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Joan Collins

Joan Collins's biography

Joan Collins is 89 years old television actor born at London. She was born on Tuesday 23rd of May 1933. According to year of birth 1933 she belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 23rd of May means she is Gemini. Gemini is a dual sign of Zodiac Belt. One born with this rising sign is very dual and creative in nature with lots of verbosity. They are the most expressive people as they love talking.She was married 4 times.

She is citizen of United Kingdom. Her primary profession is to be television actor. You can know her also as film actor, model, playwright, non-fiction writer, novelist, stage actor. She is recently known as television producer.

Joan Collins's family

Joan Collins's ex spouses

Anthony Newley

Joan Collins and Anthony Newley have been together since 1963 for 8 years. He is known as actor. Her ex spouse was born on Thursday 24th of September 1931 in London. Her ex spouse died on Wednesday 14th of April 1999 in Jensen Beach. Anthony Newley was 66 years old, when this happened.

Maxwell Reed

Joan Collins and Maxwell Reed have been together since 1952 for 4 years. He is known as actor. Her ex spouse was born on Wednesday 2nd of April 1919 in Larne. Her ex spouse died on Friday 16th of August 1974 in England. Maxwell Reed was 41 years old, when this happened.

Ronald S. Kass

Joan Collins and Ronald S. Kass have been together since 1972 for 11 years. He is known as film producer. Her ex spouse was born on Saturday 30th of March 1935 in Philadelphia. Her ex spouse died on Friday 17th of October 1986. Ronald S. Kass was 53 years old, when this happened.

Peter Holm

Joan Collins and Peter Holm have been together since 1985 for 2 years. He is known as singer. Her ex spouse was born on Friday 13th of June 1947 in Sweden.

She has 1 daughter.

Joan Collins's daughter: Tara Newley Arkle

Joan Collins's daughter's name is Tara Newley Arkle. She is known as singer. Her daughter was born on Saturday 12th of October 1963 in New York City.

Joan Collins's schools

We found 2 schools She attended. Complete list of schools: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Francis Holland School.

Joan Collins's career

Her main focus is to be television actor.

Awards and competitions

Joan Collins's Awards

  • She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1997 Queen's New Year's Honours List for her services to drama.
  • She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6901 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on December 14, 1983.
  • She was awarded the DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2015 Queen's New Year Honours List for her services to charity. She is a philanthropist and a charity campaigner.

What Joan Collins has done for a first time

  • Her first agent was her father Joseph Collins in London. Later in her career, her agent was the well-regarded Swifty Lazar (aka "Swifty" Lazar), until his death on December 30, 1993.
  • First husband Maxwell Reed tried to sell her to an Arab sheik for £10,000, just seven months after their wedding.
  • Separated permanently with first husband Maxwell Reed on her 21st birthday.

Joan Collins's quotes

  • [1984] I enjoyed being an adulteress... taking a certain vengeance for the fact that my husband was not being faithful.
  • The unfortunate statistics are that there are far more available and fabulous over-40 women than there are available and fabulous over-40 men.
  • The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
  • It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that.
  • I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.
  • After a certain age, you get the face you deserve.
  • I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.
  • [1995] I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?
  • Age, in my opinion, has no bearing at all, that is unless, of course, one happens to be a bottle of wine.
  • [on Margaret Thatcher's 80th birthday] She's the Iron Lady and I want to be just like that when I grow up.
  • The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
  • I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
  • The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.
  • [on her guest starring role on Star Trek (1966)] People still want to talk to me about that episode - some remember me more for that than anything else I've done. (September/October 2006, Star Trek Magazine issue #1)
  • [on her character in The Bitch (1979)] She appears to have the world by the balls, but underneath she's trying to solve the problem of loneliness, which I think is the universal problem of all rich people.
  • Dynasty (1981) was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than walking around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
  • Even when you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
  • [on Italian film director Roberto Rossellini] Rossellini was a stubborn, opinionated genius who had total autonomy over all his productions.
  • [on George Peppard] He's arrogant -- the sort of man who expects women to fall at his feet at the slightest command; who throws his weight around. He gives the impression that he's the star, what he says goes and that nobody else is very important.
  • [on success] Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
  • [on the death of longtime friend and former teacher, John Forsythe, who played Blake Carrington] He was one of the last of the true gentlemen of the acting profession. I enjoyed our nine years of feuding, fussing and fighting as the Carringtons.
  • [on her experience of a real life haunting in Venice, Italy] There is no way I am staying another night in this palazzo.
  • The compartment that's easy to put me in is "freethinking, sexy broad with a dirty mouth, who pretty much does what she wants". But there's more to me than that.
  • My father is Jewish and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
  • [on her engagement to Percy Gibson] I warned him that we would be attacked remorselessly in the media.
  • Mum was Church of England, Daddy was Jewish but we weren't religious at all. We didn't celebrate at all. I do feel Jewish, but I feel Christian as well.

Joan Collins's body shape

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