Biography
Born in Hackney, east London, to an English father and Welsh mother in 1962, Collins and her older sister were brought up by their mother.
Collins trained at the Royal Court Activists and Cockpit Youth Theatre from the age of fourteen, and then Kingsway Princeton College where she studied drama and theatre at O/A level.
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