Joan Collins, fully Dame Joan Henrietta Collins, is an English actress and writer. She is best known for her portrayals of bombshells and sexpots, notably the scheming seductress Alexis Carrington on the television soap opera Dynasty (1981–89.)
Born in Paddington, West London, Collins made her film début in Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) and used her sex appeal and headline-catching private life to build a career as an international celebrity. By the 1970s, she appeared in low-budget horror films such as Tales from the Crypt (1972.)
Collins’s fortunes were invigorated with a leading role in the famous television soap opera Dynasty (1981–89.) Collins made her Broadway début in Noel Coward’s Private Lives (1992,) and continued to work regularly in theatre.
Collins’s tell-all autobiographies are Past Imperfect (1978) and Second Act (1996.) She is also the author of several novels, including Prime Time (1988) and Misfortune’s Daughters (2004.)
Collins is sister of the bestselling novelist Jackie Collins, whose work formed the basis for two of Joan’s most infamous films, The Stud (1978) and The Bitch (1979.)
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Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
—Joan Collins
Topics: Loneliness
Age is just a number. It is totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
—Joan Collins
Life is not life unless you make mistakes.
—Joan Collins
Topics: Failures, Mistakes
The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.
—Joan Collins
Topics: Opportunities, Reality
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
—Joan Collins
Topics: Mistakes
I’ve never yet met a man who could look after me. I don’t need a husband. What I need is a wife.
—Joan Collins
Topics: Marriage, Husbands
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