- Born
- Birth nameViola Lynn Collins
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- 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 New York, and was "Juliet" in Peter Hall's "Romeo and Juliet" at the Ahmanson theatre in Los Angeles.- IMDb Mini Biography By: jellicle2
- SpousesMatthew Boyle(2014 - present) (1 child)Steven Strait(December 23, 2007 - 2013) (divorced)
- ChildrenAsher Hendrix Boyle
- ParentsPatricia Lynn CampbellPhillip Dean Collins
- When she was four years old her family moved to Singapore and lived there for six years before moving back to Houston.
- She has English, Scottish, Irish and Cherokee ancestry.
- She submitted an audition tape in hopes of playing Jessica in The Merchant of Venice (2004): director Michael Radford instead cast Collins as the female lead Portia after the originally cast Cate Blanchett dropped out (due to pregnancy).
- Started dating her second husband, Matthew Boyle, in 2014 and they were married soon afterwards.
- Lynn and her second husband, Matthew Boyle, welcomed their son, Asher Hendrix Boyle, in January 2015.
- 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.
- I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.
- I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
- I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.
- I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.
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