Birth Name
Margo Stilley

Height
5′ 10″ (1.78 m)

Trivia

She wanted director Winterbottom to refer to her simply by her character’s name Lisa in interviews about the movie ‘Nine Songs’.

Former model.

Her mother is Debbie Collins. She lives in the Bible-belt town of Hubert, North Carolina.

Converted to Judaism in 2006, and wrote an article about it for the Times (UK): “It’s a strange time to become a Jew…”, published August 13th 2006.

Personal Quotes

“Even if I never make another film, I still think it’s great.” [on her sexually explicit movie 'Nine Songs']

“I suppose coming from a background that tells you, “Sex is bad, sex is bad, you’re going to hell, sex is bad,” and then seeing on the news that the president is having an affair, it’s not really put in a good light. So I wanted to be part of a film, a beautiful film, about something that should be viewed in a beautiful light. This is a nice thing, it’s fun, everyone does it, it’s great and when it’s safe – and we’re promoting safe sex – and when it’s someone you’re in love with, it’s great.”

“I’m the worst model in the world. But I enjoyed it, it was great. You travel all over the world and get paid a stupid amount of money for doing absolutely nothing.”

“I wanted to make a film about something I really believe in, which is to show sex in a very positive light, as a very important piece of everyday life and a very important piece of a relationship, whether it’s successful or unsuccessful. What I find in films I see is that sex is always a turning point in action, someone’s cheating on someone, or someone dies. It’s always the kids having sex in horror films that die. And I didn’t like that. And in the sexually explicit films I’ve seen like Ai No Corrida [the Japanese classic in which the heroine cuts off her partner's penis], they’re crazy, people don’t do that, it’s not normal!” [on why she made '9 Songs']