Pauline Collins

HOLLYWOOD star Pauline Collins was still a struggling actress in Ireland when she first fell pregnant and had to give up her first daughter for adoption.

However, before the fame and fortune, Collins was a struggling actress who after much consideration and debate, decided to give up her first child for adoption. She would return to stage and documentaries every now and then and was eventually awarded an OBE in the 2001 Queen’s Birthday Honours for her services to her craft. Sarah was a regular character in the first two series, and Collins was able to act alongside her then husband John Alderton in the show and later in a spin-off Thomas & Sarah in 1979. Despite her decades in the entertainment spotlight, Collins was able to maintain a decent level of privacy, the memoir a rare insight into her life. She appeared on the West End and made her first film all in the same year in 1965, and even had a role in the now cult-favourite Doctor Who in 1967. HOLLYWOOD star Pauline Collins was still a struggling actress in Ireland when she first fell pregnant and had to give up her first daughter for adoption.