- Was engaged to TV presenter Mark Speight at the time of her death.
- She was a skilled drummer who played at the Royal Albert Hall.
- Whilst recovering from her car crash, she began dating Mark Speight, and the couple became engaged in Barbados in 2005.
- Collins first appeared on television in the Brechin Productions children's show 'See It Saw It', in which she played See, one of two court jesters in the court of the King, played by Mark Speight.
- In 2001, Collins was cast in a main role in the Channel 4 show "Hollyoaks", but later the same day was involved in a serious car crash. The incident left her with seizures that curtailed her career.
- Mark Speight's mother, Jacqueline, said Ms Collins may have died after taking drugs prescribed for a medical condition. Natasha Collins was hit by a car about seven years ago and reports said she had suffered regular fits ever since.
- On 2 April 2008, the coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure after Collins was found with scalds covering about 60% of her body and a "'very significant' amount of cocaine in her system at the time". Speight had been arrested immediately following Collins's death, but was not charged with any offence.
- At 1:20 pm on 3 January 2008, police were called to the North West London home of Collins and her fiancé, television presenter Mark Speight, where Collins was found dead in a bath. Speight was arrested on suspicion of murder and supplying class A drugs, and was bailed to return to the police station for questioning in early February.
- Speight later committed suicide and his body later found by police on the roof of MacMillan House next to London's Paddington Railway Station on 13 April 2008. He was said to have killed himself because he could not cope with the grief of Collins's death.
- Following a car crash that curtailed her career, she fatally overdosed on cocaine, which Mark Speight, her fiancé, was initially suspected of supplying, but he was not charged. He later committed suicide due to being unable to cope with the grief from her death.
- Trying to break into more adult television, she later appeared in Hallmark/NBC's The Tenth Kingdom and ITV1's Real Women.
- Collins also worked in film and theatre, as well as presenting corporate videos.
- Collins initially worked as a model, and was still represented by Ugly Rage Models at the time of her death.
- Natasha Collins was an English actress and model.
- She also featured in a small number of episodes of the BBC emergency services programme 999 Lifesavers, and one episode of the popular children's television series Chucklevision as the Spanish Princess.
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