Lily Collins

 Lily Jane Collins, born 18 March 1989 in London in London, is an American model and actress. She was born in Guildford, Surrey and raised in Los Angeles, Collins began performing on the screen when she was just two years old on the BBC sitcom Growing Pains. In the second half of the 2000s, Collins began acting and modeling more frequently and had a career breakthrough by starring 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 in feature films such as the sci-fi action-horror Priest (2011), the psychological action-thriller Abduction (2011) as well as 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 highly praised for her performance as Marla Mabrey in the comedic series Rules Don't apply (2016) which was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy as well as for her portrayal of an anorexic young adult in the controversial Netflix drama To the Bone (2017). The biographical film work she has done has been recognized as well. She appeared in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2018) as Liz Kendall. Tolkien's wife Edith in Tolkien (2019), and in Mank as Rita Alexander in Mank (2020) The latter of which was a huge hit with critics, earning 10 Academy Award nominations.Collins played Fantine in the BBC miniseries adaptation of Les Miserables (2018-2019), and since the year the year 2020, she has been playing Emily Cooper in the Netflix series Emily in Paris. [1] For the latter she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for a Television Series Musical or Comedy. She made her writing debut with Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me (2017) in where she discussed her struggle with mental health, which included an eating disorder she suffered when she was a teenager.