Janet Collins est née le 7 mars 1917 à La Nouvelle-Orléans, Louisiane, États-Unis. Elle était actrice. Elle est connue pour Flamingo (1942), Carmen (1952) et The Admiral Broadway Revue (1949). Elle est morte le 28 mai 2003 au Texas, États-Unis.
Was the prima ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera House in the early
1950s and one of a very few black women to become prominent in American
classical ballet during the turbulent decades that preceded and
followed the American civil rights movement.
She was the first black prima ballerina to appear at the Metropolitan
Opera House.