Kate Collins (born May 6, 1959) is an American actress.
She is best known for playing the character of Natalie Marlowe on the ABC soap opera All My Children, a role she originated in 1985.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Washington D.C., Collins is the eldest child of astronaut Michael Collins, who served as Command Module Pilot on the historic Apollo 11 mission (the first human Moon landing) in 1969.
She graduated from National Cathedral School studied theater at Northwestern University and graduated in 1981.
After college, she worked in a number of regional theatre groups and appeared in the off-Broadway productions of The Danube, Blood Moon and Clarissa.
In 1990, she starred in the soap opera spoof theatrical play Quiet on the Set.
She married Charles Newell, who is the Artistic Director of the Court Theatre in Chicago, in October 1992.
They have two sons and live in Hyde Park, Chicago.