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.

Filmography

• 2017The Time of Their Lives — Priscilla
• 2016Ernestine & Kit — Ernestine
• 2016The Last Dragonslayer — Lady Mawgon
• Dickensian — Mrs Gamp
• 2015Dough — Joanna
• 2012Quartet — Cissy Robson
• 2011Albert Nobbs — Margaret Baker
• Mount Pleasant
• 2010You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger — Cristal
• 2009From Time to Time — Mrs. Tweedle
• Merlin — Alice
• 2006What We Did on Our Holiday — Lil Taylor
• Bleak House — Miss Flite
• Doctor Who — Queen Victoria
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Thyrza Grey
• 2003Sparkling Cyanide — Dr. Catherine Kendall
• 2002Man and Boy — Betty Silver
• 2002Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War — Thelma Caldicot
• Little Grey Rabbit
• The Ambassador
• 1997Paradise Road — Daisy 'Margaret' Drummond
• 1996Flowers of the Forest — Aileen Matthews
• 1995My Mother's Courage — Elsa Tabori
• 1992City of Joy — Joan Bethel
• Forever Green
• 1989Shirley Valentine — Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw
• 1985Knockback: 1 — Sylvia
• 1985Knockback: 2 — Sylvia
• Screen Two — Sylvia Barker, Aileen Matthews
• The Black Tower — Maggie Hewson
• Little Miss — Female Voices
• 1979Long Distance Information — Eileen
• Tales of the Unexpected — Eve Peregrine, Pat Lewis
• Thomas & Sarah — Sarah Moffat
• No, Honestly
• Wodehouse Playhouse — Susan Blake
• Armchair 30 — Carol
• Country Matters — Ruby
• 1972Crippled Bloom — Ruby
• 1972King's Cross Lunch Hour — The Girl
• Upstairs, Downstairs — Sarah
• Wink To Me Only
• B-And-B
• 1968Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It — Joan Percival
• 1967Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones — Samantha Briggs
• 1967Love Life — Mary Murtagh
• Trapped — Jacky
• 1966Secrets of a Windmill Girl
• The Corridor People — Syrie's Maid
• The Three Musketeers — Kitty
• BBC Play of the Month — Lady Teazle, Dawn
• Blackmail — Frieda Straker
• Pardon the Expression — Miss Wainwright
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — The Girl
• The Wednesday Play — Joan Percival, Angelina
• Theatre 625 — Clara
• Doctor Who — Samantha Briggs
• The Saint — Marie-Therese
• Armchair Theatre — Betty, Mary Murtagh
• Byrd and the Bees — Beatrice

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Wogan — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Winner / Performer