Early life

Collins was born in Paddington, London, the daughter of Elsa Collins (née Bessant), a dance teacher and nightclub hostess, and Joseph William Collins (died 1988), an agent whose clients would later include Shirley Bassey, the Beatles, and Tom Jones. Her father, a native of South Africa, was Jewish, and her British mother was Anglican. She has two younger siblings, Jackie (1937-2015) and Bill, a property agent. She was educated at the Francis Holland School, an independent day school for girls in London and then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

At the age of 17, Collins was signed to the J. Arthur Rank Film Company, a British film studio.

Career

Films

Collins made her feature debut as a beauty contest entrant in Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) followed by The Woman's Angle (1952) in a minor role as a Greek maid. Next was a more significant role as a gangster's moll in Judgment Deferred (1952). Her big break came when the Rank Organisation signed her for a major role in I Believe in You (1952). Other roles to follow included Cosh Boy (1953), Decameron Nights (1953), Turn the Key Softly (1953), The Square Ring (1953), and Our Girl Friday (1953).

She was chosen by director Howard Hawks to star in his lavish production of Land of the Pharaohs (1955) as the scheming Princess Nellifer opposite Jack Hawkins. This role led to a contract at 20th Century Fox which had Collins appear or star in such films as The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955), The Opposite Sex (1956), Sea Wife (1957), The Wayward Bus (1957), Island in the Sun (1957), Stopover Tokyo (1958), The Bravados (1958), and Rally Round the Flag, Boys (1959). She finished her Fox contract with the crime caper Seven Thieves (1960) and the biblical epic Esther and the King (1960). One notable film release in the 1960s was The Road to Hong Kong (1962), the last "road" picture of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.

She took a hiatus from her film career to concentrate on having a family after marrying Anthony Newley, and when she resumed her career, it was in the medium of television. Her notable guest appearances on American television during the 1960s and 1970s included Batman, The Virginian, Mission: Impossible, and Police Woman, and Star Trek; in this last, she acted out the role of Edith Keeler in the episode titled "The City on the Edge of Forever."

In the 1970s, Collins made several films, few of them notable, and then starred in the film versions of her sister Jackie Collins's racy novels The Stud and The Bitch. The films were extremely successful financially. The Stud, made for $600,000, went on to gross over $20,000,000 internationally.

Dynasty

In 1981, Collins was offered a role in the second season of the then-struggling new soap opera Dynasty (1981-89) playing Alexis Carrington, the beautiful and vengeful ex-wife of tycoon Blake Carrington (John Forsythe). Her performance is generally credited as one factor in the fledgling show's subsequent rise in the Nielsen ratings to a hit rivaling Dallas.

In 1985, Dynasty was the no. 1 show in the United States, beating out Dallas, which ranked at no. 2. For her portrayal of Alexis, Collins was nominated six times for a Golden Globe Award (every year from 1982 to 1987), winning once in 1983, the same year she was nominated for an Emmy as Best Actress in a Drama Series. Upon accepting the award, Collins thanked Sophia Loren for turning down the part of Alexis. At the age of 50, Collins appeared in a 12-page photo layout for Playboy magazine shot by George Hurrell.

In 1983, Collins starred in Making of a Male Model with young model-actor Jon-Erik Hexum, and in 1984 played a soap star in The Cartier Affair with David Hasselhoff. In the same year, she co-hosted the ABC-TV special Blondes vs. Brunettes. With Dynasty at the height of its success, Collins began producing and starred in the 1986 CBS miniseries Sins and Monte Carlo. But both of these last two were critical and ratings disappointments.

In the 2001 E! True Hollywood Story episode featuring Dynasty, former ABC executive Ted Harbert stated, "The truth is we didn't really believe that we had this thing done as a hit until Joan Collins walked down that courtroom aisle." Co-star Al Corley noted that Collins "just flew" in the role that was "tailor made...just spot on." In Dynasty producer Aaron Spelling's final press interview, he said of Collins: "We didn't write Joan Collins. She played Joan Collins. Am I right? We wrote a character, but the character could have been played by 50 people and 49 of them would have failed. She made it work."

