Lily Collins

Lily Jane Collins (born 18 March 1989) is a British and American actress. Born in Guildford and raised in Los Angeles, she began performing on screen at the age of two in the BBC sitcom ''Growing Pains''. In the late 2000s, she began acting and modelling more regularly, and gained recognition for her supporting role in the sports drama film ''The Blind Side'' (2009). She went on to star in several films, including the horror film ''Priest'' (2011), the thriller ''Abduction'' (2011), and the fantasy films ''Mirror Mirror'' (2012) and ''The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones'' (2013).

Collins was critically acclaimed for her portrayals of a young actress in the romantic comedy ''Rules Don't Apply'' (2016), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress; and a young adult with anorexia in the drama ''To the Bone'' (2017). She appeared in the biopics ''Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile'' (2019), ''Tolkien'' (2019) and ''Mank'' (2020).

She played Fantine in the BBC miniseries ''Les Misérables'' (2018–2019), and since 2020 has portrayed marketing executive Emily Cooper in the Netflix romantic comedy series ''Emily in Paris'', for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series (as producer). She has written the memoir ''Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me'' (2017), where she discussed her struggles with mental health, including the eating disorder she suffered as a teenager. Provided by Wikipedia