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Lily Jane Collins born March 18, 1989 is a British-American actress. Lily Collins is the daughter of British musician Phil Collins and his second wife, American-born Jill Tavelman, and the half-sister of actress Joely Collins and musician Simon Collins. She also has two half-brothers from her father's remarriage, Nicholas and Matthew Collins. She graduated from Harvard-Westlake School and is currently a student at the University of Southern California with a major in broadcast journalism. Collins started acting at the age of two in the BBC series Growing Pains. She moved to the United States when she was 5 and began performing theatre at the Youth Academy for Dramatic Arts. As a teenager, Lily Collins wrote a column (titled NY Confidential) for the British magazine Elle Girl. She has also written for Seventeen, Teen Vogue, and the Los Angeles Times magazines. She was chosen by Chanel to wear one of its gowns at the 2007 Bal des Débutantes (a charity ball) at the Hôtel de Crillon...