Later career

After the end of Dynasty in 1989, Collins took time off. She rejoined her co-stars for Dynasty: The Reunion, a 1991 miniseries that concluded the series which had been left with a cliffhanger ending after its abrupt cancellation. In the 1990s, Collins made several guest star appearances on series such as Roseanne, The Nanny, and Will & Grace. She also appeared as the main characters of films such as Decadence (1994) and Annie: A Royal Adventure! (1995) (in the latter of which she plays the main antagonist, Lady Edwina Hogbottom) during this period.

In 1990, Collins played Amanda in a revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives. She would later appear in the same play in 1992, starring alongside Simon Jones. In 1991 Collins also appeared in Noël Coward's Tonight at 8:30. She was selected as the cover model for the relaunch of the popular celebrity magazine OK! when it changed from being a monthly to a weekly.

In 1999, Collins was cast in the film version of musical theatre show Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. She played two roles in this film: a pianist and Mrs. Potiphar, the wife of Egyptian millionaire Potiphar. In 2000, Collins joined the cast of The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, a prequel to the 1994 Universal Studios live-action film The Flintstones. She reprised the supporting role of Pearl Slaghoople, Wilma Flintstone's mother, that Elizabeth Taylor had originated. In 2001, she co-starred in the television film These Old Broads with Debbie Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine, and Taylor. The film was written for television by Reynolds's daughter, Carrie Fisher.

In 2002, Collins returned to soap operas in a limited guest run on the American daytime soap Guiding Light. In 2005, actress Alice Krige impersonated Collins in Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, a fictionalised television film based on the creation and behind-the-scenes production of Dynasty.

In early 2006, Collins toured the United Kingdom in An Evening With Joan Collins, a one-woman show in which she detailed the highs and lows of her career and life, directed by her by-then husband Percy Gibson. In 2006, she reunited with her Dynasty co-stars for the nonfiction special Dynasty Reunion: Catfights and Caviar. Later that year, she began a tour of North America in the play Legends! with former Dynasty co-star Linda Evans, which concluded in May of 2007 after a 30-week run.

In 2005, Collins joined the cast of the hit British television series Footballer's Wives for a limited run. She also guest-starred in the BBC series Hotel Babylon in 2006 as a lonely aristocrat desperate for romance. Collins appeared in "They Do It with Mirrors," a two-hour episode of the murder-mystery drama Marple in 2009, as Ruth Van Rydock, a friend of detective Miss Jane Marple.

On 24 January 2010, it was announced that Collins was joining the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love) for a short run. She played an aristocratic British woman, Lady Joan, who takes a young prince, portrayed by German actor Stephan Kaefer (Stephan Käfer), in tow. Collins started shooting on 22 February 2010 and appeared on-screen in April 2010.

She made her pantomime debut in Dick Whittington as Queen Rat at the Birmingham Hippodrome during the 2010 Christmas season, starring alongside Nigel Havers, Keith Harris, and Julian Clary. In May of 2013, Collins announced on her Twitter profile that she would be joining the cast of British TV sitcom Benidorm in a guest role. She lent her voice to the animated feature film Saving Santa (2013) and starred in the fantasy Molly Moon, which was slated for release in 2015.

In August of 2014, People reported that Collins would guest star on the forthcoming E! drama series The Royals as the Grand Duchess of Oxford, the mother of fictional British Queen Helena (Elizabeth Hurley).

In June of 2015, Collins backed the children's fairytales app GivingTales in aid of UNICEF, together with Sir Roger Moore, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley, Sir Michael Caine, David Walliams, Charlotte Rampling and Paul McKenna.

Personal and public life

Family and personal life

Collins has been married five times, first to Northern Irish actor Maxwell Reed, whom she married on 24 May 1952 after he allegedly raped her, and divorced in 1956. She then married Anthony Newley in 1963 and Ron Kass in 1972; she had two children, Tara and Sacha, with Newley and her third, Katyana, with Kass. Collins's marriage to Kass ended in divorce in 1983. On 3 November 1985, Collins married Swedish singer Peter Holm in a ceremony in Las Vegas. They were divorced on 25 August 1987. She married Percy Gibson (born 1965 ) on 17 February 2002 at Claridge's Hotel in London.

Collins is also the godmother of model turned actress Cara Delevingne.

