I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did.

com named her one of the "Breakout Stars to Watch for in 2011". She graduated from Harvard-Westlake School and attended the University of Southern California majoring in broadcast journalism. Collins is set to star in the first film adaptation of the New York Times bestselling "The Mortal Instruments" novels by Cassandra Clare playing Clary Fray.