Viola Lynn Collins is an American actress. She made television appearances in True Blood and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and is recognized for her roles in films such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine and John Carter.
March 13, 2005, Pasadena, California, United States
Place Of Birth
Houston, Texas, United States
Height
5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Profession
Film actress
Education
Klein High School, Juilliard School
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Steven Strait (m. 2007)
Children
Asher Hendrix Boyle
Parents
Phillip Dean Collins, Patricia Lynn Campbell
Nicknames
Viola Lynn Collins
Music Groups
The J.B.'s
Nominations
Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Breakout Star - Female
Movies
John Carter, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Merchant of Venice, Angels Crest, Unconditional, The Number 23, The Dog Problem, The Lake House, 13 Going on 30, 50 First Dates, Lost in the Sun, Return to Rajapur, Life in Flight, Bug, The Hollow Point, Towelhead, Down with Love, Uncertainty, City Island, ...
TV Shows
True Blood, Haunted
Star Sign
Taurus
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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.
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They're really competitive at drama in Texas.
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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.
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The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear.
I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.
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In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.
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I went to Julliard where they use a lot of voice and speech exercises.
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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.
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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.
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Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.
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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.
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I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.
14
I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.
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I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
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I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.
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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.
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Fact
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Welcomed her son by her second husband, Asher Hendrix Boyle, in January 2015.
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Separated in 2013 and divorced soon afterwards.
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Started dating her second husband in 2014 and married soon afterwards.
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She has English, Scottish, Irish and Cherokee ancestry.
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When she was four years old her family moved to Singapore and lived there for six years before moving back to Houston.
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