As of 2013, Collins has three grandchildren.

Collins maintains residences in London, Los Angeles, New York City, and France, describing her life as being "that of a gypsy".

Collins' younger sister is the late Jackie Collins, a pioneer of romantic novels. She died in September 2015 at the age of 77 after suffering breast cancer for over six years, which Collins herself was only told less than two weeks before Jackie's death.

Political views

After decades of flirting with British politics, on 24 May 2004, Collins joined the United Kingdom Independence Party. In early 2005, Collins commented that she had rejoined the Conservative Party, stating, "The Labour Party doesn't care about the British people."

Collins contributes to The Spectator as a guest diarist, something she has done since the late 1990s. Collins also writes occasionally for the Daily Mail, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Lady, and in the USA, Harper's Bazaar. In September 2008, Collins signed on to the Sunday Telegraph as a weekly opinions columnist through the final quarter of the year before leaving to pursue other projects. She noted that she was a huge supporter of the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and was one of the handful of guests to be invited to Thatcher's funeral on 17 April 2013. Collins is also a staunch monarchist, stating "I'm a big monarchist and I love the Queen." Collins favours British withdrawal from the European Union.

Charitable work

Collins has publicly supported several charities for several decades. In 1982, Collins spoke before the U.S. Congress about increasing funding for neurological research. In 1983, she was named a patron of the International Foundation for Children with Learning Disabilities, earning the foundation's highest honour in 1988 for her continuing support. Additionally, 1988 also had the opening of the Joan Collins Wing of the Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit. In 1990, she was made an honorary founding member of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. In 1994, Collins was awarded the lifetime achievement award from the Association of Breast Cancer Studies in Great Britain for her contribution to breast cancer awareness in the UK. Collins is patron of Fight for Sight; in 2003, she became a patron of the Shooting Star Chase Children's Hospice in Great Britain while continuing to support several foster children in India, something she has done for the past 25 years. Collins serves her former school, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, as the Honorary President of the RADA Associates.

Books

Collins has also established herself as an author. In addition to her bestselling novels (Prime Time, Love & Desire & Hate, Infamous, Star Quality, and Misfortune's Daughters) she has written six lifestyle books (The Joan Collins Beauty Book, My Secrets, My Friends' Secrets, Joan's Way: The Art of Living Well, and The Joan Collins Cook Book) and memoirs (Past Imperfect, Katy: A Fight for Life, and Second Act). To date, she has sold over 50 million copies of her books which have been translated into 30 languages.

In the 1990s, Collins was embroiled in a high-profile legal battle with the publisher Random House, which was televised daily on Court TV. Collins had signed a two-book deal with the company for $4 million and they had given her a $1.2 million advance. In September 1991, Collins delivered a 690-page manuscript of a novel entitled The Ruling Passion to Random House. However, the publishing firm deemed the manuscript to be of such poor quality that they demanded the return of the $1.2 million advance they had paid to Collins, claiming she had failed to deliver completed books as per her contract. Collins countersued, arguing that her contract required her only to submit a "complete manuscript" not an "acceptable" one. Since she had turned in two novels to the publishing company, A Ruling Passion in 1991 and a second novel, Hell Hath No Fury, in 1992, as her contract stipulated, she felt Random House owed her the rest of the $4 million. She contended that Random House had not provided the editorial assistance she had expected.

Her Random House contract, negotiated by agent Irving Lazar, required that she be paid even if her completed manuscripts were not published. When the case was finally heard in February 1996, a court determined that Collins could keep the advance given to her plus a further $1 million for the first completed manuscript, but that the publisher did not have to pay for the second manuscript since it was essentially a reworking of the first. The Guinness Book of World Records cites Collins as holding the record for retaining the world's largest unreturned payment for an unpublished manuscript.

