
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

Paradise Road

The Last Dragonslayer

Quartet

City of Joy

The Time of Their Lives

Dough

Shirley Valentine

From Time to Time

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War

Sparkling Cyanide

Man and Boy

My Mother's Courage

Long Distance Information

Flowers of the Forest

Unreleased
Byrd and the Bees

Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It

Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

Ernestine & Kit

Secrets of a Windmill Girl

Knockback: 2

Knockback: 1
TV Shows

Agatha Christie's Marple

Wogan

Screen Two

Theatre 625

Merlin

The Saint

The Wednesday Play

Tales of the Unexpected

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Upstairs, Downstairs

Bleak House

Mount Pleasant

Dickensian

Country Matters

The Ambassador

Wodehouse Playhouse

Armchair Theatre

The Three Musketeers

No, Honestly

Forever Green

The Black Tower

Thomas & Sarah





