Michelle Collins

Michelle Collins is best known for her roles on television in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, as Cindy Beale, Coronation Street as Stella Price, and BBC dramas Sunburn and Two Thousand Acres of Sky.
In 1988, Collins was spotted by Eastenders producer Julia Smith, and she was asked to audition for the role of Cindy, who was due to feature in eleven episodes of the soap. Collins excelled in her role. The manipulative, reckless nature of her character was a hit with viewers so her contract was extended and Cindy became a renowned villain in the series.

Most recently Collins joined the cast of Coronation Street, as Stella Price, new landlady of the Rovers Return pub. Collins was quoted saying: “I am honored to be joining the cast of Coronation Street. The show has been part of my life since I was a child so to become a part of it is extremely exciting.”
Collins is involved in charitable causes. She is an ambassador for Oxfam and has visited Brazil, South Africa and Armenia promoting the need for the basic right to education. She also continues to be involved with a variety of fund raising projects for Stonewall and Breakthrough Breast Cancer where she is a spokesperson for a project to recruit 100,000 women to research the causes of breast cancer.
In this video she talks about the hard journey she experienced to get started in acting and how being a professional at all times truly pays off.