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Helena Carroll is a Actor Ecossaise born on 13 november 1928 at Glasgow (United-kingdom)

Helena Carroll

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Birth name Helena Winifred Carroll
Nationality Ecosse
Birth 13 november 1928 at Glasgow (United-kingdom)
Death 31 march 2013 (at 84 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Helena Winifred Carroll (13 November 1928 – 31 March 2013) was a veteran film, television and stage actress. Born to clothing designer Helena Reilly and Abbey Theatre playwright Paul Vincent Carroll, she was the youngest of three sisters. Her elder sisters were Theresa Elizabeth Perez (1924-2001), a classically trained musician and the producer/founder of the People's Pops Concerts in Phoenix, Arizona, and journalist Kathleen Moira Carroll (1927-2007).

Miss Carroll attended Clerkhill Notre Dame High School, a Roman Catholic convent school in Dumbarton. She received her training at the Central School which later became the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art London, appearing in three plays in London's West End and a film, Midnight Episode, by age 20. She made her Broadway debut in Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan. She moved to the U.S. during the 1950s, touring and performing on Broadway and co-founded, with Dermot McNamara, The Irish Players, a repertory theater company in Manhattan.

At the dawn of television, Miss Carroll played the leading role of Nora, in a television production of her father's play, The White Steed (1959 Play of the Week Series), directed by Joe Gisterak. Gisterak directed a 1980 commissioned opera of her father's play, Beauty is Fled, as part of the "Children's Opera Series", which her sister, Theresa Perez founded. The opera was performed at the Phoenix Symphony Hall.

Helena split her stage work between Dublin, London and New York, appearing on Broadway in, among other productions the original production of Oliver! as Mrs. Sowerberry, as well as Pickwick, Design for Living, Waiting in the Wings, and the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton revivals of Private Lives (New York and Los Angeles).

Prompted by friends who had preceded her to Los Angeles, producer Al Simon and casting director Caro Jones (the latter of whom gave Les Moonves, now president of CBS, his first job in the biz), Carroll moved to Los Angeles in the late 1960s and appeared in numerous films and television programs, including John Huston's Academy Award nominated film The Dead, The Friends of Eddie Coyle starring Robert Mitchum, The Jerk, directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin, The Mambo Kings, the Warren Beatty remake of Love Affair, and such television programs as General Hospital, Edge of Night, Loving Couples, Laverne and Shirley, Murder She Wrote, etc.

Biography

Fille de Paul Vincent Carroll, dramaturge originaire d'Irlande du Nord et de Helena Reilly, elle est la benjamine d'une fratrie de trois enfants. Ses deux grandes sœurs sont Theresa Elizabeth Perez (1924-2001) musicienne de formation classique et fondatrice des People's Pops Concerts à Phoenix en Arizona et Kathleen Moira Carroll (1927-2007), journaliste.

Elle effectue sa scolarité au sein de Clerkhill Notre Dame High School, une école catholique de Dumbarton. Pourtant, c'est vers le théâtre qu'elle se tourne en étudiant à la Académie d'art dramatique Douglas Webber à Londres. Elle joue alors dans trois pièces de théâtre au cœur du West End londonien et dans un film, Midnight Episode, âgée de 20 ans.

Helena Carroll déménage aux États-Unis au début des années 1950 et s'établit à New York. Elle fait ses débuts sur la scène américaine à Broadway, dans Tables séparées en 1958 et dans la comédie musicale Oliver! en 1963. Avec le concours d'un certain Dermot McNamara, elle fonde The Irish Players, une compagnie de théâtre ayant comme particularité de présenter des pièces de dramaturges irlandais. À cette époque, sa carrière de comédienne l'amène à voyager à New York, Londres et Dublin. Elle rend hommage à son père dramaturge en jouant dans plusieurs de ses pièces, dont son œuvre la plus connue, Shadow and Substance, écrite en 1937 et traitant des troubles politiques et confessionnels de l'Irlande du début du XX siècle.

Dans les années 1960, Helena Carroll quitte New-York pour Los Angeles après le succès de l'interprétation de la pièce Les Amants terribles, mettant en scène l'actrice Elizabeth Taylor et l'acteur Richard Burton. Le producteur Al Simon et le directeur de casting Caro Jones lui proposent alors des rôles sur le grand écran. Elle fait alors des apparitions dans des films tels que Les Copains d'Eddie Coyle en 1973, The Dead, Un vrai schnock en 1979, Rocky 5, en 1990, Les Mambo Kings en 1992, mais aussi dans des séries télévisées, comme Hôpital central, The Edge of Night, L'Amour à quatre mains, Laverne and Shirley, ou encore Arabesque et Les Anges du bonheur.

Elle meurt à le 31 mars 2013 à Marina Del Rey, près de Los Angeles, âgée de 84 ans.

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Filmography of Helena Carroll (12 films)

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YearNameJobRoles
1997Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's PoorActressMother Superior
1994Love AffairActressDorothy
1992The Mambo KingsActress
1992The Man UpstairsActressMolly
1992The Man UpstairsActressMolly
1990Rocky VActressWoman Drinker
1989Sundown: The Vampire in RetreatActressMadge
1987The DeadActressAunt Kate
1981Ghost StoryActressMrs. Meredith
1980Loving CouplesActressPrudence
1979The JerkActressHester
1973The Friends of Eddie CoyleActressSheila Coyle