1. Pauline Collins reprised the role in the 1989 film adaptation of the play, winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
20 Facts About Pauline Collins
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Pauline Collins starred in the television dramas Forever Green and The Ambassador.
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Pauline Collins was born on 3 September 1940 in Exmouth, Devon, the daughter of Mary Honora, a schoolteacher, and William Henry Pauline Collins, a school headmaster.
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Pauline Collins is of Irish extraction, and was brought up as a Catholic in Wallasey, Cheshire.
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Pauline Collins was educated at Sacred Heart High School and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
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Pauline Collins made her stage debut at Windsor, Berkshire in A Gazelle in Park Lane in 1962 and her West End debut in Passion Flower Hotel in 1965.
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Pauline Collins played Samantha Briggs in the 1967 Doctor Who serial The Faceless Ones and was offered the chance to continue in the series as a new companion for the Doctor, but declined the role.
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Pauline Collins first became well known for her role as the maid Sarah in the 1970s drama series Upstairs, Downstairs.
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Pauline Collins co-narrated the animated British children's television series Little Miss with Alderton in 1983.
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Pauline Collins was a subject of the television programme This Is Your Life in April 1972, when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.
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In 1988, Pauline Collins starred in the one-woman play Shirley Valentine in London, reprising the role on Broadway in 1989 and in the 1989 film version.
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The film won a number of awards and nominations; Pauline Collins was nominated for the Oscar as Best Actress and won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical.
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In 1999 and 2000, Pauline Collins starred as Harriet Smith in the BBC television drama Ambassador.
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Pauline Collins campaigned to save the Bengal tiger and won the public vote.
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Pauline Collins played the role of Sue, Lisa's mother, in the first two series running into 2012.
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Pauline Collins did not return to the third series in 2013, and her character was killed off in the fourth series in 2014.
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Pauline Collins was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2001 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
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Pauline Collins married actor John Alderton in 1969 and lives in Hampstead, London with her husband and their three children Nicholas, Kate, and Richard.
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Pauline Collins has an older daughter, Louise, with actor Tony Rohr.
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Pauline Collins gave Louise up for adoption in 1964 when she was a penniless single mother.