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   Lily Collins by Sara Hall

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Lily Collins achieved worldwide attention through her role as Clary Fray in the 2013 movie The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, an adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s bestselling book The Mortal Instruments. She was born in Surrey, England on 18 March, 1989 and is the daughter of the famous English singer Phil Collins. Lily grew up in an English-American household in Hollywood with strong roots through her mother, Jill Tavelman. She is part of a sprawling family with many half brothers and sisters thanks to her father’s three different marriages over the course of time. It may be that growing up in the midst of so many siblings and so much complexity has given Collins the modesty and self-effacing charm for which she is now famous. Collins began her acting career at the age of two with a role in the BBC television series, Growing Pains. She moved to California with her mother when her parents divorced. She was five years old then. She went to Harvard-Westlake School and then studied Broadcast Journalism at the University of Southern California. However, during all this time, she kept contact with the world of fashion, journalism and media comment in the UK. Through her teens, Collins wrote opinion pieces and columns for a variety of magazines including Elle Girl, Seventeen, Teen Vogue and the Los Angeles Times.  As such, Collins is an actress who knows how to speak her mind. She is able to comment on the world and her own experiences with humour, wit and elegance. However, she is adamant about keeping the details of her private life to herself. The experience of her parents’ divorce, she says, has shown her the difficulty of living a life in the full glare of the media. In this sense, Collins is both street savvy as well as school smart.