When Emily in Paris‘ Lily Collins met Charlie McDowell, she felt the amour right away.
“We both are in the industry and we have parents that are in a similar industry as well, but we met randomly, actually,” the actress, who is the daughter of Phil Collins and Jill Tavelman, told Ellen DeGeneres in 2022 about her relationship with the filmmaker, whose parents are Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen. “So we were kind of surprised we hadn’t met yet. We’d been in the same rooms a bunch of times and never met. But it was kind of one of those cheesy-but-true love-at-first-sight things.”
The couple—who worked together in Gilded Rage and Windfall— made their romance Instagram official in 2019. The following year, they got engaged in New Mexico while on a road trip, with Charlie proposing with a rose-cut diamond ring.
The two tied the knot in a private Colorado ceremony in 2021 and have continued to take on the world together.
“We can kind of conquer anything,” Lily told E! the following year. “We’ve been through so many changes globally, personally. And to be able to have a partner next to you that makes you laugh in times when you need it the most and helps you emotionally get through things, like moving to a foreign country for four months, I just feel so grateful that I have someone next to me to be able to accomplish that and your best friend with you all the time.”