Memoir

• Past Imperfect: An Autobiography (1978)
• Katy: A Fight for Life, A Memoir (1982)
• Second Act: An Autobiography (1996)
• Passion For Life: An Autobiography (2013)

Nonfiction

• The Joan Collins Beauty Book (1980)
• Portraits of a Star (1987)
• My Secrets (1994)
• Health, Youth and Happiness: My Secrets (1995)
• My Friends' Secrets (1999)
• Joan's Way: Looking Good, Feeling Great (2002)
• The Art of Living Well: Looking Good, Feeling Great (2007)
• The World According to Joan (2011)

Fiction

• Prime Time, a novel (1988)
• Love and Desire and Hate, a novel (1990)
• Too Damn Famous, a novel (1995) retitled Infamous for US (1996)
• Star Quality, a novel (2002)
• Misfortune's Daughters, a novel (2004)
• The St. Tropez Lonely Hearts Club, a novel (2015)

By other authors

• Joan Collins by John Kercher, Gallery Books (1984)
• Joan Collins, Superstar: A Biography by Robert Levine, Dell Publishing (1985)
• A Touch of Collins by Joe Collins, Columbus Books (1986)
• Inside Joan Collins: A Biography by Jay David, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. (1988)
• Hollywood Sisters: Jackie and Joan Collins by Susan Crimp and Patricia Burstein, St. Martin's Press (1989)
• Joan Collins: The Biography of an Icon by Graham Lord, Orion (2007)

Legal actions

In 1996 Joan Collins won a lawsuit against Random House for one million dollars. She had signed a book deal, but after the delivery of the book manuscript Random House decided the book was unreadable and did not publish the book.

TV advertisements

Beginning in the early 1950s, Collins appeared as a teenager in a Gas Board Commercial.

In the early 1970s, she appeared in television and magazine advertisements for British Airways, in which she was referred to as their "Most Frequent Flyer of First Class", a title she has maintained, having promoted the airline for more than three decades.

In 1978, she appeared alongside Leonard Rossiter in a series of Cinzano TV commercials in which the drink was spilled down her dress. It was named as one of the Top 100 British Adverts in a Channel 4 poll.

In the mid-1980s, Collins appeared in print advertisements for Canada Dry Ginger Ale and Sanyo, and was the face of Revlon's Scoundrel perfume.

In 1988, she appeared in three TV commercials for the Bristol and West Building Society written and directed by Stephen Ward, who wrote the film Backbeat (1994).

In 1991, she appeared in a television commercial for British Gas.

In 1992, she appeared in internationally broadcast television commercials for Marca Bravaria beer, while acting as the face of the perfume Spectacular.

Since 2000, she has appeared in TV ads for UK retailer Marks & Spencer, Olympus cameras, Old Navy, and Marriott hotels.

In 2007, Collins fronted two high-profile advertising campaigns. The first was as the face of skincare company Cellex-C's Ageless 15 Skin Serum; the second was as the face of the Royal Mail's Christmas campaign.

In 2008, Collins took part in an online and print advertising campaign for the Dorchester Hotel in London and a Christmas television commercial for Marks & Spencer.

In 2010, Collins was named the face of Alexis Bittar Jewelry for Spring Fashion Week.

In 2012, she appeared in an advertisement for Snickers chocolate bars, alongside Stephanie Beacham.

Music

Collins is known to have made several forays into singing.

• In 1959, she performed "It's Great Not To Be Nominated" at the Academy Awards with actresses Angela Lansbury and Dana Wynter.
• In 1962, she sang "Let's Not Be" in the film The Road to Hong Kong with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
• Collins teamed up with Peter Sellers and her then-husband Anthony Newley in 1963 to record the album Fool Britannia, which made the UK Top 10.
• In 1968, she sang a zodiac-themed duet with Newley, titled "Chalk & Cheese", in Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
• Collins's role in the 1986 mini-series Monte Carlo was as Katrina Petrovna, a singer who doubles as a spy; "The Last Time I Saw Paris" was one of the songs she sang in character.
• In 2001, Collins sang several songs in the television movie These Old Broads, including Get Happy.

Honours

On 31 December 1996, Collins was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama, and in the 2015 New Year Honours promoted Dame Commander of the same Order (DBE) for services to charity.

