Who are Lily Allen’s famous parents, Keith Allen and Alison Owen? Her dad acted in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, while her mum produced Shaun of the Dead and the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black

Jan 13 , 2025

Lily Allen with her parents Keith Allen and Alison Owen. Photo: Getty Images

Amid rumours that Lily Allen and David Harbour are splitting up, the singer says she’s ‘spiralling’; in the past she’s attributed her mental health struggles to her parents – so who are they?

Rumour has it that Lily Allen and David Harbour may be splitting up, and now the singer is opening up about the mental health struggles she’s been facing lately.

Lily Allen and her husband David Harbour, who reportedly met on the Raya app. Photo: @popsugar/Instagram

“I’m finding it hard to be interested in anything,” she said in an episode of her Miss Me? podcast with co-host Miquita Oliver on January 9 while they were on the topic of the Golden Globes. “I’m really not in a good place,” she added. “I know I’ve been talking about it for months, but I’ve been spiralling and spiralling and spiralling and it’s got out of control.”

“I just can’t concentrate on anything except the pain that I’m going through,” Allen shared. “It’s really, really hard.”

She explained that she was planning on taking a break, including from hosting the podcast. “What I do want to reassure people because there will be speculation because of the amount of time that I’m going to be taking away that I’m going to drug rehab – I’m not,” she said. “I’ve not relapsed. I know there have been some horrible blind items on the internet about me being found by my husband in a crack den being surrounded by men. I don’t know who’s spreading these vicious rumours but that’s not true.”

Here’s what we know about her parents amid the news.

Who are Lily Allen’s parents?

Lily Allen says she’s been spiralling of late, and needs to take a break from work. Photo: EPA-EFE

Not everyone outside the UK will be aware that Lily Allen hails from a family with roots in the entertainment industry. Her father, Keith Allen, 71, is an actor who has starred in over 140 films and TV shows, including The Others with Nicole Kidman, 24 Hour Party People and Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Meanwhile, Lily’s mother, 63-year-0ld Alison Owen, is the acclaimed film producer behind Shaun of the Dead, The Other Boleyn Girl, Saving Mr Banks, Me Before You and Back to Black. Lily’s parents were married from 1984 to 1989.

How many kids do Lily Allen’s parents have together?

Lily Allen with her parents Keith Allen and Alison Owen, and half-sibling Sarah Owen at the launch of Lily Allen’s fashion concept Lucy in Disguise in 2010. Photo: Getty Images

Keith Allen and Alison Owen share two children together – Lily, who went on to become a chart-topping singer, and Alfie, who pursued acting and has been in everything from Game of Thrones and Jojo Rabbit to John Wick. Keith split up with Owen when the children were small, per The Guardian.