{{Short description|British actress (1905–1989)}} {{about|the actress|other people with the same name|Jean Colin (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:Tommy Trinder and Jean Colin.jpg|thumb|Colin with Tommy Trinder during the making of ''Communal Kitchen: Eating Out With Tommy Trinder'' for the Ministry of Information in 1941]] '''Jean Colin''' (24 March 1905 – 7 March 1989) was an English actress. She began her career on stage in pantomime, musical theatre and operettas.<ref>[http://www.cris.com/~oakapple/gasdisc/mikfilm-program.htm Jean Colin profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517034643/http://www.cris.com/~oakapple/gasdisc/mikfilm-program.htm |date=2008-05-17 }} in ''The Mikado'' Technicolor film programme, 1939</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/nx0/jean-colin|title=Jean Colin | Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}</ref> She appeared in several films beginning in the 1930s.<ref name=bfi/>
Colin was born in Brighton, Sussex and died in London.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f7a4256|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326102555/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f7a4256|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 March 2019|title=Jean Colin|website=BFI}}</ref> In her later years, she lived in a flat near Marble Arch in central London.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}
==Career== Her stage debut was in 1923 in Brighton when Mary Lynn, niece of Ralph Lynn, persuaded her to work up a dancing act with her. Her big chance came when she was given the part originally meant for June in ''The Five O'Clock Girl''. ''The Hate Ship'' was her first film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/jean-colin-p14143/filmography|title=Jean Colin | Movies and Filmography|website=AllMovie}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''The Hate Ship'' (1930) * ''Compromising Daphne'' (1930) * ''Lord Babs'' (1932) * ''Charing Cross Road'' (1935) * ''Such Is Life'' (1936) * ''Stardust'' (1938) * ''The Mikado'' (1939) * ''Laugh It Off'' (1940) * ''Bob's Your Uncle'' (1941) * ''Last Holiday'' (1950) * ''Laxdale Hall'' (1953)
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0171502}}
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