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Joan Collins
English actress and writer (born 1933)
For other people named Joan Collins, see Joan Collins (disambiguation).
Dame Joan Collins DBE | |
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Collins in 2010 | |
| Born | Joan Henrietta Collins (1933-05-23) 23 May 1933 (age 91) Paddington, London, England |
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| Years active | 1951–present |
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| Children | 3, including Tara and Alexander |
| Relatives | Jackie Collins (sister) |
| Website | www.joancollins.com |
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins (born 23 May 1933) is an English actress, author and columnist. Active in film and television since the 1950s, she portrayed the glamorous schemer Alexis C
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Joan Collins facts: Actress's age, husbands, children, sister, films and more revealed
20 October 2023, 10:30
Joan Collins is a British national institution, famous the world over for her various TV and film roles and glamorous persona.
Known for being an English actress, author, and columnist, during her career Joan Collins has won a Golden Globe Award, a People's Choice Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
In 1983, she was even given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and also works for various charities and causes relating to children.
In 2015, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for her charitable services.
Beginning her acting career in the early 1950s, she became something a cult film star for the next few decades. She was then a true Hollywood star after appearing as Alexis Colby in the American soap Dynasty during the 1980s.
In recent years, she has appeared in various TV shows such as Benidorm, The Royals and American Horror Story, and celebrated her 70th year in showbusiness in 2021.
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Someone (Oscar Levant?) once said: 'I knew Joan Collins when she was older than she is today', highlighting the remarkable way in which she seems to have hurdled the decades, with - still intact - that glamour that British film-makers hardly knew what to do with.
After three small roles, she was thoroughly noticed as sultry sexpots in I Believe in You (d. Basil Dearden/Michael Relph, 1952), Cosh Boy (d. Lewis Gilbert, 1952) and Turn the Key Softly (d. Jack Lee, 1953). There was perhaps never a suitable decade for Collins in British films, but it certainly wasn't the tweedy '50s.
Small wonder she went to Hollywood which made her a star in such films as Land of the Pharaohs (US, d. Howard Hawks, 1955) and The Virgin Queen (US, d. Henry Koster, 1955). A star, but not a superstar: that was finally achieved, in her '50s, by TV's Dynasty (1982-89), as arch-bitch Alexis Carrington, weaving a tangled web of seduction and treachery among Denver's oil-rich.
Her own life had some of the elements of such lush soaps. Born in London on 23 May 1933, the daughter of a theatrica
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