Lynn Collins

Birthday: 16 May 1977, Houston, Texas, USA

Birth Name: Viola Lynn Collins

Height: 173 cm

Viola Lynn Collins was born in Houston, Texas, to Patricia Lynn (Campbell) and Phillip Dean Collins. She attended the Juilliard School for Drama and had a great deal of Shakespearean training before being cast as "Portia" in "The Merchant of Venice". She also played "Ophelia" in a production of "Hamlet" in Ne... Show more »

I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.

I started doing karate at four, my parents were karatekas. I stopped when I was 17 and went to Julli...Show more »

I started doing karate at four, my parents were karatekas. I stopped when I was 17 and went to Julliard and had a lot of stage combat there. Show less «

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

I will say that Lynda Carter is an awesome woman.

They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you...Show more »

I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you get, the more noticed you are. It's kind of like a Catch-22. Show less «

I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.

What I do is very spiritual to me. I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in n...Show more »

What I do is very spiritual to me. I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me. Show less «

From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous a...Show more »

From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling. Show less «

Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.

I went to Julliard where they use a lot of voice and speech exercises.

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

The truth for me is that I've been doing independent film since the get-go, so that's a big passion ...Show more »

The truth for me is that I've been doing independent film since the get-go, so that's a big passion of mine, but the big ones are really fun, too. I like my world to be eclectic. Show less «

I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.

The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear.

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doi...Show more »

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic. Show less «

My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York whe...Show more »

My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realized I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined. Show less «