- Born
- Birth nameViola Lynn Collins
- Height1.73 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 Le marchand de Venise (2004): director Michael Radford instead cast Collins as the female lead Portia after the originally cast Cate Blanchett dropped out (due to pregnancy).
- Graduated from Klein High School outside of Houston, TX. Other KHS alumni include singer Lyle Lovett, actress Sherry Stringfield, actors Lee Pace and Matt Bomer, writer Tom Vaughan, and Olympic Gold Medalist Laura Wilkinson.
- Started dating her second husband, Matthew Boyle, in 2014 and they were married soon afterwards.
- 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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