Jackie Collins

Birth Name:

Jacqueline Jill Collins

Birth Place:

Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom

Profession

Actress, Writer, Producer

After losing friends to AIDS, she began working with organizations such as AIDS Project Los Angeles to help those suffering from the disease
Worked with Face the World to help women's shelters
Briefly worked as a stage singer and appeared alongside a young Des O'Connor on a Lonnie Donegan tour of the UK
Quote: "Girls should always have a career․ You have no power if you don't have a career․"
Quote: "I love the desert because I always have this fantasy about what bodies are buried there, what happened in the old days․"
A number of her novels have been adapted into films and television mini-series
Dozens of her novels have appeared on the bestsellers list of "The New York Times․"
After being expelled from high school, she threw her school uniform into the Thames River
Held both British and American citizenship, receiving the former by birth and the latter in 1960
Her idea of a perfect day was writing all day, then watching Tivo all evening

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