Michelle Danielle Collins was born on 28 May 1962 and is an English actress, best known for her role as Cindy Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders and Stella Price in ITV's Coronation Street.
27 Facts About Michelle Collins
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Michelle Collins played Stella Price in rival ITV soap Coronation Street from 2011 to 2014.
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Michelle Collins was born at Hackney South East Hospital in Hackney, east London, to a Welsh mother, Mary, and a father of English and Flemish heritage.
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When Michelle Collins was 14, her mother went back to university to obtain a law degree.
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Michelle Collins's career changed direction after performing in the 1978 video for the Squeeze song "Cool For Cats".
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Michelle Collins had been in The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson.
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Michelle Collins later appeared in three films: Personal Services, Empire State and Stephen Poliakoff's Hidden City.
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Michelle Collins appeared in an episode of the BBC's Bergerac in 1985.
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On 14 November 2014, Michelle Collins reprised the role of Cindy for a short stint for Children in Need.
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In May 2023, it was announced that Michelle Collins would be returning to the soap after 25 years, alongside Woodyatt, thus resurrecting the character from the dead.
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In 2005, Michelle Collins starred in the ITV drama The Last Detective and in the BBC drama The Family Man, alongside ex-EastEnder Daniela Denby-Ashe, which aired in March 2006.
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Michelle Collins starred in the West End musical Daddy Cool, and while working during the night there shot sequences for a cameo in the short film Broken written and directed by Vicki Psarias, which went on to win the several international awards.
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Michelle Collins featured in the film Don't Stop Dreaming, released in 2007.
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Michelle Collins left Daddy Cool in January 2007 to shoot the Doctor Who episode "42".
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On 2 July 2007, it was announced that Michelle Collins has been cast for the lead role of Karina Faith in new ITV drama series, Rock Rivals, produced by Shed Productions.
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In 2009, Michelle Collins took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about her Welsh family history.
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On 21 May 2009, it was rumoured that Michelle Collins had auditioned to star in US drama Desperate Housewives, but she did join the cast.
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In June 2010, it was announced that Michelle Collins would make a six-episode guest appearance as a patient's mother in Casualty.
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From 7 April-7 May 2011, Michelle Collins starred as Sheila Grundy, Fred Dibnah's third wife, in The Demolition Man at Octagon Theatre, Bolton.
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Three months later it was confirmed Michelle Collins had joined the cast as Stella Price, new landlady of the Rovers Return pub, beating Lisa Maxwell for the role.
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In January 2014, Michelle Collins claimed she was "unhappy" over the lack of screen time for her and her character.
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Michelle Collins filmed her final scenes on 19 February 2014, and made her final appearance as Stella on 2 April 2014.
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Since leaving Coronation Street, Michelle Collins has had various guest roles in television dramas: Casualty as Samantha Kellman, Death in Paradise as Annette Burgess, and Midsomer Murders as Nadine Campbell.
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In 2016, Michelle Collins took part in the ITV reality series Bear Grylls: Mission Survive.
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Michelle Collins took an overdose of sleeping pills but later woke up and asked her costar to take her to the hospital.
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Michelle Collins is an ambassador for Oxfam and has visited Brazil, South Africa and Armenia, promoting the need for the basic right to education.
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Michelle Collins is an ambassador for Ambitious about Autism and a patron for the Alexandra Wylie Tower Foundation.