 Collins' heightened popularity in Europe did not go unnoticed in America.In 1981 she would receive a job offer from US television which would change the course of her career.In 1981, Collins accepted a role in the second season of the then-struggling soap opera "Dynasty" (1981–89), as Alexis Carrington, the beautiful and vengeful ex-wife of oil tycoon Blake Carrington (John Forsythe).