
Pauline Collins
Born September 3, 1940 · Exmouth, Devon, England, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

City of Joy

Albert Nobbs

The Last Dragonslayer

Quartet

From Time to Time

Paradise Road

Shirley Valentine

The Time of Their Lives

Dough

Man and Boy

Sparkling Cyanide

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War

Long Distance Information

Flowers of the Forest

Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

My Mother's Courage

Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It

Unreleased
Byrd and the Bees

Knockback: 1

Knockback: 2

Ernestine & Kit

Secrets of a Windmill Girl
TV Shows

The Saint

Merlin

BBC Play of the Month

Wogan

Tales of the Unexpected

Theatre 625

Screen Two

The Wednesday Play

Upstairs, Downstairs

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Bleak House

Dickensian

Mount Pleasant

Country Matters

The Ambassador

The Black Tower

The Three Musketeers

Wodehouse Playhouse

Forever Green

Thomas & Sarah

The Corridor People

Armchair Theatre





