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Dame Joan Henrietta Collins is an English actress, author and columnist. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a People's Choice Award, two Soap Opera Digest Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. In 1983, Collins was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has been recognised for her philanthropy, particularly her advocacy towards causes relat…
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Born 23 May 1933 · Q152843
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It’s now very technically modernised and quite brilliant: they can supply anything from a pin to an elephant. Not that there’s much demand for elephants these days.
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“But we think there is a market out there for a fairytales app that is really well-executed and well-read. I’m very confident that people will be willing to pay if the quality is high enough.”
“It’s now very technically modernised and quite brilliant: they can supply anything from a pin to an elephant. Not that there’s much demand for elephants these days.”
“He was a wonderful storyteller, particularly the fairy tales. Every story has a moral: compassion, selflessness, generosity. There’s a lot to be learned from it. A lot, without it being thrust down their throats.”
HELLO!: Joan Collins, 93, is ageless in glamorous off-the-shoulder dress amid St Tropez getaway
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Collins appeared in a short comedy spoof for Comic Relief entitled 2020: The Movie, in which she played Maggie Keenan, the first person to receive a COVID-19 vaccination
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Sold her condo in New York City for $2 million
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Collins and Gibson escaped a "terrifying" fire at her London flat in Eaton Place
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Guest-starred in an episode of the new Hawaii Five-O TV-series
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Collins joined the cast of Ryan Murphy's series American Horror Story for its eighth season American Horror Story: Apocalypse
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Appeared in a critically acclaimed short film, Gerry, for which she won the Best Actress award at the LA Shorts International Film Festival
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Collins made a cameo appearance as herself in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
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Collins backed the children's fairytales app GivingTales in aid of UNICEF, together with others such as Roger Moore, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley, and Michael Caine
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Was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for her charitable services, presented to her by then Prince of Wales, Charles III
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Awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2014).
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Supported British withdrawal from the European Union
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Starred in a Europe-wide commercial for Snickers chocolate bars, alongside Stephanie Beacham
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Joined the cast of the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love) for a short run, playing an aristocratic British woman, Lady Joan, who takes a young German prince in tow
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Collins presented her own reality television series entitled Joan Collins Does Glamour
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As Ruth Van Rydock, a friend of detective Miss Jane Marple
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Had a weekly opinions column in The Sunday Telegraph
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Collins toured the United Kingdom in An Evening with Joan Collins (US title One Night With Joan), a one-woman show in which she related the highs and lows of her career and life
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Actress Alice Krige impersonated Collins in Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, a fictionalised television film based on the creation and behind-the-scenes production of Dynasty
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Released album “Fool Britannia”.
It was announced she had become a Patron of the UK Independence Party, though she later said this did not necessarily mean she would vote for the party
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Became a patron of the Shooting Star Chase Children's Hospice in Great Britain, while continuing to support several foster children in India, something she has done for the past 35 years
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Collins returned to soap operas in a limited guest run on the American daytime soap Guiding Light
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Collins replaced Elizabeth Taylor as Pearl Slaghoople, Wilma Flintstone's mother, in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, a prequel to the Universal Studios live-action film The Flintstones (1994, Taylor had originated th
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When Collins and her ex-boyfriend George Hamilton performed the play Love Letters at the Marines' Memorial Theatre in San Francisco and Gibson was the producer
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Collins was cast in the film version of the musical theatre show Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, with Donny Osmond
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Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1996).
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Collins was awarded the lifetime achievement award from the Association of Breast Cancer Studies in Great Britain for her contribution to breast cancer awareness in the UK
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And a second novel, Hell Hath No Fury, in 1992, as her contract stipulated, she felt Random House owed her the rest of the $4 million
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Also starred for BBC Television in a series of eight individual Noël Coward plays under the title Tonight at 8
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Collins rejoined her co-stars for Dynasty: The Reunion, a miniseries that concluded the cliffhanger ending left after the show's abrupt 1989 cancellation
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Was made an honorary founding member of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
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Collins began rehearsals for her Broadway stage debut, as Amanda in a successful revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives (1990)
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Additionally, 1988 also saw the opening of the Joan Collins Wing of the Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit.
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Won Golden Globe Awards (1983).
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Collins was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The same year she was nominated for an Emmy as Best Actress in a Drama Series
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Collins was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for career achievement
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Was named a patron of the International Foundation for Children with Learning Disabilities, earning the foundation's highest honour in 1988 for her continuing support
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And earning her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1984
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Collins spoke before the U
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Collins was catapulted back to major stardom in the UK when she starred in the film version of her sister Jackie Collins's racy novel The Stud
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Collins returned to Britain and starred in several films, mostly thrillers and horror films: Revenge (1971), as the vengeance-seeking mother of a murdered child; Quest for Love (1971), a romantic science-fiction piece; T
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“The City on the Edge of Forever”
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Returned to London to star opposite Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the last of that film duo's "road" pictures, The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
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Began dating singer-songwriter Anthony Newley; they married in Norwalk, Connecticut on 27 May 1963 when Collins was five months pregnant
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Became engaged, and Collins had an abortion; his infidelity led to their split in 1961
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Collins became increasingly disillusioned with 20th Century Fox when, having been the original choice to play the title role in Cleopatra, the part went instead to Elizabeth Taylor
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Was top-billed over Jayne Mansfield in the film version of John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus, which despite disappointing reviews was nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear Award at the 7th Berlin International Film Fes
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And in that same year she starred as Evelyn Nesbit in The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, Elizabeth Raleigh in The Virgin Queen and Princess Nellifer in Land of the Pharaohs, the latter garnering a cult following
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Collins was chosen by American director Howard Hawks to star as the scheming Princess Nellifer in her first international production, Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
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Studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1951).
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Born 1933-05-23.
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