
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

Albert Nobbs

From Time to Time

City of Joy

Quartet

Paradise Road

The Last Dragonslayer

Shirley Valentine

The Time of Their Lives

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War

Man and Boy

Sparkling Cyanide

Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

Flowers of the Forest

Dough

Unreleased
Byrd and the Bees

Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It

Secrets of a Windmill Girl

My Mother's Courage

Knockback: 2

Knockback: 1

Long Distance Information

Ernestine & Kit
TV Shows

BBC Play of the Month

Screen Two

Wogan

The Saint

Theatre 625

The Wednesday Play

Agatha Christie's Marple

Merlin

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Upstairs, Downstairs

Bleak House

Dickensian

Mount Pleasant

Country Matters

The Ambassador

The Three Musketeers

Thomas & Sarah

Wodehouse Playhouse

Armchair Theatre

The Corridor People

The Black Tower

Forever Green





