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| Birth Name(s) : Joan Henrietta Collins |
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Full Joan Collins Biography
Joan Henrietta Collins OBE (born 23 May 1933) is a Golden Globe Award winning English actress and bestselling author.
At the age of 17 Collins was signed to the J. Arthur Rank Film Company, a highly profitable British studio and charm school.
After losing such high-profile roles as Cleopatra (Collins was cast when Elizabeth Taylor fell ill, then let go upon Taylor's recovery), Collins continued to work in films and occasionally in television.
The role of Alexis successfully relaunched Collins as a powerful sex symbol and icon of independence in her late 40s. Her performance helped the struggling show and it ultimately became a ratings hit, rivaling Dallas. In 1985, Dynasty was the #1 show in the US, and Collins went on to become the highest-paid actress on television at the time. Dynasty was shown in more than 80 countries and is still internationally syndicated.
She also appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine at the age of 50 to further establish herself as a sex symbol.
In 1992 she made her successful Broadway debut in an adaptation of Noel Coward's Private Lives. She also guest starred in six episodes of Aaron Spelling's prime time soap opera Pacific Palisades in 1997.
In 2004 she toured the United Kingdom with a revival of the play Full Circle to great success and much critical praise. In 2005 she proved to be a formidable guest host of the popular British quiz show Have I Got News For You, often making quick jokes with the audience.
In early 2006, Collins toured the United Kingdom in A Night With Joan Collins, a one-woman show in which she detailed the highs and lows of her roller coaster career and life, directed by her husband Percy Gibson.
Collins joined the cast of the hit British television series Footballer's Wives for a limited run as a glamorous magazine mogul, aptly named Eva de Wolffe. She also guest starred in the BBC series Hotel Babylon in 2006 as a lonely aristocrat desperate for romance.
In an interview with The Daily Mail on Monday August 20th, Collins was quoted as saying that in her time in Hollywood she went out with 'zillions and zillions' of men. Her sister Jackie was quoted as saying 'I think she did her own thing sexually.' Collins herself admits she was unfaithful 'but only only on location. It doesn't count on location. Everybody was having a little fling, I don't suffer very much from guilt.'
In 1972 Collins married her third husband, Ron Kass, who had been the president of Apple Records during the reign of The Beatles. During their marriage Collins had her third and final child, a daughter, Katyana (a photographer). In 1980 Katy was struck by a speeding car and went into a coma. Collins and her husband bought a trailer and parked it in the hospital parking lot in order to be as close to their daughter as possible. Katyana emerged from her coma a few months later, although it would take years for her to fully recover.
Collins' third marriage ended in divorce in 1983, although she and Kass remained very close until his death from cancer in 1986.
In 1985, Collins married Swedish singer Peter Holm in a quickie ceremony in Las Vegas. The marriage lasted a year and the divorce proceedings lasted just as long with a media circus ensuing. Collins left Los Angeles and returned to London where she lived with much younger art dealer Robin Hurlstone for over a decade.
After decades of flirting with British politics on May 24, 2004, Collins joined the United Kingdom Independence Party. In October 2004, Collins stated she was not a supporter, but rather a patron of the party.
She has commented that she was a huge supporter of former prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. Collins is also a devout monarchist, remaining loyal to the British Royal Family.
The Guinness Book of World Records cites Collins as holding the record for retaining the world's largest unreturned payment for an unpublished manuscript.
In February 2007 Collins was announced to be the public face of skincare company Cellex-C. Collins' campaign, launched in May of 2007 is based around the company's high end Age-Less 15 anti-aging serum.
In 1959 she sang It's Great Not To Be Nominated at the Academy Awards with fellow British actress Angela Lansbury and Dana Wynter.
In 1963 she teamed up with husband, Anthony Newley and Peter Sellers to record the album Fool Britannia which made the UK Top 10.
In 2001 she was featured in the music video for Badly Drawn Boy's Pissing in the Wind which made the Top 30 in the UK Singles chart.
In 1997, Collins was granted the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. |
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