Collins, Pauline
Collins, Pauline
OBE 2001
Born Exmouth, Devon 3 Sept. 1940; d of William Henry Collins and Mary Honora Callanan; m John Alderton, qv; two s one d
actress (stage and television)
Education
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Hammersmith, London; Central Sch. of Speech and Drama
Career
Stage: 1st appearance in A Gazelle in Park Lane, Theatre Royal, Windsor, 1962; 1st London appearance in Passion Flower Hotel, Prince of Wales, 1965; The Erpingham Camp, Royal Court, 1967; The Happy Apple, Hampstead, 1967, and Apollo, 1970; Importance of Being Earnest, Haymarket, 1968; The Night I chased the Women with an Eel, 1969; Come As You Are (3 parts), New, 1970; Judies, Comedy, 1974; Engaged, National Theatre, Old Vic, 1975; Confusions, Apollo, 1976; Rattle of a Simple Man, Savoy, 1980; Romantic Comedy, Apollo, 1983; Shirley Valentine, Vaudeville, 1988, NY, 1989 (Tony Award, Best Actress, 1989); Shades, Albery, 1992; television, 1962–: series: Upstairs Downstairs; No Honestly; P. G. Wodehouse; Thomas and Sarah; The Black Tower; Forever Green; The Ambassador; Mount Pleasant; Dickensian; plays: Long Distance Information, 1979; Knockback, 1984; Man and Boy, 2002; Sparkling Cyanide, 2003; Famous Last, 2009; film: What We Did on Our Holiday, 2006; films: Shirley Valentine, 1989 (Evening Standard Film Actress of the Year, 1989; BAFTA Best Actress Award, 1990); City of Joy, 1992; My Mother’s Courage, 1997; Paradise Road, 1997; Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War, 2002; You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, 2011; Albert Nobbs, 2012; Quartet, 2013; The Time of Their Lives, 2017. Dr hc Liverpool Poly., 1991
Publications
Letter to Louise, 1992
Address
c/o Independent Talent Group Ltd, 40 Whitfield Street W1T 2RH
