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Lily Collins was born in fame. Daughter of drummer Genesis Phil Collins and his ex -wife Jill TavelmanLily won her first acting role at the age of two at the BBC Growing pains. Now she is known as the star of the Netflix series Emily in Paris.
Life with a famous father came up with a share of challenges, public and private. Her parents divided when she was five years old, and went to live with her mother full -time. With Phil Global Celebrity often missed during her childhood – but a couple has adjusted any problems between them, Lily told Lily with Watchman In 2012, anything else is just a rumor.
“I know the truth and I know how it was for me, and I know how much I love my family – and that’s all that really matters,” she said.
While Phil’s health forced him to retire from drumming in 2022, he now accepts his life as a grandfather. Lily and her husband, Charlie McDowell, welcomed their first child, daughter ToveDespite a replacement in January 2025 (Phil is also a grandfather to granddaughter, zoe, from a legally adopted daughter Joely Collins and her husband, Stefan Bobellaar.)
Jeff Kravitz/Filmmagic Phil Collins is an eight -time drummer and Grammy singer, known for his solo career and time in the English rock band Genesis, but his whole family found ways to do it. Phil has five children and shares adoptive daughter Joely Collins and son Simon with his first wife Andrea (…)
Continue to move and look back at the relationship between Lily and Phil over the years.
Had a tense relationship while Lily grew up
When Phil and Tavelman divorced, Tavelman took Lily to live in Los Angeles while Phil stayed in London. She opened up that she hadn’t had her father in her memory 2017 in her life, UNFILTERED: No shame, no regret, only me.
“Because my dad was often gone, I never wanted to do anything that would make him stay away even longer,” she wrote. “I became extremely cautious about what I said and, as I said, I was afraid I think I was angry or not loved him.” And the truth is that I was angry. I missed him and wanted him there. ”
Lily fought with Phil’s glory while as a child
Lily’s first brush, with her father’s glory, came on a trip to Disneyland as a child when she noticed a guest on her shirt with Phil’s face.
“Then he saw my father and asked for a photo – and it was a really strange moment,” she remembered Radio times In 2020. “Slowly but surely, I began to understand. ”
Lily Collins is one of the most buzzed stars of the moment-and while her work on the screen is undoubtedly wonderful, as well as her red carpet style. The actress first entered-Er, crawling the SE-Hollywood scene as a two-year-old in a television situation in 1985, growing pain. Until 2009 (…)
She remembered that she eventually got used to it and learned to separate “Phil Collins” from “dad”.
“It’s strange to make your father or your parent on stage with a million people who said their name and you are like,” No, that’s just Dad, “VA said INTERVIEW 2016 with Harry Connick jr. “But I started getting used to it (for that: 🙂 The man was Phil and then when we were at home, it was a dad.”
Lily was determined to do it alone
Lily did not start acting regularly until she was 20 when she appeared in the 2009 movie Blind. When she landed more roles and her glory grew, she He didn’t want her famous father to help her on the way.
“I always wanted to do it myself,” she said in an interview for 2013 with Charm. “I never wanted someone to make phone calls.” The name can open the door, but there is a quote that I like: “Personality can open the door, but only the character can keep them open.”
She added that even though Phil does not pull the strings for her, she remains supported by her career.
“He just let me do his thing as it happens,” she said. “Now it’s such a different game, so he just sees his little girl going out and experiencing it all, and I think it’s the most bizarre but to see the most amazing thing.”
Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell tied a knot after two years of dating – but their relationship was love at first sight. The duo was first linked at the beginning of 2019, with Emily in Paris in August Romance Instagram. Just more than a year later, the son of Mary Steenburgen’s son discovered a question. “It (…)
Since then she has forgiven her father for their once rocky relationship
Lily included a Forgiveness For her father in her 2017 memory after he wrote that “many of my deepest uncertainties stem from these problems with my father.”
“We all make decisions, and although I don’t apologize to some of your, we can’t rewrite the past at the end of the day,” she wrote. “I learn how to accept your actions and rule, how they felt me.” I accept and honor the sadness and anger that I felt about things you did or did not, did not give me it. ”
She added that Phil’s 2008 Phil’s Divorce with the third wife, Ornanne CaveyShe played a role in developing eating disorder.
“Not only did I look physically differently, but I began to limit my happiness by controlling my eating habits,” she explained. “I couldn’t handle the pain and confusion surrounding my father’s divorce, and I was hard to be balancing a teenager to chase two different adult careers.”
Phil and Lily Collins remain close
It seems that Lily and Phil moved around their problems. In 2022, Lily proved to support her father in her Final Concert with Genesiswrote through Instagram that she was “infinitely grateful” for his father and brother, NothingWho performed with the band.
For Father’s Day 2024 she sent her father another sincere message Instagram.
“I’m sending you more hugs than ever and I’m grateful for you today and every day,” she wrote. “My words will not be able to do justice, but … you know.” I love you again to the moon and back. ”