Awards

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• 1956: Golden Globe Most Promising Young Actress Award
• 1957: Star of Tomorrow
• 1957: Motion Picture Magazine Award, Most Promising New Star
• 1978: Saturn Award nomination, Best Actress in a Science Fiction film, Empire of the Ants
• 1982: Golden Globe nomination, Best Actress in a TV Series (Drama), Dynasty
• 1982: Hollywood Women's Press Club, Female Star of 1982
• 1982: Golden Apple Award, Female Star of the Year
• 1983: Emmy Award nomination, Best Actress in a TV Series (Drama), Dynasty
• 1983: The Hollywood International Spotlight Award
• 1983: Golden Globe, Best Actress in a TV Series (Drama), Dynasty
• 1983: Cable ACE Award nomination, Best Actress in a Drama Series, Faerie Tale Theatre's Hansel and Gretel
• 1983: Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Career Achievement
• 1984: People's Choice Award, Favorite female television performer, Dynasty
• 1984: Soap Opera Digest Award, Outstanding Villainess in a Primetime Drama Series, Dynasty
• 1984: Golden Globe nomination, Best Actress in a TV Series (Drama), Dynasty
• 1985: People's Choice Award, nomination Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series, Dynasty
• 1985: Soap Opera Digest Award, Outstanding Villainess in a Primetime Drama Series, Dynasty
• 1985: Golden Globe nomination, Best Actress in a TV Series (Drama), Dynasty
• 1986: Soap Opera Digest Award nomination, Outstanding Villainess in a Primetime Drama Series and Outstanding Actress in a Comic Relief Role in a Primetime Drama Series, Dynasty
• 1986: People's Choice Award, nomination favourite female television performer, Dynasty
• 1986: Telegatto Television Awards, Best Actress in a TV Series (Drama), Dynasty
• 1986: Golden Globe nomination, Best Actress in a TV Series (Drama), Dynasty
• 1987: Golden Globe nomination, Best Actress in a TV Series (Drama), Dynasty
• 1988: Soap Opera Digest Award nomination, Outstanding Villainess in a Primetime Drama Series, Dynasty
• 1996: OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II for her contribution to the arts and ongoing charity work
• 1999: Millennium Award of Achievement, Golden Camera Film Council
• 2000: Golden Raspberry Award nomination, Worst Supporting Actress, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
• 2001: Golden Nymph, Outstanding Female Actor, Monte Carlo Television Festival
• 2002: Icon Award, Maxim Magazine, UK
• 2003: TV Land Awards, nomination, Hippest Fashion Plate - Female
• 2005: Lifetime Achievement Award, San Diego International Film Festival
• 2008: Legend Award, Los Angeles Italia-Film, Fashion and Arts Festival
• 2010: New York City International Film Festival, Best Actress, Fetish
• 2010: Beverly Hills Film, TV and New Media Festival, Best Actress, Fetish
• 2011: Cosmetic Executive Women (UK) Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2012: Shorts Awards, Visionary Actress, Fetish
• 2013: Lifetime Achievement Award, Sedona International Film Festival
• 2014: Awards "Freedom of the City of London"
• 2015: DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to charity (in the 2015 New Years Honours List)
• 2015: UKARES awards "The UKares Icon Award"

