Watch This Space! Rising Hollywood Stars

Lily Collins, the daughter of rock legend Phil Collins, is beginning to create a name in her own right.  She has previously had small roles in the hit US drama ‘90210’, and more recently has starred in the Oscar nominated film, ‘The Blind Side’ alongside Sandra Bullock. More recently, she has starred in ‘Priest’ and ‘Abduction’ alongside Taylor Lautner, a thriller about a teenager who finds out his parents are not really his parents after he sees himself as a baby on a missing persons website. Alongside her growing film career, Lily is also a keen follower of fashion. She was chosen in 2007 by Chanel to wear one of their gowns at the Bal des Débutantes (a charity ball), which was featured on ‘The Hills’ and was also chosen by Spain’s Glamour magazine in 2008 as their ‘International Model of the Year’.

Elle Fanning is following in the footsteps of her well established older sister, Dakota (of ‘Twilight’ fame). Elle started acting at the tender age of eighteen  months where she starred alongside Sean Penn in ‘I Am Sam’. More recently she has taken the lead in ‘Phoebe in Wonderland’, ‘Somewhere’ and ‘Super 8’. For her role in ‘Somewhere’, Elle won Film Actress of the Year in the Young Hollywood Award’s. Later this year, Elle will be starring in ‘We Bought A Zoo’ where she plays Scarlett Johansson’s thirteen year old daughter who is working illegally at a zoo. In July 2011, Elle controversially became the new face of Marc Jacobs’ Fall 2011 ad campaign.



Hailee Steinfeld began her acting career at the tender age of eight, initially starring in short films to gain experience. She played the lead role of Talia Alden in the semi-autobiographical short film ‘She’s A Fox’ which went on to win awards at several film festivals from 2009-2011. With this, and appearances in commercials and on television, Steinfeld was chosen out of 15,000 girls for the coveted role of Mattie Ross in the Oscar-nominated ‘True Grit’. For her role, she was announced as a nominee in the Best Supporting Actress category at the 83rd Academy Awards on January 25th 2011. Unfortunately, Steinfeld lost out to ‘The Fighter’ actress Melissa Leo, however, she went on to win the Breakthrough of the Year Award at the 2011 Young Hollywood Awards. Hailee has recently been cast as Juliet Capulet in an upcoming adaption of Shakespeare’s classic love story ‘Romeo & Juliet’, which is to be directed by Carlo Carlei. In May 2011, fashion label Miu Miu announced that it had chosen Steinfeld to be its new face. All of this, and she’s only fourteen years old.

Elizabeth Olsen is most recognisable as the younger sister of Mary Kate and Ashley, but is now beginning an acting career of her own. Elizabeth first appeared in the spotlight aged four, when she acted in her sisters’ first movie, ‘Our First Video’, and then later in ‘The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley’. Elizabeth then stepped out of acting to concentrate on her education, which resulted in her graduating from the Tisch School of Arts and Atlantic Theatre Company. 2011 has been an important year for Elizabeth as she has fulfilled key roles in three movies; ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’, ‘Silent House’ and most recently ‘Peace, Love & Misunderstanding’ (co-starring Chace Crawford and Jane Fonda).Following the positive reviews she gained from ‘Silent House’, Elizabeth landed a role alongside Hollywood legend Robert De Niro in the upcoming thriller movie ‘Red Lights’, and has several more roles lined up for her over the next year.

by Will Jennings and Elena Thompson