
Pauline Collins
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For

Ernestine & Kit
2016

What We Did on Our Holiday
2006

Sparkling Cyanide
2003

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
2003

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010

Man and Boy
2002

Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
1968

Knockback: 1
1985

Knockback: 2
1985

City of Joy
1992

Shirley Valentine
1989

From Time to Time
2009

Albert Nobbs
2011

Paradise Road
1997

Quartet
2012

Flowers of the Forest
1996

Byrd and the Bees
—

My Mother's Courage
1995

Secrets of a Windmill Girl
1966

Dough
2015

Love Life
1967

The Time of Their Lives
2017

The Last Dragonslayer
2016

Long Distance Information
1979

Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
1967

King's Cross Lunch Hour
1972

Crippled Bloom
1972

B-And-B
1968

Doctor Who
1963

Thomas & Sarah
1979

Tales of the Unexpected
1979

Bleak House
2005

The Saint
1962

The Ambassador
1998

Wodehouse Playhouse
1974

No, Honestly
1974

Wogan
1982

BBC Play of the Month
1965

Wink To Me Only
1969

Forever Green
1989

Doctor Who
2005

Mount Pleasant
2011

The Corridor People
1966

Dickensian
2015

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004

The Wednesday Play
1964

Merlin
2008

Upstairs, Downstairs
1971

Tales of the Unexpected
1979

Screen Two
1985

Little Miss
1983

Pardon the Expression
1965

Armchair Theatre
1956

BBC Play of the Month
1965

The Three Musketeers
1966

Theatre 625
1964

Wodehouse Playhouse
1974

The Wednesday Play
1964

Country Matters
1972

The Black Tower
1985

Armchair Theatre
1956

Tony Awards
1956