{"id":554327,"date":"2025-11-07T04:07:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/554327\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T04:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:07:22","slug":"oscar-nominated-shirley-valentine-actress-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/554327\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-Nominated ‘Shirley Valentine’ Actress At 85"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPauline Collins<\/a>, the British actress who was best known internationally for her Oscar-nominated role in Shirley Valentine<\/a>, has died at 85.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actress, who had suffered from Parkinson\u2019s disease for several years, died peacefully surrounded by loved ones, according to a statement from her family. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPauline was so many things to so many people, playing a variety of roles in her life. A bright, sparky, witty presence on stage and screen. Her illustrious career saw her play politicians, mothers and queens,\u201d read the statement. \u201cShe will always be remembered as the iconic, strong-willed, vivacious and wise Shirley Valentine \u2013 a role that she made all her own. We were familiar with all those parts of her because her magic was contained in each one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCollins was born on September 3, 1940, in Exmouth and trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe broke out at home in the 1970s in her role of storied domestic Sarah Moffat in the series Upstairs, Downstairs and its spinoff\u00a0Thomas & Sarah.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1989, she achieved international renown for her performance in Shirley Valentine, a big-screen adaptation of Willy Russell\u2019s play for which she already had won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe drama followed the fortunes of a middle-aged, working-class housewife from Liverpool who gets a new lease of life when she wins a holiday to Greece.<\/p>\n

\n\tCollins won the Bafta for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance as well as an Academy Awards nomination. Jessica Tandy won the Oscar that year for another stage-to-screen adaptation, Driving Miss Daisy<\/p>\n

\n\tLater roles included the formidable figure of Harriet Smith in the late-\u201990s TV drama The Ambassador, features You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) and Quartet (2012), the latter alongside Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay and Billy Connolly, as well as last film The Time of Their Lives, a 2017 road movie in which she stared opposite Joan Collins and Franco Nero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pauline Collins, the British actress who was best known internationally for her Oscar-nominated role in Shirley Valentine, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,1490,177183,712,177250,16,15,177251,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-554327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-obituaries","14":"tag-pauline-collins","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-shirley-valentine","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-upstairs-downstairs","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115506449179389746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}