JOAN COLLINS

Dame Joan Collins started as an aspiring actress at the age of 9 in the very prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Her time in RADA eventually led to a very illustrious and successful career on stage. It was when she moved to Hollywood that she was given film credits as a leading lady in the films, The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing and Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, to name a few.

But she returned to her first love, the stage, in the ‘80s when she took the lead roles in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Private Lives, and many more. At the age of 85, Joan Collins focuses on her charity projects, owing to her English title, Dame, which was given and appointed to her in 2015 by Queen Elizabeth II. Collins has delivered a speech on the necessity of increasing funding for neurological research and achieved good results.