Nov 08, 2025
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The British artist, who suffers from Alzheimer's, is a TV star in series like 'Upstair and Downstaint' and received a leading role in the film.
Actress Pauline Collins, Oscar-nominated for "Shirley Valentine", has died at the age of 85
The British song is, that is the one that is to be a timmer, it's a tv in the 'and the mirror and the mirror and a mirror and a great deal of assistance.
British TV and theater star Pauline Collins died this Thursday in London at the age of 85 in the nursing home where she lived with Alzheimer's disease, surrounded by her family.A tireless worker, Collins embodied Shirley Valentine's monologue at the theater in which she played a woman vacationing in Greece.There she meets a Greek and from this relationship will be born her sense of self-respect, until she changes it and finally makes it visible to her husband.When the work was released in 1989, Collins also starred in it and even received an Oscar nomination, which is an interesting parallel to what was shown on screen.
Her family announced her death in a statement to the BBC."Pauline was many things to many people and played many roles in her life. She was a dazzling, sparkling and witty presence on stage and screen. Her remarkable career saw her play politicians, mothers and queens. She will always be remembered for the iconic, strong and vivacious roles that were familiar to Shirley and wise to Shirley. These parts of her were her magic in each of them."
Collins was born in Exmouth (Devon) and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Before starting her acting career, she was a teacher, like her parents. In 1962, she made her debut in the West End of London Theater Grand District with the play "Passionflower Hotel". She started acting in television at the age of 23 and made her screen debut in 1966 in The Secret of the Windmill Girl. She did not returnon the big screen until her breakthrough in "Shirley Valentine" in 1989.
Collins became known in the UK for her work on the small screen in series such as 'Heritage', 'Doctor Who' and 'The Saint', and from 1971 to 1973 she played the maid Sarah in 'Up and Down'. Sarah had an affair with chauffeur Thomas Watkins, then played by Collins' husband, and was a frequent partner6 with John9. Thanks to the success of their characters, theyIn 1979, he starred in an additional series called Thomas and Sarah.
The first and second of Collins's life were with Shirley Valentine, the story of a middle-aged British housewife and mother who leaves her monotonous existence behind and finds excitement and joy in life, among other things, to the attention of Costas (played by Tom Conti in the film).
Collins first performed Willy Russell's Monologue directed by Simon Callow in 1988 at the Vaudeville Theater in London's West End.She won an Olivier Award for Best Actress, traveled to Broadway with this two-hour work (she won a Tony Award in the US), and starred in a film version directed by Lewis Gilbert (Alfie, Moonraker), for which she won an Oscar.
His Oscar nomination was announced the day after he presented the film in Madrid, where he told El País: "Don't I think it's a miracle that I'm almost 50 to start my film career? Maybe I hope."Laughing, he made sure that during this time, between his routine and his four children, he was not overwhelmed at all.But he explained: "She's a real actress, I know a lot of people like her. If I ever thought Shirley Valentine wasn't a woman in hell, I wouldn't play that character."
He is also Hid himself in his life: he is working in Ireatreland, he had a relationship with Africa Cony rohr, and in 1964 he gave birth to his daughter secretly. The actor gave the child to the two for adoption.Decades later, mother and daughter were reunited, and Collins reflected on their experience in her book The Book of Louise (1992).
His film career expanded, and Collins, who did not abandon television (he worked in almost a hundred series), participated in films such as The City of Joy (1992), where he played an Irish nurse who helped a doctor (Patrick Swayze) run a clinic in India;or was a missionary, who was in a Japanese prison camp during World War II in The Road to Paradise (1997) with Glenn Close and Organized a female vocal group with Frances McDormand.
He was later briefly rehearsed by Rodrigo García in Albert Nobbs (2011);He worked with you on Meet the Man of Your Dreams (2010), pargie smith, Billy Cortney, Billy Collney, Billy Collney, Billy Collney, Billy Collney, Billy Collney 2016.he has been working on his latest film, the trip of their lives, the trip of their lives, alongside Joan Collins.
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