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Retro · 16-06-2008

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Collins was born in London, the daughter of Elsa (née Bessant), a dance teacher and nightclub hostess, and Joseph William Collins, an agent whose clients included Shirley Bassey, The Beatles and Tom Jones.[1][2] Collins's South African-born father was Jewish and her British mother was Anglican.[3][4][5] She has one sister, the author Jackie Collins, and a brother, Bill Collins. Collins was educated at the Francis Holland School and then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

Collins' childhood was spent in and around Maida Vale and was, according to Collins, an idyllic one with plenty of love, comfort and security. However her father was also a strict disciplinarian and exerted a strong hold over her gentle mother an attitude which came to irritate her daughters who sought to rebel against it. Collins has said of her father that 'He was detached, cold, hard, critical, difficult, acerbic and everyone had to please him.' He himself said 'I love my daughters but I am not the kind of parent who deludes himself that his children are superior to everyone else's. I did not think of them as particularly outstanding in any way.'

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

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Urban Stylin · 16-06-2008

wow she looks like liz taylor in her earlier pics or was that a fancied look at the time. thanks for posting...was she in dynasty or is she the author i always confuse them coz they look so alike

Miss Dalloway · 16-06-2008

^^She does she was billed as "The British Answer to Elizabeth Taylor" she is an actress her sister Jackie is the author, although Joan worte couple of books aswell if i am not mistaken.I read her autobiography years ago and it was lots of fun, i just LOVED how OTT her wardrobe in Dynasty was hahah.