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Joan Collins
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English actress, author and columnist
Joan Collins is an English actress, author, and columnist who became famous for her work in entertainment and media. She is notable for her long career spanning multiple decades across film, television, and publishing.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 23 May 1933
- Works
- 40
Top works
- Second act
- Snow Queen
- Infamous
- Love and Desire and Hate
- Ahavah, teshuḳah ṿe-śinʾah
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Film & TV
Acting · Paddington, London, England, UK
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins (born 23 May 1933) 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…
Known for
- A Murder Between Friends — Francesca Carlyle2026
- VE Day 80 — Self (archive footage)2025
- From Roger Moore with Love — Self2024
- Mitt liv som Roger Moore — Self2024
- Drama Queens — Self2024
- The Coronation Concert — Self2023
- The Reluctant Traveller with Eugene Levy — Self2023
- This Is Joan Collins — Self2022
- Joe Lycett's Big Pride Party — Self2022
- Tomorrow Morning — Anna2022
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1933
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 127
- Total plays
- 530
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Joan Henrietta Collins OBE (born May 23, 1933) is a Golden Globe Award winning English actress and bestselling author. She is most widely known for her role as Alexis Colby in the 1980s primetime soap opera Dynasty. She was born in London, England. Collins met her current beau, Percy Gibson, in 2001. After divorcing his long-estranged first wife, Cynthia, he became the fifth husband of Joan Collins on 17 February 2002; she is 32 years his senior. When asked about the age difference, Collins r
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
· 1996 · cited 18,867x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,622x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,984x
- UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age
· 2015 · cited 12,411x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,998x
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Encyclopedic overview
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins (born 23 May 1933) 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 relating to children, which has earned her many honours. In 2015, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for her charitable services, presented to her by then Prince of Wales, Charles III.
Collins trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She signed to The Rank Organisation at the age of 17 and had small roles in the British films Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) and The Woman's Angle (1952) before taking on a supporting role in Judgment Deferred (1952). She went under contract to 20th Century Fox in 1955, 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. Collins continued to take on film roles throughout the late 1950s, appearing in The Opposite Sex (1956), Sea Wife (1957), and The Wayward Bus (1957). After starring in the epic film Esther and the King (1960), she was, upon request, released from her contract with 20th Century Fox.
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