Pauline Collins
Pauline Collins ( born September 3, 1940 in Exmouth, Devon, England) is a British theater and film actress.
Life
A native of the county of Devon artist received her artistic training at the beginning of the 60s at London's Central School of Speech and Drama and was since her stage debut in 1962 in Windsor in the play A Gazelle in Park Lane on stage. Since 1965, Pauline Collins also worked at London's theaters ( debut in Passion Flower Hotel on Prince of Wales Theatre ), a personal triumph she celebrated as Sarah in the piece Upstairs Downstairs. Also in the television series of the same name, you could see Pauline Collins early 70s.
For her performance as frustrated by the dismal marriage everyday housewife Shirley Valentine, the home, hearth and unloving husband of one day leaving the others to seek their fortune on a remote civilization located, Greek island, and also (in the form of a warm find locals), received the British in the eponymous emancipation piece ( Shirley Valentine ), a wealth of theater prices ( UK Olivier Award, New York Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award ). Pauline Collins was largely film- inexperienced - her debut was with the female lead role in the highly speculative B- movies The Scandal Girl Soho - as it was in 1988 engaged for the film version of Shirley Valentine, directed by the Bond movie veterans Lewis Gilbert. Their performance is shown there also convinced Hollywood, and she was ' female lead best ' nominated for an Oscar in the category.
The unspectacular and little glamorous acting from their outer appearance artist undertook to continue only guest appearances in the film, but occupied their remarkable versatility: So Pauline Collins convinced than captured by the Japanese during the Second World War British woman Margaret Drummond, in the tough woman drama Paradise Road bearing strains did not survive; Joan Bethel, dedicated head doctor of a poor hospital in Kolkata, in the picturesque India - drama City of Joy and as titular mother George Tabori, who as a Jew in Michael Verhoeven's drama Mother Courage of procrastination to Auschwitz with backbone, format and a good portion of luck missing ( in the form of a cultivated SS officer ).
Pauline Collins is with the actor John Alderton ( born 1940 ), her partner of three television series, married.