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Lily Collins
Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
Lily Jane Collins (born 18 March 1989) is a British and American actress and model. Born in Guildford, Surrey and raised in Los Angeles, Collins began performing on screen at the…
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Lily Jane Collins (born 18 March 1989) is a British and American actress and model. Born in Guildford, Surrey and raised in Los Angeles, Collins began performing on screen at the age of two in the BBC comedy drama Growing Pains. In the late 2000s, Collins began acting and modelling more regularly, and she had a career breakthrough with her performance in the sports-drama film The Blind Side, which was the third highest-grossing film of 2009. She went on to appear in leading roles across feature films such as the sci-fi action-horror Priest (2011), the psychological action-thriller Abduction (2011), the fantasy Mirror Mirror (2012), the urban fantasy The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013), and the independent romantic comedies Stuck in Love (2012), The English Teacher (2013), and Love, Rosie (2014). Collins was critically acclaimed for her roles as Marla Mabrey in the comedy Rules Don't Apply (2016), which earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and for her portrayal of a young adult with anorexia in the controversial Netflix drama To the Bone (2017). She has also achieved recognition for her work in biographical films: she starred as Liz Kendall in the Netflix drama Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019), as J.R.R. Tolkien's wife Edith in Tolkien (2019), and as Rita Alexander in Mank (2020), the latter of which was a critical success, earning 10 Academy Award nominations. Collins played Fantine in the BBC miniseries adaptation of Les Misérables (2018–2019), and, since 2020, she has portrayed Emily Cooper in the Netflix series Emily in Paris. For the latter, she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. She made her writing debut with Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me (2017) in which she discussed her struggles with mental health, including an eating disorder she suffered as a teenager.
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2025
Lurker
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Insider
TV show Sig selv
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2025
The Summer Book
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
Movie Self
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2024
MaXXXine
Movie Molly Bennett
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2024
Dinner Time Live with David Chang
TV show Self
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2023
Memory
Movie Thanks
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2022
On the Line: The Richard Williams Story
Movie Thanks
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2022
Windfall
Movie Wife
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2021
Calls
TV show Camila (voice)
- 2021
- 2020
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2020
Mank
Movie Rita Alexander
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2020
Emily in Paris
TV show Emily Cooper
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2020
Inheritance
Movie Lauren Monroe
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2019
Tolkien
Movie Edith Bratt
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2019
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Movie Liz Kendall
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2018
Les Misérables
TV show Fantine
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2018
A Wizard's Tale
Movie Princess Dawn (voice)
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2017
The Dig
Movie Zoe
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2017
The Last Tycoon
TV show Cecelia Brady
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2017
Okja
Movie Red
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2017
To the Bone
Movie Ellen
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2016
Rules Don't Apply
Movie Marla Mabrey
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2016
Quotidien
TV show Self - Guest
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2014
Love, Rosie
Movie Rosie Dunne
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self - Guest
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2013
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Movie Clary Fray
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2013
Stuck in Love
Movie Samantha 'Sam' Borgens
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2013
The English Teacher
Movie Halle Anderson
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2012
Mirror Mirror
Movie Snow White
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2011
Abduction
Movie Karen Murphy
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2011
Priest
Movie Lucy Pace
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2009
The Blind Side
Movie Collins Tuohy
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2009
BrainSurge
TV show
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2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV show Self - Guest
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2008
90210
TV show Phoebe Abrams
