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Artistic Name	Lily Allen
Birth Name	Lily Rose Beatrice Allen
Date of Birth	May 2, 1985
Place of birth	Hammersmith, London - England
Height	5 ft 2 in
Hair color	Dark Brown
Eye color	Brown
Occupation	Singer / Songwriter
Quotes	"I knew from an early age that I could never do a job where I'd have to sit in an office all day long" "I became obsessed by quite arcane subjects" "I started to feel like I could have a voice. But I wanted to write about my own world in an entertaining way. So I did."

Lily Allen Biography

Lily Rose Beatrice Allen was born in Hammersmith, west London, daughter of Welsh-born comedian/actor Keith Allen and English, Portsmouth-born, film producer Alison Owen.[8] She and her family eventually settled in the North London borough of Islington. She has an older sister, Sarah; a younger brother, Alfie Owen-Allen (who was the subject of her song Alfie); and a younger sister Rebecca. She also has a number of half-siblings. Lily Allen lived for a while with comedian Harry Enfield while her mother dated him. She is the god-daughter of Wild Colonials vocalist Angela McCluskey. The late Clash guitarist Joe Strummer is also referred to as a godparent. While not literally true, Strummer was close to and mentored Allen.

In 1988, at the age of 3, Allen appeared on The Comic Strip Presents... episode The Yob, which her father had co-written. When Allen was four years old, her father left the family. Allen claims to have grown up with her mother in a working class environment, living in a council house environment for most of her childhood. This seems at odds with the fact that she attended some of the UK's costliest public schools; Allen attended 13 schools in all, including Prince Charles's junior alma mater, Hill House School, Millfield and Bedales School, and was expelled from several of them for drinking, and smoking.

Allen told Loveline that, when she was 11, she was singing an Oasis tune in the school playground when a teacher overheard her and told her she had talent and suggested she do something with it. She took singing lessons with the teacher. She sang at a school play and claimed that the audience was brought to tears at the sight of a troubled young girl doing something good. At that point Allen said she knew that music was something she needed to do either as a lifelong vocation or to get it out of her system. Allen played piano to grade 5 standard and achieved grade 8 in singing. She also played violin, guitar and trumpet as well as being a member of a chamber choir. Her first solo was In the Bleak Midwinter. According to The Sunday Times the only school that seemed to have a positive impact on her was Cavendish an all-girl Catholic school located in Camden Town. At Cavendish, Allen played a boy in a production of The Railway Children and sang Baby Mine in Dumbo.

Allen made an appearance as a lady-in-waiting in the 1998 film Elizabeth, co-produced by her mother. She dropped out of school at age fifteen, not wanting to "spend a third of her life preparing to work for the next third of her life, to set herself up with a pension for the next third of her life."After her family went to Ibiza on holiday, Allen told her mother that she was staying with friends but remained in Sant Antoni de Portmany instead. She earned money by working at a Plastic Fantastic record store and dealing in ecstasy.

At the age of 17, Allen became a member of the Groucho Club and in her free time she listened to artists such as The Specials, T.Rex and Happy Mondays.

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