Credits

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1951	Facts and Fancies		Short film
1951	Lady Godiva Rides Again	Beauty Queen Contestant	Uncredited
1952	The Woman's Angle	Marina
1952	Judgment Deferred	Lil Carter
1952	I Believe in You	Norma Hart
1953	Decameron Nights	Pampinea / Maria
1953	Cosh Boy	Rene Collins
1953	Turn the Key Softly	Stella Jarvis
1953	The Square Ring	Frankie
1953	Our Girl Friday	Sadie Patch
1954	The Good Die Young	Mary Halsey / Mary
1955	Land of the Pharaohs	Princess Nellifer
1955	The Virgin Queen	Beth Throckmorton
1955	The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing	Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
1956	The Opposite Sex	Crystal
1957	Sea Wife	Sea Wife
1957	The Wayward Bus	Alice Chicoy
1957	Island in the Sun	Jocelyn Fleury
1957	Stopover Tokyo	Tina Llewellyn
1958	The Bravados	Josefa Velarde
1958	Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!	Angela Hoffa
1960	Seven Thieves	Melanie
1960	Esther and the King	Esther
1962	The Road to Hong Kong	Diane
1964	Hard Time for Princes	Jane
1967	Warning Shot	Joanie Valens
1968	Subterfuge	Anne Langley
1969	Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?	Polyester Poontang
1969	If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium	Girl on Sidewalk	Cameo appearance
1969	L'amore breve	Roberta
1970	The Executioner	Sarah Booth
1970	Up in the Cellar	Pat Camber
1971	Revenge	Carol Radford
1971	Quest for Love	Ottilie / Tracy Fletcher
1972	Tales from the Crypt	Joanne Clayton	Segment: "And All Through The House"
1972	Fear in the Night	Molly Carmichael
1973	Dark Places	Sarah Mandeville
1973	Tales That Witness Madness	Bella Thompson	Segment: "Mel"
1974	L'arbitro	Elena Sperani
1975	I Don't Want to Be Born	Lucy Carlesi
1975	Il richiamo del lupo	Sonia Kendall
1976	Alfie Darling	Fay
1976	The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones	Black Bess
1976	Il pomicione
1977	Empire of the Ants	Marilyn Fryser
1978	Fearless	Brigitte
1978	The Big Sleep	Agnes Lozelle
1978	Zero to Sixty	Gloria Martine
1978	The Stud	Fontaine Khaled
1979	Game for Vultures	Nicolle
1979	Sunburn	Nera
1979	The Bitch	Fontaine Khaled
1982	Homework	Diane
1983	Nutcracker	Laura Carrere
1994	Decadence	Helen / Sybil
1995	In the Bleak Midwinter	Margaretta D'Arcy
1996	The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story	Herself
1997	Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas!	Herself
1999	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat	Mrs. Potiphar
1999	The Clandestine Marriage	Mrs. Heidelberg	Also executive producer
2000	The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas	Pearl Slaghoople
2004	Ellis in Glamourland	Susan
2006	Ozzie	Max Happy
2007	Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven	Herself
2008	Valentino: The Last Emperor	Herself
2010	Fetish	Francesca Vonn	Short film
2013	Saving Santa	Vera Baddington	Voice
2014	Molly Moon: The Incredible Hypnotist	Nockman's Mother
2015	The Time of Their Lives	Helen

