Collins (born March 18, 1989) is a British-American actress.

Life and Career
Collins is the daughter of British musician Phil Collins and his second wife, American-born Jill Tavelman, and the half-sister of actress Joely Collins and musician Simon Collins. She also has two half-brothers from her father's remarriage, Nicholas and Matthew Collins. She graduated from Harvard-Westlake School and is currently a student at the University of Southern California with a major in broadcast journalism.undefinedCollins started acting at the age of two in the BBC series Growing Pains. She moved to the United States when she was 5 and began performing theatre at the Youth Academy for Dramatic Arts.

As a teenager, Collins wrote a column (titled NY Confidential) for the British magazine Elle Girl.undefinedShe has also written for Seventeen,undefinedTeen Vogue,undefinedand the Los Angeles Times magazines.

She was chosen by Chanel to wear one of its gowns at the 2007 Bal des Débutantes (a charity ball) at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris, which was featured on series 3 of the reality TV show The Hills.undefinedShe was picked by Spain's Glamour magazine in 2008 as their "International model of the year"undefinedand appeared on the magazine's cover in August 2009.

Collins covered the 2008 US Presidential campaign as a host on the Nickelodeon show Kids Pick the President.

She won a 2008 Young Hollywood Award for "Newest Red Carpet Correspondent."undefinedShe has appeared in two episodes of the television show 90210, including the 2008-2009 season finale. Collins was one of twenty women named by Maxim magazine as one of "The Hottest Daughters of Rock Stars" in 2009.

Collins was in the 2009 film The Blind Side as Collins Tuohy, the daughter of Sandra Bullock's character Leigh Anne Tuohy. She was also reported to have the role of the warrior priest's niece Lucy in the upcoming thriller Priest, playing opposite Paul Bettany.

In 2009, she also appeared in the second Celebrity episode of BrainSurge, coming in third place.

MTV Networks' NextMovie.com named her one of the 'Breakout Stars to Watch for in 2011'.undefinedCollins is set to star in the first film adaptation of the New York Times bestselling “The Mortal Instruments” novels by Cassandra Clare, playing sixteen-year-old Clary Fray.undefined

Collins starred in the action-thriller film Abduction opposite Taylor Lautner in 2011.

Collins has been cast in the starring role in an upcoming adaptation of the Snow White fairytale, costarring Julia Roberts.