Pauline Collins
- Acting
- September 3, 1940 · Exmouth, Devon, England, UK
- November 5, 2025
Biography
Pauline Angela Collins, OBE (3 September 1940 - 5 November 2025) was an English actress of the stage, television, and film. She first came to prominence portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah during the 1970s. She later drew acclaim for playing the title role in the play Shirley Valentine for which she received Laurence Olivier, Tony, and Drama Desk awards. She reprised the role in a 1989 film adaptation, winning a BAFTA and garnering Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pauline Collins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- The Time of Their Lives · Priscilla
- The Last Dragonslayer · Lady Mawgon
- Ernestine & Kit · Ernestine
- Dickensian · Mrs Gamp
- Dough · Joanna
- Quartet · Cissy Robson
- Albert Nobbs · Margaret Baker
- Mount Pleasant
- You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger · Cristal
- From Time to Time · Mrs. Tweedle
- Merlin · Alice
- What We Did on Our Holiday · Lil Taylor
- Bleak House · Miss Flite
- Doctor Who · Queen Victoria
- Agatha Christie's Marple · Thyrza Grey
- Sparkling Cyanide · Dr. Catherine Kendall
- Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War · Thelma Caldicot
- Man and Boy · Betty Silver
- Little Grey Rabbit
- The Ambassador
- Paradise Road · Daisy 'Margaret' Drummond
- Flowers of the Forest · Aileen Matthews
- My Mother's Courage · Elsa Tabori
- City of Joy · Joan Bethel
- Shirley Valentine · Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw
- Forever Green
- The Black Tower · Maggie Hewson
- Knockback: 2 · Sylvia
- Knockback: 1 · Sylvia
- Screen Two · Sylvia Barker, Aileen Matthews
- Little Miss · Female Voices
- Wogan · Self
- Long Distance Information · Eileen
- Tales of the Unexpected · Eve Peregrine, Pat Lewis
- Thomas & Sarah · Sarah Moffat
- No, Honestly · Clara Danby (née Burrell)
- Wodehouse Playhouse · Susan Blake
- Armchair 30 · Carol
- Crippled Bloom · Ruby
- Country Matters · Ruby
- King's Cross Lunch Hour · The Girl
- Upstairs, Downstairs · Sarah
- Wink To Me Only
- Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It · Joan Percival
- B-And-B
- Love Life · Mary Murtagh
- Trapped · Jacky
- Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones · Samantha Briggs
- The Three Musketeers · Kitty
- The Corridor People · Syrie's Maid
- Secrets of a Windmill Girl
- BBC Play of the Month · Lady Teazle, Dawn
- Thirty-Minute Theatre · The Girl
- Blackmail · Frieda Straker
- Pardon the Expression · Miss Wainwright
- The Wednesday Play · Joan Percival, Angelina
- Theatre 625 · Clara
- Doctor Who · Samantha Briggs
- The Saint · Marie-Therese
- Armchair Theatre · Betty, Mary Murtagh
- Tony Awards · Self
- Byrd and the Bees · Beatrice