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1964	The Human Jungle	Liz Kross	Episode: "Struggle for a Mind"
1966	Run for Your Life	Gilian Wales	Episode: "The Borders of Barbarism"
1966	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Baroness Bibi De Chasseur / Rosy Shlagenheimer	Episode: "The Galatea Affair"
1967	Star Trek	Edith Keeler	Episode: "The City on the Edge of Forever"
1967	The Virginian	Lorna Marie Marshall	Episode: "The Lady from Wichita"
1967	Batman	Siren	Episodes: "Ring Around the Riddler" and "The Wail of the Siren"
1967	The Danny Thomas Hour	Myra	Episode: "The Demon Under the Bed"
1969	Mission: Impossible	Nicole Vedette	Episode: "Nicole"
1972	The Persuaders!	Sidonie	Episode: "Five Miles to Midnight"
1972	The Man Who Came to Dinner	Lorraine Sheldon	TV Movie
1973	Drive Hard, Drive Fast	Carole Bradley	TV Movie
1973	Great Mysteries	Jane Blake	Episode: "The Dinner Party"
1974	Fallen Angels	Jane Banbury	TV pilot
1975	Ellery Queen	Lady Daisy Frawley	Episode: "The Adventure of Auld Lang Syne"
1975	Switch	Jackie Simon	Episode: "Stung from Beyond"
1975	Space: 1999	Kara	Episode: "Mission of the Darians"
1976	Baretta	Lynn Stiles	Episode: "Pay or Die"
1976	Police Woman	Lorelei Frank / Prudence Clark	Episodes: "The Pawn Shop" and "The Trick Book"
1976	Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers	Avril Devereaux	TV Mini-Series
1976	Gibbsville	Andrea	Episode: "Andrea"
1977	The Fantastic Journey	Queen Halyana	Episode: "Turnabout"
1977	Future Cop	Eve Di Falco	Episode: "The Kansas City Kid"
1977	Starsky and Hutch	Janice	Episode: "Starsky and Hutch on Playboy Island"
1979-1980	Tales of the Unexpected	Various	3 episodes
1980	Fantasy Island	Lucy Atwell	Episode: "My Fair Pharaoh/The Power"
1981-1989	Dynasty	Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan	Series regular, 195 episodes
1982	Tattletales	Herself	TV Game Show
1982	Paper Dolls	Racine	TV Movie
1982	The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch	Annie McCulloch	TV Movie
1983	The Love Boat	Janine Adams	Episode: "The Captain's Crush/Out of My Hair/Off-Course Romance"
1983	Making of a Male Model	Kay Dillon	TV Movie
1983	Hansel and Gretel	Stepmother / Witch	TV Movie
1984	Her Life as a Man	Pam Dugan	TV Movie
1984	The Cartier Affair	Cartier Rand / Marilyn Hallifax	TV Movie
1986	Sins	Helene Junot	TV Mini-Series, also executive producer
1986	Monte Carlo	Katrina Petrovna	TV Movie, also executive producer
1991	Red Peppers	Lily Pepper	TV Movie, also executive producer
1991	Tonight at 8.30	Various	Series regular, 8 episodes, also executive producer
1991	Dynasty: The Reunion	Alexis Morrell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan	TV Movie
1993	Roseanne	Ronnie	Episode: "First Cousin, Twice Removed"
1993	Mama's Back	Tamara Hamilton	TV pilot
1993	Egoli: Place of Gold	Catherine Sinclair	Special Guest Star
1995	Annie: A Royal Adventure!	Lady Edwina Hogbottom	TV Movie
1995	Hart to Hart: Two Harts in 3/4 Time	Lady Camilla	TV Movie
1996	The Nanny	Joan Sheffield	Episode: "Me and Mrs. Joan"
1997	Pacific Palisades	Christina Hobson	7 episodes
1998	Sweet Deception	Arianna	TV Movie
2000	Will & Grace	Helena Barnes	Episode: "My Best Friend's Tush"
2001	These Old Broads	Addie Holden	TV Movie
2002	Guiding Light	Alexandra 'Alex' Spaulding von Halkein Thorpe	Special guest star
2005	Slavery and the Making of America	Reenactor	Episode: "Seeds of Destruction"
2006	Hotel Babylon	Lady Imogen Patton	Episode: "1.7"
2006	Footballers' Wives	Eva De Wolffe	Episodes: "5.5" and "5.6"
2009	Agatha Christie Marple: They Do It with Mirrors	Ruth Van Rydock	TV Movie
2010	Rules of Engagement	Bunny Dunbar	Episode: "Les-bro"
2012-2013	Happily Divorced	Herself	3 episodes
2014, 2015, 2016	Benidorm	Crystal Hennessy-Vass	Recurring
2015-2016	The Royals	The Grand Duchess of Oxford	Recurring

Theatre

• 1946, A Doll's House at the Arts Theatre, London.
• 1952, The Seventh Veil at the Queen's Theatre, London.
• 1952, Jassey at the Queens's Theatre, London.
• 1953, The Praying Mantis UK Tour.
• 1953, Claudia and David at the Queen's Theatre, London.
• 1954, The Skin of Our Teeth at the Queen's Theatre, London.
• 1979, Murder in Mind at the Chichester and Brighton theatres, Chichester & Brighton.
• 1980, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester.
• 1981, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney at the Cambridge Theatre, London.
• 1990-1991, Private Lives at the Aldwych Theatre, London.
• 1991-1992, Private Lives at the Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway, New York.
• 2000, Love Letters United States Tour.
• 2001, Over the Moon at the Old Vic Theatre, London.
• 2004, Full Circle UK Tour.
• 2006, An Evening with Joan Collins UK Tour.
• 2006-2007, Legends North American Tour.
• 2010, One Night with Joan at Feinsteins at the Regency, New York.
• 2010-2011, Dick Whittington at the Birmingham Hippodrome, UK
• 2011, One Night with Joan Australian Tour.
• 2011-2014, One Night with Joan at the Leicester Square Theatre, London.
• 2012, One Night with Joan at the Alban Arena, St Alban's, Hertfordshire, UK.
• 2012, Joan Collins: One Night in the Hay at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London.
• 2012, One Night with Joan at the De La Mar Theatre, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 2013, One Night with Joan UK Tour.
• 2016, Unscripted UK Tour.

Charities

Joan Collins supports the following charitable causes: Diabetes, Alzheimer's, Cancer.

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