Kate Collins (born May 6, 1959) is an American actress. She is best known for playing the character of Natalie Dillon on the ABC soap opera All My Children, a role she originated in 1985.Born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Washington D.C., Collins is the eldest child of astronaut Michael Collins, who served as Command Module Pilot on the historic Apollo 11 mission (the first Moon landing) in 1969. Kate married husband Charles Newell, who is the Artistic Director of the Court Theatre in Chicago, in October 1992. The couple have two sons together and live in Hyde Park, Chicago.
Janet's not unattractive...she's just neglected herself. That's my definition of her state. She's a fireplug, too, and she's bitter - Janet's carrying a lot of emotional baggage. Janet is very jealous of Natalie and all that Natalie has acquired. You know - sibling rivalry at its very best."- on Janet's introduction to AMC, Soap Opera Weekly, August 20, 1991
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"I was scared to death about doing it, but I was dealing with a great personal life and could afford to put all of my energy into the work. Janet suddenly opened all these doors to acting freedom, the freedom to experiment and play. I began to think about outside work really seriously for the first time in a while." - on taking on a dual role and what led her to leave AMC, Weekly, August 18, 1992.
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I decided right then and there, I would do anything I could to get a soap job. Besides, I like having a job. A routine, a commitment, somewhere I have to be everyday. And I was thinking about the whole 'You're not an artist unless you're a starving artist' thing - and then I thought, 'The hell with that!' Once I decided to go for a soap job and make a commitment to it, I got extremely lucky."- on why she got into soaps, Soap Opera Weekly, August 20, 1991
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Chicago, Illinois [April 2010]
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Raised in Washington, D.C.
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In 1989, during a guest co-hosting stint on Good Morning America (1975), she interviewed her own father, who was a Command Module Pilot on the historic Apollo 11 mission (the first moon landing) in 1969, and she deemed it as her "most difficult" interview she has done.
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