Celebrity Biographies
Lily Collins
Lily Collins is a young British actress and model who has been growing artistically in recent years. Everything indicated that she would end up in show business, since her father is the famous singer Phil Collins.
She was born in Surrey, United Kingdom, on March 18, 1989. Lily is the daughter of Jill Travelman, her father’s second wife. She has several stepbrothers and stepsisters who are into music and acting. After finishing her studies at Harvard-Westlake School, she decided to specialize in television journalism at the University of Southern California, thanks to which she was able to write for magazines such as “Los Angeles Times”, “Teen Vogue”, “Seventeen”. On the other hand, the Nickelodeon channel sent her as a correspondent at the Kids Choice Awards.
After a few years dedicated to the news media, Collins decides to immerse himself in acting. She suddenly sees herself working with well-known stars. Her beginnings on television were with the series Sensación de vivir: la nueva generación , in which she appeared in two episodes. In 2009 she played the daughter of Oscar winner Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side , a drama about American football and second chances; Just two years later, she linked two projects: El sicario de Dios and Sin salida . Both were entertainment products that did not get a great reception, although her name did not come off badly. On the set of the filmJohn Singleton began a brief relationship with the leading man, Taylor Lautner .
His first lead role came in 2012 with the adaptation of the Grimm Brothers’ tale, Snow White (Mirror, Mirror) . In this fantasy tape focused from the vision of the stepmother ( Julia Roberts ), Lily played the young Snow White. That same year, she released A Winter at the Beach , a highly entertaining romantic comedy about a writer, his love life, and his family. Her secondary career continued with Miss Sinclair (2013), where she worked with Greg Kinnear and Julianne Moore .in a drama about the failure of dreams. Until the boom in her career came in 2013 with the adaptation of the novel “Shadowhunters”, an adventure and fantasy film with monsters and lots of action. The film did not garner good reviews, but it helped her to make herself known to the whole world and begin her relationship with Jamie Campbell Bower.
Lily is still the same humble girl and fame hasn’t changed her: “I love spending time with my friends, but a lot of my best friends are people I knew from school who aren’t in the business… We like to go to the movies , cooking or bowling. I have learned a lot about how to keep your private life. ”, She stated at a press conference after the premiere of Shadowhunters: City of Bones . A year later, she premiered Los unforeseen in love, a romantic film about friendship, love and the difficulties of distancing.