Pauline Collins

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Pauline Collins (1990)

Pauline Collins (born September 3, 1940 in Exmouth , Devon , England ) is a British theater and film actress.

Life

The Devon- born artist received her artistic training at London's Central School of Speech and Drama in the early 1960s and has appeared in the play A Gazelle in Park Lane since she debuted in Windsor in 1962 . Since 1965 Pauline Collins has also worked in London theaters (debut in Passion Flower Hotel at the Prince of Wales Theater), and celebrated a personal triumph as Sarah in the play Upstairs Downstairs . Pauline Collins could also be seen in the television series of the same name in the early 1970s.

For her work as a housewife Shirley Valentine, frustrated by the dreary everyday life of marriage, who leaves home, hearth and the loveless husband from one day to the next to seek her fortune on a Greek island far from civilization and so too (in the form of a warm-hearted local ), the Briton received a plethora of theater awards (Britain's Olivier Award , New York's Tony Award , Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award) in the emancipation play of the same name (Shirley Valentine ). Pauline Collins was largely inexperienced in film - she made her debut with the female lead in the highly speculative B-movie The Scandal Girl of Soho  - when she was engaged in 1988 to film Shirley Valentine , directed by the Bond film veteran Lewis Gilbert . Her performance there also convinced Hollywood, and she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Female Leading Role.

The artist, unspectacular from her outward appearance and not very glamorous, continued to only make guest appearances in the film, which, however, demonstrated her considerable versatility: Pauline Collins was convincing as the British Margaret Drummond, captured by the Japanese during the Second World War, who starred in the tough women's drama Paradise Road did not survive the camp stresses; as Joan Bethel, committed head doctor of a poor hospital in Calcutta, in the picturesque Indian drama City of Joy and as the eponymous mother George Taboris , the Jewish woman in Michael Verhoeven's drama Mutters Courage of being deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp with backbone, format and a good portion of luck (in the form of a cultivated SS officer) escapes.

Pauline Collins is married to actor John Alderton (* 1940), her partner in three television series, and has three children.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Pauline Collins  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
personal data
SURNAME Collins, Pauline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Exmouth , Devon , England , UK