John Collins

Born in the British capital on May 23, 1933, Joan Henrietta Collins is the daughter of a dance teacher and a distinguished artist manager, who among others worked for The Beatles and Tom Jones . Her sister, Jackie Collins , is a popular writer.

After studying acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London, at the age of 17 the J. Arthur Rank studio offered him a contract. She made her film debut in 1951 with an uncredited role in Lady Godiva Rides Again . She made the leap to Hollywood at the hands of the great Howard Hawks , who turned her into a myth by giving her the role of the ambitious Nellifer, princess of Cyprus, who marries the pharaoh of Egypt, in Land of the Pharaohs , with a script by William himself. Faulkner .

Particularly noteworthy is her work as Evelyn Nesbit, a royal showgirl who marries a jealous millionaire, in the biographical The Girl with the Red Trapeze . In Hollywood, Joan Collins filmed with myths such as Bette Davis ( The Queen’s Favorite ), Gregory Peck ( The Merciless Avenger ), James Mason ( An Island in the Sun ), Robert Mitchum ( Private Detective ), Vittorio Gassman ( The Million dollars ) and Paul Newman ( The island of the sea , A husband in distress ).

Off screen Joan Collins has had more love affairs, if possible, than in the movies. Divorced from actor Maxwell Reed , she was linked to Anthony Newley , Ronald S. Kass, Peter Holm and Percy Gibson. She has had affairs with numerous Hollywood personalities, such as Dennis Hopper and Ryan O’Neal , and she was even engaged to the male version of her, the great seducer Warren Beatty . She is further said to have turned down the very same Frank Sinatra , Robert F. Kennedy, Darryl F. Zanuck and Dean Martin .

When her star in the cinema began to fade, she became a regular presence in the most illustrious television series, such as Holidays at Sea , Starsky and Hutch , or Police Woman , although the general public remembers her for Dynasty , one of the greatest cathodic hits of all time. She played the Machiavellian, intelligent and irresistible Alexis Carrington Colby Dexter, who displayed the last names of her ex-husbands like trophies. She became one of the most remembered villains, at a time when she had competition from none other than Angela Channing ( Jane Wyman ) from Falcon Crest and JR ( Larry Hagman ) from Dallas .. For her role, she was nominated six consecutive times for the Golden Globe, which she won in 1983, and where she used to compete with the ‘good’ (and much more ‘bland’) Linda Evans . Much later, both Collins and Evans starred on the stage in “Legends,” a play in which they were two declining actresses facing each other again.

When she stopped being Alexis Carrington, she remained a little more in the shadows, although she never retired, and she has always continued to shoot series and movies such as The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas , where she was the impertinent mother of Wilma Flintstone. She was also an actress who reunited with former co-stars in the TV Movie Those Fabulous Girls , scripted by Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), and where she was accompanied by three other great screen ladies: Shirley MacLaine , Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor . .

Collins has also been very successful with her autobiographical show “An Evening with Joan Collins”, her memoirs and her novels. She has also starred in countless advertising campaigns for fashion products, and is a regular guest on America’s most successful television shows.