Person biography:
Collin Wilcox, an American actress, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Highlands, North Carolina. Her parents, Jack H. and Virginia Wilcox, founded the Highlands Community Theatre (now known as the Highlands Playhouse) in 1939, which sparked her interest in theater. She made her acting debut at the theater as a young girl and went on to attend high school in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Collin majored in drama at the University of Tennessee and studied performing at the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, Illinois, and improv at The Compass, where she worked alongside future talents like Mike Nichols, Elaine May, and Shelley Berman. She earned membership with Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio in 1957 and worked there for eight years.
Collin's Broadway debut came in 1958 with "The Day the Money Stopped," and she went on to work with notable actors like Tallulah Bankhead, Geraldine Page, and Ruth Gordon. She appeared in several neurotic Southern plays, including Tennessee Williams' "Camino Real" and "Suddenly, Last Summer."
