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Pauline Collins 1940

M. John Alderton 3 children

First stage appearance was in 1962.

For the play Shirley Valentine she won: Tony Award as "Best Actress in a Play"
Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for "Best Actress in a New Play"
She also had an Oscar nomination for her role in the film version.
Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
The 62nd Annual Academy Awards she was a Nominee for Best Actress in a Leading Role
BAFTA for Best Film Actress
In 2001 she was awarded the O.B.E.

Year Theatre Play Character TV Character Film Character
1957 .. .. ..... Emergency-Ward 10 Nurse .. ..
1962 Theatre Royal, Windsor A Gazelle in Park Lane Sabina .. ..... .. ..
1965 Prince Of Wales Theatre Passion Flower Hotel Lady Janet Wigton .. ..... .. ..
1966 .. .. ..... Theatre 625 - Amerika ..... Secrets of a Windmill Girl Pat Lord
1966 .. .. ..... The Three Musketeers Kitty .. ..
1966 .. .. ..... The Saint - The Better Mousetrap Marie-Therese .. ..
1966 .. .. ..... The Making of Jericho ..... .. ..
1967 Royal Court The Erpingham Camp Lou Softly Softly - Somebody Important Marilyn .. ..
1967 Hampstead Theatre The Happy Apple Nancy Doctor Who - The Faceless Ones Samantha Briggs .. ..
1968 Theatre Royal, Haymarket The Importance of Being Earnest Cecily Armchair Theatre - One Night I Danced with Mr. Dalton Betty .. ..
1968 .. .. ..... The Wednesday Play - Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It Joan Percival .. ..
1969 Comedy Theatre The Night I Chased the Women with an Eel Brenda Cooper The Liver Birds Dawn .. ..
1969 .. .. ..... The Wednesday Play - Happy Angelina .. ..
1970 New Theatre Come As You Are Rosemary and Claire The Mating Machine - Who Sleeps on the Right? Elizabeth .. ..
1970 Apollo Theatre The Happy Apple Nancy Gray .... .... .. ..
1971-1975 .. .. ..... Upstairs, Downstairs Sarah Moffat .. ..
1972 .. .. ..... Thirty-Minute Theatre - Kings Cross / - King's Cross Lunch Time The Girl .. ..
1972 .. .. ..... Country Matters - Crippled Bloom Ruby .. ..
1972 .. .. ..... This Is Your Life Herself .. ..
1974 Comedy Theatre Judies Judy .. ..... .. ..
1974-1975 .. .. ..... No, Honestly Clara Burrell-Danby .. ..
1975 National Theatre Engaged Minnie Symperson Play of the Month - The School for Scandal ..... .. ..
1975-1976 .. .. ..... Wodehouse Playhouse Various Characters .. ..
1976 Apollo Theatre Confusions ..... .. ..... .. ..
1979 .. .. ..... Thomas and Sarah Sarah Moffat .. ..
1979 .. .. ..... Play for Today - Long Distance Information ..... .. ..
1980 Savoy Theatre Rattle of a Simple Man ..... Tales of the Unexpected - A Girl Can't Always Have Everything Pat Lewis .. ..
1983 Apollo Theatre Romantic Comedy ..... Little Miss Narrator .. ..
1984 .. .. ..... Knockback Sylvia .. ..
1985 .. .. ..... Tropical Moon Over Dorking Myra Foster .. ..
1985 .. .. ..... The Black Tower Maggie Hewson .. ..
1987 Vaudeville Woman in Mind ..... .. ..... .. ..
1988 Vaudeville Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine Tales of the Unexpected - The Colonel's Lady Eve Peregrine .. ..
1989-1992 .. .. ..... Forever Green Harriet Boult .. ..
1989 .. .. ..... .. ..... Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw
1992 Albery Theatre Shades ..... .. ..... City of Joy Joan Bethel
1995 .. .. ..... .. ..... Mutters Courage Elsa Tabori
1996 .. .. ..... Flowers of the Forest Aileen Matthews .. ..
1997 .. .. ..... .. ..... Paradise Road Daisy 'Margaret' Drummond
1998 .. .. ..... The Ambassador Ambassador Harriet Smith .. ..
2000 .. .. ..... Little Grey Rabbit ..... Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War Thelma Caldicot
2000 .. .. ..... .. ..... One Life Stand Karaoke Crowd
2002 .. .. ..... Man and Boy Betty Silver .. ..
2003 .. .. ..... Sparkling Cyanide Dr. Catherine Kendall .. ..
2005 .. .. ..... Bleak House Miss Flite .. ..
2006 .. .. ..... Doctor Who - Tooth and Claw Queen Victoria .. ..
2006 .. .. ..... What We Did on Our Holiday Lil Taylor .. ..


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