'My dad never made a call on my behalf to anyone – not to a producer, a director or a casting agent. 'I didn't want to have people open doors for me,' she said. She's previously admitted she first realised the level of her father's fame when they were on a family trip to Disneyland when she was a child, and she saw a man had the music icon's face on his t-shirt.Īnd she insists that her success has nothing to do with her famous father. The pair have since had a famously rocky relationship, but Lily penned in her 2017 that she had forgiven her father for not always being present in her life when she was growing up. Lily, who got her big break in the 2009 film The Blind Side, is now the star of the hit Netflix show Emily in Paris Lily was five when Collins split from her mother, reportedly ending the marriage by fax, before moving to the tax haven of Switzerland for the next 20 years.įollowing the break-up in 1994, Lily and her mother, an antiques dealer, moved to Los Angeles and the star would only see her father during school holidays. Her big break came in the sports drama film The Blind Side in 2009, appearing alongside Sandra Bullock.
Her path to showbiz started at the tender age of two when she made her small screen debut in the BBC series Growing Pains.īut it was only when she was 15 that she decided to set her sights on an acting career in a serious way, and landed a role in popular teen drama 90201. The musician is worth around £115m and has sold 150m albums worldwide. Lily, who was born in Surrey, is the only child from her father Phil Collin's second marriage to American Jill Tavelman. Lily was five when Collins split from her mother, reportedly ending the marriage by fax, before moving to the tax haven of Switzerland for the next 20 years