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Oscar-nominated actor starred as Shirley Valentine

Los Angeles Times

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November 12, 2025

British actor Pauline Collins, who earned an Oscar nomination for her turn as the stuck-in-a-rut housewife “Shirley Valentine,” has died. She was 85.

- ALEXANDRA DEL ROSARIO

Oscar-nominated actor starred as Shirley Valentine

JOEL RYAN Invision/AP A 'SPARKY' TALENT Before the "Shirley Valentine" film, Pauline Collins won a Tony for her work in the stage production.

Collins’ family said in a statement Thursday that the actor died peacefully this week at her care home in north London after living with Parkinson’s disease for several years. In the statement, her family said Collins “was so many things to so many people, playing a variety ofroles in her life.”

“A bright, sparky, witty presence on stage and screen,” the family described the versatile actor, whose career began in the 1960s.

Collins was well into her 40s when she starred in “Shirley Valentine,” a witty but disgruntled homemaker who accepts a girlfriend’s offer to travel to Greece to bring much-needed spice back to her life. “Sex for breakfast, sex for dinner, sex for tea and sex for supper,” Shirley proudly declares in the 1989 film, directed by Lewis Gilbert.

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