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Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins : Biography

Stephen Collins has made the name "Rev. Eric Camden" a popular one among TV fans, by starring on WB's outstanding drama series "7th Heaven". On series television, audiences have seen him in Tattingers, Working It Out, with Jane Curtin, Tales of the Gold Monkey and a stint opposite Sela Ward on the final season of the acclaimed drama Sisters. Collins has starred in eight miniseries, including The Rhineman Exchange, Inside the Third Reich, with John Gielgud and Blythe Danner, Chiefs, Hold the Dream and opposite Ann-Margret in The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, for which he earned an Emmy nomination. He was J.F.K. opposite Roma Downey in A Woman Named Jackie, which won the Emmy for Best Miniseries, swept Donna Mills off her feet in Barbara Taylor Bradford's Remember and played Ashley Wilkes in Scarlett. His 15 television movies include The Betty Broderick Story, opposite Meredith Baxter, The Babysitter's Seduction, with Keri Russell, Summer Solstice, with Henry Fonda and Weekend War. He also starred with Stockard Channing in the acclaimed film An Unexpected Family and its sequel An Unexpected Life. Numerous feature films include The First Wives Club, as Diane Keaton's philandering husband, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Brewster's Millions, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (he was, very briefly, captain of The Enterprise), The Promise, with Kathleen Quinlan and the classic All the President's Men. He and his wife, actress Faye Grant, also co-starred in Drive Me Crazy as the parents of Melissa Joan Hart.

A stage veteran, Collins last appeared opposite Blythe Danner in Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He was in the original Broadway production of Michael Weller's Moonchildren with other "unknowns" of the time; James Woods, Christopher Guest and Edward Herrmann. He created roles in original New York productions of Terrence McNally's The Ritz, Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy, with Sigourney Weaver, and A.R. Gurney's The Old Boy. Collins performed at Lincoln Center in the New York Shakespeare Festival's Macbeth as Macduff opposite Christopher Walken, and was directed by Joseph Papp in Twelfth Night. Collins directed a successful regional production of The Old Boy, as well as several of 7th Heaven's highest-rated episodes.

His play Super Sunday was produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and his first novel, Eye Contact, was a national best-seller for Bantam Books. Collins' second thriller, Double Exposure, was published in 1998 and a short story, Ace's Big Entrance, was recently featured in Good Housekeeping. Another short story, Water Hazard, will be out soon in a collection edited by Otto Penzler. For each of the past five years, Collins has contributed a one-act play to a spring marathon at Los Angeles' Playwrights Express at First Stage in Hollywood. Last year, The Gold Label released Stephen Collins, a CD of classic rock 'n' roll with Collins covering songs by Buddy Holly, Carole King, Dion, Rick Nelson and Elvis, among others. Collins also appears live from time to time with The 7th Band, and they're now at work on a new CD. Collins lives with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles. He was born on October 1st in Des Moines, Iowa and raised in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. After graduating from Hastings High School, Stephen went to Amherst College and graduated cum laude. His favorite musicians are Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Brian Wilson, and his favorite movie is "A Christmas Carol" starring Alastair Sim.
Stephen's Favorite Sport Team is baseball ''The New York Mets''.
He played bass guitar and rhytm guitar in Rock 'n' Roll Bands such as (at Amherst College) Tambourine Charlie & The Four Flat Tires, The Naugahyde Revolution, The Flower & Vegetable Show, (at Hastings High) The Housemen, The Mustangs, The Trolls, and now with 7th Band.

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