Joan Collins

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Joan Collins at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival (2012)

Dame Joan Henrietta Collins , DBE (born May 23, 1933 in London ) is a British actress , model and author who became internationally known from the 1950s, initially through film roles. She received the Golden Globe Award in 1983 for her best-known role as Alexis Colby in the television series The Denver Clan .

life and career

Joan Collins is one of three children of the South African talent scout Joseph William Collins ("Will") and his English wife Elsa Bressant Collins. She has two siblings, writer and actress Jacqueline Jill Collins ("Jackie") and Joseph William Collins, Jr. ("Bill"). She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art .

Collins has appeared in numerous film and television productions since the early 1950s. She has appeared in films such as Land of the Pharaohs (1955), Bravados (1958) or Seven Thieves (1960) and played alongside renowned colleagues such as Jack Hawkins , Gregory Peck and Rod Steiger , but never managed to become a leading cinema star push through. In the 1960s and 1970s she appeared in well-known TV series such as Cobra, Take Over , Die 2 , Mondbase Alpha 1 or Starsky & Hutch . In 1967 Collins had a small role in one of the most popular episodes of the television series Starship Enterprise , titled Reaching into History . In the late 1970s she also played non-textile roles in artistically insignificant erotic films such as The Pimp or The Mare (both 1978).

In 1981 Joan Collins played the central role of the vengeful intriguer Alexis Colby in the hit TV series The Denver Clan and became one of the most famous television stars of the 1980s. The role was created as a female counterpart to the character of JR Ewing in the successful competition series Dallas . After the Denver clan fell in 1989, she made her living primarily from her novels, biographies, and beauty guides. She continued to appear as an actress, but the audience almost exclusively identified her with the role of the glamorous Alexis.

In 1995, Joan Collins starred in one of the last three specials for Hart's television series : Max's Legacy at the side of Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers . She also had a number of guest appearances, including in Roseanne , The Nanny and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas .

In April and May 2006, Joan Collins toured sold-out houses in the UK with her show An Evening with Joan Collins .

Joan Collins (left) with Sophia Loren on June 13, 2009

On September 12, 2006, she and her Denver clan colleague Linda Evans premiered in Toronto with the play Legends . The piece then went on tour in the USA until spring 2007. In 2006 Joan Collins had a guest role on the English series Footballers' Wives . In 2010, 76-year-old Joan Collins took a guest role in the German daily soap Verbotene Liebe and played the eccentric Lady Joan for three episodes. At the age of 85, Collins took on a role in the ensemble of the award-winning anthology series American Horror Story in 2018 .

In 1997 she was accepted as an officer in the Order of the British Empire and in 2015 ennobled as Dame Commander of the same order. Since then she has had the addition of “ lady ” to her name .

Private life

Collins was with the Northern Irish actor Maxwell Reed (1919–1974) from 1952 to 1956 , from 1963 to 1970 with the British actor, singer, director and composer Anthony Newley (1931–1999), from 1972 to 1983 with the film producer Ronald S. Kass (1935–1986) and from 1985 to 1987 married the Swedish singer Peter Holm (* 1947). In February 2002, she married for the fifth time. Her husband is Percy Gibson (* 1965), 32 years her junior. She has three children; two from the second and one from the third marriage.

Joan Collins (2011)

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Emmy Award

- nomination

Golden Globe Award

- award

- nominations

  • 1982: Best Actress in a Series - Drama (The Denver Clan)
  • 1984: Best Actress in a Series - Drama (The Denver Clan)
  • 1985: Best Actress in a Series - Drama (The Denver Clan)
  • 1986: Best Actress in a Series - Drama (The Denver Clan)
  • 1987: Best Actress in a Series - Drama (The Denver Clan)

Soap Opera Digest Award

- Awards

  • 1984: Outstanding villain in prime-time soap opera (The Denver Clan)
  • 1985: Outstanding villain in a prime-time series (The Denver Clan)

- nominations

  • 1986: Outstanding Leading Actress in a prime-time series (The Denver Clan)
  • 1986: Outstanding villain in a prime-time series (The Denver Clan)
  • 1988: Outstanding Villain - Prime Time (The Denver Clan)

Further awards

Autobiography

  • Joan Collins: Intimate Memoirs . Confessions of a star about her eventful life. Heyne, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-453-01934-2 .

Web links

Commons : Joan Collins  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Gazette : No. 54625, p. 25 , December 30, 1996.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette : No. 61092 (Supplement), p. 26 , December 31, 2014.
  3. ↑ stern.de: Actress Joan Collins: The Beast Becomes a Lady Article from March 26, 2015
  4. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
personal data
SURNAME Collins, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collins, Joan Henrietta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress, model and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK