Lily Collins

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Lily Collins

Birth Name: Lily Jane Collins

Date of Birth: March 18, 1989

Age: 37

Birth Place: Guildford, Surrey, UK

Nationality: American, British

Height: 5' 5"

Eye Color: Hazel

Hair Color: Brown

Lily Collins is one of the most classically striking performers of her generation, a British-American actress whose screen presence draws as much from old Hollywood portraiture as it does from contemporary drama. She broke through with Mirror Mirror (2012) and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013), then expanded her reach with Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019), Mank (2020), and the global hit Emily in Paris (2020). The daughter of Phil Collins, she has assembled a career across prestige film and premium television that stands apart from her famous surname.

On screen, Collins draws focus through a face that feels composed for still photography as much as motion, with dark brows, pale skin, and green eyes that hold light equally in period drama and glossy contemporary comedy. Those brows have become a signature, framing an expression that shifts from ingenue to iron-willed depending on the material. She is currently one of the most recognizable faces on streaming television, and Emily in Paris has made her a style reference point as much as a screen one.


Selected Work

Emily in Paris (2020)
Emily Cooper

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
Liz Kendall

Okja (2017)
Lucy Mirando

To the Bone (2017)
Ellen

Les Misérables (2012)
Fantine

Mirror Mirror (2012)
Snow White