By StephanieLee Elliott
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
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). 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), discussing her struggles with mental health and body image.
Lily Jane Collins was born on 18 March 1989, the daughter of English musician Phil Collins and his second wife, Jill Tavelman, an American who is the former president of the Beverly Hills Women’s Club. Her maternal grandfather was a Canadian Jewish immigrant who for many years owned a men’s clothing store in Beverly Hills, California. Collins is the half-sister of musician Simon Collins and actress Joely Collins from her father’s first marriage, and has two other younger half-brothers from her father’s third marriage. Her uncle was cartoonist Clive Collins.
After her parents’ divorce in 1996 when she was six, Collins moved to Los Angeles with her mother. She graduated from Harvard-Westlake School and attended the University of Southern California, majoring in broadcast journalism.
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Born
- John C. Calhoun (7th U.S. vice president) –
- Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th U.S. president) –
- Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (composer) –
- Rudolf Diesel (inventor) –
- Tristram Coffin (writer) –
- Robert Donat (actor) –
- Herman Tarnower (physician) –
- Wesley Buchele (American agricultural engineer ) –
- Peter Graves (actor) –
- George Plimpton (author) –
- John Updike (author) –
- Charley Pride (singer) –
- Wilson Pickett (singer) –
- Kevin Dobson (actor) –
- Ingemar Stenmark (skier) –
- Mike Rowe (television host) –
- Vanessa Williams (actress) –
- Bonnie Blair (speedskater, Olympic gold medalist) –
- Queen Latifah (singer & actress) –
- Dane Cook (comedian) –
- Adam Levine (musician) –
- Lily Collins (actress) –
Died
- Louis Bromfield (author) –
- Eric Fromm (author) –
- Maude Farris-Luse (died at 115 years, 56 days) –
- Alonzo Decker, Jr. (turned tool manufacturer Black & Decker into corporate giant) –
- Natasha Richardson (actress) –
- Fess Parker (actor) –
Events
- British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act –
- Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourned for the last time –
- Telephone communication established between London and the Continent –
- Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to six years in jail after his first civil disobedience campaign against British rule in India –
- First electric razor marketed –
- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states must supply free legal aid to indigent clients charged with serious criminal offenses –
- Russian cosmonaut Aleksei A. Leonov became the first man to float freely in space, on a lifeline attached to Soviet spacecraft Voskhod –
- Fourteen NATO members (all except France) expressed their support for the North Atlantic Treaty and the principle of military integration –
- The tanker Torrey Canyon was wrecked near Cornwall, England, and discharged more than 31,000,000 gallons of crude oil –
- U.S. postal workers went on strike –
- Most Arab oil companies ended oil embargo against U.S. –
- Capital Cities Communications, Inc., announced the purchase of American Broadcasting Companies for $3.5 billion –
- Fleet Financial Corp. and Norstar Bancorp swapped stock in a $1.3 billion merger –
- Daylilies return to Earth on space shuttle Discovery –
- Largest art theft in the United States at the time ($500 million) occurred in Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston –
- Sumatran tiger born, Sacramento Zoo, California –
Weather
- Great Tri-State Tornado: Missouri, Illinois, Indiana – most deadly in U.S. history – killed 695 people –
- Flooding worsened when more than 6.27 inches of rain (and 4.05 inches the next day) fell in Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire –
- Over 9 inches of rain caused severe flooding in the Catskill Mountains in New York –
- A haboob rose up to 1,000 feet high and 200 miles wide across western Texas and New Mexico –
- NOAA announced that February 2019 was the world’s 5th warmest February since 1880 –
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