Who did Joan Collins play in Dynasty?
JOAN Collins is a TV icon  lighting up screens for over fifty years. The actress, 88, played a starring role in 1980s soap-opera Dynasty  which is set to return for a 5th season. Alamy 2 Joan Collins played Alexis Colby, the ex-wife of oil tycoon Blake Carrington  The original Dynasty ran from 1981 to 1989 and the show was shot at Warner Hollywood Studios in California. It follows the lives of the Carringtons, a wealthy family residing in Denver, Colorado. Joan Collins joined the show in 1981 for its second season. She played Alexis Colby, the ex-wife of oil tycoon Blake Carrington. Much of the show follows Alexis attempts to destroy her ex-husband Blake and undermine his marriage to Krystle. Over the course of the series, she is widowed twice, first by Cecil and then by fourth husband Sean. She came 7th in TV Guides 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time  and in 2016 Rolling Stone ranked her #27 of their 40 Greatest TV Villains of All Time. Joan opened up about her time on the show in an episode of Piers Morgans Life Stories on ITV. The actress claimed that her co-star John Forsythe, who played Blake Carrington, received a much higher salary because he was a man. She told the programme: He was getting more like 25 or $30,000. He also had it in his contract that he always had to have $5,000 an episode more than anybody else in the cast, and that in any publicity that went out about the show, he always had to be front and centre. John Forsythe played the role of Blake Carrington, though he is now played by Grant Show. Elizabeth Gillies, meanwhile, stars as Fallon Carrington in the shows fourth season. Rafael de la Fuente plays Sam Flores and Robert Christopher Riley stars as Michael Culhane.