Lynn Collins

Viola Lynn Collins was born in Houston, Texas, to Patricia Lynn (Campbell) and Phillip Dean Collins. She attended the Juilliard School for Drama and had a great deal of Shakespearean training before being cast as “Portia” in “The Merchant of Venice”. She also played “Ophelia” in a production of “Hamlet” in New York, and was “Juliet” in Peter Hall’s “Romeo and Juliet” at the Ahmanson theatre in Los Angeles.