Michelle Collins

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Michelle Danielle Collins (born 28 May 1961) is an English actor and TV presenter best known for her appearances in the British soap operas EastEnders and Coronation Street. Collins appeared on BBC soap EastEnders from 1988 to 1998, with a two-year break between 1990 and 1992.

Stella Price appeared on Coronation Street from 2011 to 2014.

Real Women (1998–99), Sunburn (1999–2000), and Two Thousand Acres of Sky (2001–03) are among her other television appearances.

Early life and education

Collins was born in Hackney, east London, to Mary, a Welsh mother, and a father of English and Flemish roots. Her Flemish grandfather was from Antwerp and had immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1915, when she was five years old. Their mother Mary brought her and her elder sister Vicki up in Highbury, London. When Collins was 14 years old, she returned to university to obtain a law degree. Collins, a member of the Woodcraft Folk Club, was a member of the Woodcraft Folk Society in the 1970s and visited Romania with the group.

She studied drama and theatre at O/A-level at Royal Court Activists and Cockpit Youth Theatre from the age of 14, as well as Kingsway Princeton College, where she studied drama and theatre at O/A-level.

Personal life

Collins has a daughter by ex-partner Fabrizio Tassalini, Maia Rose (born 29 September 1996).

Collins admitted in 1998 that she attempted suicide in Cyprus while filming Sunburn, being distraught by the end of her friendship with Tassalini and feeling job anxiety. She had an overdose of sleeping pills but later woke up and asked her costar to drive her to the hospital.

Collins had an amicable friendship with Tassalini, who lived close by, and they raised their daughter together until he died in 2014. Collins revealed in April 2022 that she was engaged to Mike Davidson, her ten-year husband. They married in August.

In August 2014, Collins was one of 200 public figures to sign a letter opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to the independence referendum in September.

Collins is active in charitable causes. She has visited Brazil, South Africa, and Armenia, promoting the need for the universal right to education. She is also a spokesperson for Autism Concerns and a patron of the Alexandra Wylie Tower Foundation.

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Career

Collins landed a role in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Crimson Island, directed by Lou Stein at the Gate Theatre, after her exams. Since appearing in the 1978 film "Cool For Cats," she changed direction. The band spent 18 months touring the country, working with artists including Marc Almond, Level 42, Altered Images, and Kid Creole and the Coconuts.

When the band broke up in 1982, she rediscovered acting, and with the help of her friend, British actor Tim Roth, she gained a role in a musical with Gary Hutton and Gary Shail titled H.M.V. Jacqueline Wilson had also appeared in The Illustrated Mum.

In the BBC drama Morgan's Boy, Collins' first television appearance was with Gary Oldman. Other TV credits included two series of the sitcom Running Wild, where she played Ray Brooks' daughter; an ITV drama The Bill; and a BBC play Pressures. She appeared in three films afterward: Personal Services, Empire State, and Stephen Poliakoff's Hidden City. Collins appeared in an episode of the BBC's Bergerac (series 4) in 1985.

Collins was spotted by EastEnders producer Julia Smith, who wanted her to audition for the role of Cindy Beale, who would appear in 11 episodes of the BBC play Pressures in 1988. The manipulative, irresponsible personality of her character made her job much more popular, prompting her to resign and make the story's protagonist a major villain. Between 1988 and 1998, Cindy was the unfaithful wife of EastEnders stalwart Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt). With Pauline Quirke and Frances Barber, she filmed the drama Real Women for the BBC during breaks from EastEnders. Collins reprised Cindy's role for a brief period of Children in Need on November 14, 2014.

Since leaving EastEnders in 1998 (when her character was unintentionally killed offscreen), her career flourished with a number of drama roles. These include two series of Real Women (BBC One); two series of Sunburn (BBC One), for which Collins performed the theme tune (which was a no. ) Daylight Robbery (ITV): The Sleeper (BBC One); The Sleeper (ITV): three seasons of Two Thousand Acres of Sky (BBC One); Ella and the Mothers (BBC One): 1998 hit number 28 in the UK Singles Chart; Daylight Robbery (ITV); The Sleeper (ITV); and Daylight Robbery (ITV): the two-part series Perfect (ITV); Two Thousand Acres of Sky (ITV): The Sleeper (ITV): The Sleeper (ITV): The Sleeper (ITV): The Sleeper (ITV): Two Hundred (ITV); Lloyd and the Mothers (ITV): In 2003, Collins appeared in Single in Sarah Barton's.

Collins shot the BBC drama Sea of Souls in 2003 and then appeared in The Illustrated Mum, a film for Granada/Channel 4, which told the tale of two girls struggling with the unpredictable behavior of their depressed, alcoholic mother. The film, written by Jacqueline Wilson, was based on the children's book of the same name. It was a success over Christmas 2003 and received an Emmy Award and two BAFTAs.

She appeared in an episode of French and Saunders in 2004 and then appeared alongside fellow EastEnders actor Martin Kemp in the ITV drama Can't Buy Me Love, which was watched by nearly eight million viewers. Howard Walmsley, who was banned for fraud after claiming to win the lottery to keep his wife Donna (played by Collins) from leaving him, was influenced by the program's real life tale. The events that followed turned their lives and marriages upside down. Collins appeared in the ITV drama The Last Detective and the BBC drama The Family Man, co-EastEnder Daniela Denby-Ashe, both starred in the ITV drama The Last Detective and the BBC drama The Family Man, both of whom appeared in March 2006. She appeared in the West End musical Daddy Cool, and during the night, there were shooting sequences for a cameo in Vicki Psarias' short film Broken, which went on to win numerous international awards. She appeared in the film Don't Stop Dreaming, which was also released in 2007. In January 2007, she left Daddy Cool to shoot the Doctor Who episode "42" on "42."

Collins was cast in the lead role of Karina Faith in Shed Productions' latest ITV drama series Rock Rivals, released on July 2nd, 2007. Collins appeared on BBC Wales' Coming Home to tell her Welsh family history. Collins was rumored to appear in Desperate Housewives, but the actress did participate in the film on May 21, 2009.

In June 2010, it was revealed that Collins would make a six-episode guest appearance in Casualty as a patient's mother. She appeared in Romeo & Juliet, playing the Nurse in 2010. In The Demolition Man, Collins appeared in Sheila Grundy, Fred Dibnah's third wife, from 7 April to May 2011.

Collins was reportedly in talks to join EastEnders' most popular soap Coronation Street, according to a rumour shared on digital Spy, after she reportedly met with soap's producer and close friend Phil Collinson. Collins had joined the cast as Stella Price, the Rovers Return pub's new landlady, defeating Lisa Maxwell for the role. On June 16, 2011, her first episode aired on June 16, 2011 and received a rating of 8.4 million. Collins had announced on August 22nd that it had left Coronation Street. Collins cried over a lack of screen time for her and her characters in January 2014. Collins appeared on 19 February 2014 and made her last appearance as Stella on May 2, 2014.

Collins has appeared in television dramas as Samantha Kellman (2014), Death in Paradise as Annette Burgess (2015), and Midsomer Murders as Nadine Campbell (2016), since leaving Coronation Street. Lorna Rowle/Hammond appeared in Casualty in October 2019.

Collins appeared in the ITV reality series Bear Grylls: Mission Survive. 2-1

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