
Pauline Collins
Born September 3, 1940 · Exmouth, Devon, England, UK
Pauline Angela Collins, OBE (3 September 1940 - 5 November 2025) was an English actress of the stage, television, and film. She first came to prominence portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah during the 1970s. She later drew acclaim for playing the title role in the play Shirley Valentine for which she received Laurence Olivier, Tony, and Drama Desk awards. She reprised the role in a 1989 film adaptation, winning a BAFTA and garnering Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pauline Collins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Albert Nobbs

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Quartet

Paradise Road

Shirley Valentine

From Time to Time

City of Joy

The Last Dragonslayer

Dough

Sparkling Cyanide

The Time of Their Lives

Man and Boy

My Mother's Courage

Flowers of the Forest

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War

Unreleased
Byrd and the Bees

Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It

Long Distance Information

Secrets of a Windmill Girl

Knockback: 2

Knockback: 1

Ernestine & Kit
TV Shows

The Wednesday Play

Screen Two

Merlin

The Saint

BBC Play of the Month

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Agatha Christie's Marple

Tales of the Unexpected

Theatre 625

Upstairs, Downstairs

Mount Pleasant

Bleak House

Dickensian

Wodehouse Playhouse

The Three Musketeers

Country Matters

Armchair Theatre

The Ambassador

No, Honestly

The Black Tower

Forever Green

Thomas & Sarah





