Pauline Collins
Born: 1940-09-03 in Exmouth, Devon, England, UK
Died: 2025-11-05
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2017
- The Time of Their Lives as Priscilla
2016
- The Last Dragonslayer as Lady Mawgon
- Ernestine & Kit as Ernestine
2015
- Dickensian as Mrs Gamp
- Dough as Joanna
2012
- Quartet as Cissy Robson
2011
- Mount Pleasant
- Albert Nobbs as Margaret Baker
2010
- You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger as Cristal
2009
- From Time to Time as Mrs. Tweedle
2008
- Merlin as Alice
2006
- What We Did on Our Holiday as Lil Taylor
2005
- Doctor Who as Queen Victoria
- Bleak House as Miss Flite
2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Thyrza Grey
2003
- Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War as Thelma Caldicot
- Sparkling Cyanide as Dr. Catherine Kendall
2002
- Man and Boy as Betty Silver
1998
1997
- Paradise Road as Daisy 'Margaret' Drummond
1996
- Flowers of the Forest as Aileen Matthews
1995
- My Mother's Courage as Elsa Tabori
1992
- City of Joy as Joan Bethel
1989
- Forever Green
- Shirley Valentine as Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw
1985
- Screen Two as Sylvia Barker
- The Black Tower as Maggie Hewson
- Knockback: 1 as Sylvia
- Knockback: 2 as Sylvia
1983
- Little Miss as Female Voices
1982
- Wogan as Self
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Eve Peregrine
- Thomas & Sarah
- Long Distance Information as Eileen
1972
- Country Matters as Ruby
- Crippled Bloom as Ruby
- King's Cross Lunch Hour as The Girl
1971
- Upstairs, Downstairs as Sarah
1969
1968
- B-And-B
- Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It as Joan Percival
1967
- Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones as Samantha Briggs
- Love Life as Mary Murtagh
1966
- The Three Musketeers as Kitty
- The Corridor People as Syrie's Maid
- Secrets of a Windmill Girl
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Lady Teazle
- Pardon the Expression as Miss Wainwright
1964
- Theatre 625 as Clara
- The Wednesday Play as Joan Percival
1963
- Doctor Who as Samantha Briggs
1962
- The Saint as Marie-Therese
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Winner / Performer
- Armchair Theatre as Betty