Most Recent Role: Herself on The Graham Norton Show
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Birthday: 5-23-1933
Birth Name: Joan Henrietta Collins
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Birthday: 5-23-1933
Birth Name: Joan Henrietta Collins
Joan Henrietta Collins was born on May 23rd at Bayswater Nursing Home in London. The eldest of three children, she was named for her father Joe and grandmother Henrietta Collins. Joan was infatuated with movies from the moment she saw "The Wizard of Oz" and began to crystalize the image of herself on the stage.
When she asked her father if she could audition for the Royal Academy of...
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Most Recent Appearance
Episode 12
Thursday 17 May 2007 on BBC-2
This week Graham talks to Jason Donovan and Joan Collins. Featuring music from Ben's Brother.
Joan appeared on the cover of Playboy, December 1983 at the age of 50.
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By the end of Dynasty's run on television, Joan was making a whopping $120,000 per episode.
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Joan was a great admirer of former prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.
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Turned down Frank Sinatra, Robert F. Kennedy, Darryl F. Zanuck and Dean Martin.
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She had affairs with Dennis Hopper, Arthur Lowe, Sydney Chaplin, Ryan O'Neal, and George Englund (Cloris Leachman's husband).
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Joan: Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than sitting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
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Joan: According to my sister, the expert novelist Jackie Collins, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not. I've divorced men for that.
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Joan: Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.
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Joan: Cosmetic surgery is the plain woman's revenge. I think everybody should do what they want to do, if they want to have lips like a trout, let them.
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Joan: The thing about sex is you should have as much of it as you can.
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Other Appearances
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Dynasty
Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan (episodes 16-220; Reunion) |
Guiding Light
Alexandra Spaulding (2002) |
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Tonight At 8:30
Various Characters |
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GMTV
Herself |
Pacific Palisades
Christina Hobson |
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Anderson Cooper 360°
Wednesday, September 17, 2003 Herself - Video clip |
Aspel & Company
Joan Collins, Tony Curtis, Pamela Stephenson Herself |
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Aspel & Company
Joan Collins, Kenny Everett, Keith Floyd Herself |
Baretta
Pay or Die Lynn Stiles |
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Batman (1966)
The Wail of the Siren Loreli Circe, The Siren |
Batman (1966)
Ring Around the Riddler Loreli Circe, The Siren |
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