When I heard that pop star Phil Collins had a daughter, I imagined her to be short, bald, and an excellent drummer. Imagine my surprise when I discovered she actually looked human (see above). Well, the surprises keep coming for yours truly.

Turns out Lily Collins is an actress and has just been cast as the lead in director Scott Charles Stewart’s (Legion) adaptation of  author Cassandra Clare’s romantic teen-demon-slayer book series The Mortal Instruments. Collins will play Clary Fray, a 15-year-old girl with undiscovered supernatural powers who falls in love with a bad-boy “Shadowhunter” while attempting to rescue her mother from demons.

If that’s not enough to get tween girls’ hearts aflutter, Clare’s book cover looks like this:

“City of Bones” is the first book in “The Mortal Instruments” series.

Collins will next star in Stewart’s upcoming vampire-apocalypse frightener Priest. Her only other horror cred is last year’s white-woman-helps-black-kid-be-more-white update The Blind Side.

For those of you under the age of 25: Lily’s father, Phil Collins, ruined Genesis for hippies in the ’70s, but was embraced by generations to come with hits such as “In the Air Tonight,” “Sussudio,” and the R&B classic “Easy Lover” with Philip Bailey.