The Emily in Paris star has long lived on the West Coast, but she and her husband also own property in idyllic Denmark

Lily Collins’s home on television may be in the City of Light, but the star of Netflix’s romantic comedy series Emily in Paris prefers Denmark, if she’s crossing the pond in real life. The actress was six years old when she moved from her hometown in Surrey, England, to the United States. There, she lived in Los Angeles with her mother, Jill Tavelman, after the American businesswoman divorced Collins’s father, English musician Phil Collins. Though the Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me author previously admitted that it was a tough transition for her at such a young age, she’s created a happy home as an adult alongside husband Charlie McDowell, just 10 miles northeast of downtown LA. “Right after our wedding, we came back to this house and we got to come back to a place that felt like us as a couple already,” she told Vogue in August. “It was really, really special.”

When she’s looking to escape the hustle and bustle of Hollywood, Collins can unwind in Copenhagen—and it appears she fits in seamlessly. “Everyone here is so cool; everyone’s fashion is so chic,” she said during an appearance at this year’s Copenhagen Fashion Week. Here is a look at Collins’s current and former properties in California as well as her Denmark digs.

West Hollywood condo

Collins’s West Hollywood condo had been in her family since the early 1990s before the actor said goodbye to the one-bedroom, two-bathroom unit when she found a buyer in December 2018. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Les Misérables star personally owned the 1,672-square-foot condo for about a decade before she started renting out the space for around $13,000 a month.

She first listed the unit, located in the celebrity-filledSierra Towers complex, in October 2018 for $3.195 million before dropping the price to $2.995 million. Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles real estate agent Josh Flagg held the listing for the unit, which featured an open-plan living space complete with charcoal slate-tile floors. Its floor-to-ceiling windows not only provided plenty of natural light, but a picturesque view of Sunset Boulevard could be seen from the 10th floor of the 31-story high-rise building. An entire wall of floor-to-ceiling sliders in the unit’s single bedroom opened up to a private balcony, which also offered a stunning look over the city. The galley-style kitchen, which had speckled granite countertops and dark wood cabinets, was separated from the rest of the home by a partial wall, and the bathroom came with both a deep soaking tub and glass-lined shower.

Hollywood Regency Beverly Hills mansion

Shortly after Collins announced her engagement to film director and screenwriter Charlie McDowell in September 2020, the Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile star sold her home in Beverly Hills in February 2021 for $13.5 million. She had purchased it for $12.5 million in 2016.

Located north of Sunset Boulevard, the Hollywood Regency mansion featured four bedrooms and five bathrooms across the 5,066-square-foot property. The 0.7-acre estate, guarded by a privacy wall and iron gates, also included an expansive brick driveway with a patio deck and a pool out back as well as a hot tub, a cabana, and a sunken tennis court with seating for six. Built in 1954 by architect John Elgin Woolf, the single-level home featured high ceilings, tall windows, and skylights, with amenities including a library, a bar, a formal dining room, a breakfast room, and fireplaces in the living room and primary bedroom. Collins lived in the home during quarantine with McDowell before purchasing their dream home in Pasadena, California.

Pasadena Case Study house purchased from Kristen Wiig

The Emmy Award nominee made one of her most notable purchases when she obtained a historic home in Pasadena in 2021 for $3.9 million from Kristen Wiig. The Saturday Night Live alum paid $2.96 million in 2017 for the estate, which was part of the Case Study House program, launched in 1945 by Arts + Architecture magazine, that commissioned top architects of the time to design and construct inexpensive model homes for the housing boom at the end of World War II.

The midcentury house, surrounded by sycamore trees, was built in 1947 by father-son architecture team Kemper Nomland and Kemper Nomland Jr. and includes four bedrooms and four bathrooms. When Collins and McDowell first scoped out the property, “We looked at each other, and it was just this overwhelming emotional experience where we didn’t need to say more,” the actress told Vogue.

With the help of interior designer Emily Farnham, the couple renovated the 3,425-square-foot home to incorporate a style Collins described as “midcentury California meets Scandinavian,” a nod to the couple’s penchant for Nordic life. “We designed this house before we really started putting roots down in Scandinavia,” said Collins, who, along with McDowell, purchased two homes in Copenhagen in 2023. “It was almost ahead of our time because we didn’t realize we’d actually be immersed in it years later.”

The single-floor home, which sits on a 15,989-square-foot lot, has floor-to-ceiling windows and concrete flooring, and warm earth tones throughout the space give it a modern feel. A pool and spa were reportedly added in 2014, and a guesthouse accounts for a bed and a bathroom.

Two years after Collins and McDowell married in 2021 and honeymooned in Scandinavia, The Copenhagen Post reported in March 2023 that the pair purchased a five-room English-style terrace house in Østerbro, a family-friendly neighborhood in the country’s capital, Copenhagen. The 1,453-square-foot home—previously owned by Danish film director Pernille Fischer Christensen and her husband, writer Kim Fupz Aakeson—is believed to have cost Collins and her husband 15.5 million kroner (approximately $1.4 million).

According to multiple Danish outlets, the two purchased the home next door a few months later for a reported sum of 14 million kroner (about $1.3 million). Though there are certain restrictions for American citizens buying property in Denmark—including having a residence permit and living there for at least five years—they were able to make the purchases through their company, Case Study Copenhagen, and technically rent the homes through the private entity.

When asked by Elle Danmark what’s the best part about life in Copenhagen, Collins simply said, “Everything,” adding: “Life here is just so wonderful and so calm and bright. What I love so much is that there’s so much color and, yet, it’s so calm. I love being able to bike everywhere. It feels like a big city but also very intimate, and everyone is so nice.”