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My Take
What strikes me most about Lily Collins is the discipline humming beneath the glamour. She was on a BBC set at age two, which usually produces either burnout or entitlement, yet she chose to study journalism at USC Annenberg while building her acting career, which tells me she wanted tools, not just fame. Her breakout in The Blind Side showed warmth; her later work reveals a flinty intelligence behind those famous brows. I admire performers who treat celebrity as a craft to be managed rather than a prize to be consumed, and Collins strikes me as exactly that kind of professional: graceful in public, rigorous in private, quietly ambitious in the best way.
Overview
Lily Jane Collins (born 18 March 1989) is an English 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).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Lily Collins
- Name (Japanese)
- リリー・コリンズ
- Reading
- りりー・こりんず
- Born
- March 18, 1989 (age 37)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Snake
- Origin
- Guildford, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 165 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / model / film actor / socialite / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.