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Since the late 1980s, Carroll has had a great deal of voice-over work on animated programs<ref name = "JimHill"/> such as ''[[A Pup Named Scooby Doo]]'', ''[[Galaxy High]]'' and ''[[A Goofy Movie]]''. On TV's ''[[Pound Puppies (1986 TV series)|Pound Puppies]]'', she voiced [[Katrina Stoneheart]]. On two ''[[Garfield]]'' television specials (''[[A Garfield Christmas]]'' and ''[[Garfield's Thanksgiving]]''), she voiced Jon's feisty Grandma.
Since the late 1980s, Carroll has had a great deal of voice-over work on animated programs<ref name = "JimHill"/> such as ''[[A Pup Named Scooby Doo]]'', ''[[Galaxy High]]'' and ''[[A Goofy Movie]]''. On TV's ''[[Pound Puppies (1986 TV series)|Pound Puppies]]'', she voiced [[Katrina Stoneheart]]. On two ''[[Garfield]]'' television specials (''[[A Garfield Christmas]]'' and ''[[Garfield's Thanksgiving]]''), she voiced Jon's feisty Grandma.


Carroll portrayed the sea witch Ursula in The Little Mermaid and in other forms of media, including the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series of video games, TV-series and in various [[Disney theme parks]] attractions and shows. She also voiced Ursula's sister Morgana in ''[[The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea]]''.
Carroll portrayed the sea witch Ursula in The Little Mermaid<ref name = "JimHill"/> and in other forms of media, including the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series of video games, TV-series and in various [[Disney theme parks]] attractions and shows. She also voiced Ursula's sister Morgana in ''[[The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea]]''.


Carroll has also appeared on a variety of game shows, including ''[[Celebrity Sweepstakes]],'' ''[[You Don't Say]]'', ''[[To Tell the Truth]]'', ''[[Password]]'', ''[[I've Got a Secret]]'', and ''[[Hollywood Connection]]''. Taking a break from various villains she's played, her most recent voice over role was the kind and compassionate character of Granny in the re-release of [[Hayao Miyazaki]]'s warm hearted story ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]''.
Carroll has also appeared on a variety of game shows, including ''[[Celebrity Sweepstakes]],'' ''[[You Don't Say]]'', ''[[To Tell the Truth]]'', ''[[Password]]'', ''[[I've Got a Secret]]'', and ''[[Hollywood Connection]]''. Taking a break from various villains she's played, her most recent voice over role was the kind and compassionate character of Granny in the re-release of [[Hayao Miyazaki]]'s warm hearted story ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]''.


She has also had a successful career in the theater, particularly in numerous off-Broadway productions. In 1990, she starred in ''[[The Merry Wives of Windsor]]'' at the [[Shakespeare Theatre Company|Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger]] in the role of [[Sir John Falstaff]], a balding knight with whiskers.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/30/theater/review-theater-pat-carroll-as-falstaff-in-merry-wives-at-folger.html|title=Review/Theater; Pat Carroll as Falstaff in 'Merry Wives' at Folger|last=Rich|first=Frank |date=May 30, 1990|work=New York Times|accessdate=20 January 2011}}</ref>
A member of [[The Actors Studio]], she has also had a successful career in the theater, appearing in numerous plays including productions of ''[[Our Town'' and Sophocles' [[Electra (Sophocles)|Electra]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Simonson|first=Robert|title=Stephen Spinella Joins Claire Bloom & Pat Carroll in NJ Electra Sept. 15|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/40761-Stephen-Spinella-Joins-Claire-Bloom-Pat-Carroll-in-NJ-Electra-Sept-15|publisher=Playbill.Com|accessdate=May 26, 2013|coauthors=David Lefkowitz|date=September 4, 1998}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|title=A Conversation With Pat Carroll at the High Falls Film Festival, May 14, 2009|url=http://thefilmpanelnotetaker.com/a-conversation-with-pat-carroll-at-the-high-falls-film-festival-may-14-2009|publisher=The Film Panel Notetaker|accessdate=May 26, 2013|date=May 21, 2009}}</ref> In 1990, she starred in ''[[The Merry Wives of Windsor]]'' at the [[Shakespeare Theatre Company|Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger]] in the role of [[Sir John Falstaff]], a balding knight with whiskers.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/30/theater/review-theater-pat-carroll-as-falstaff-in-merry-wives-at-folger.html|title=Review/Theater; Pat Carroll as Falstaff in 'Merry Wives' at Folger|last=Rich|first=Frank |date=May 30, 1990|work=New York Times|accessdate=20 January 2011}}</ref>


Drama critic [[Frank Rich]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote: "Her performance is a triumph from start to finish, and, I think, a particularly brave and moving one, with implications that go beyond this one production. Ms. Carroll and Mr. Kahn help revivify the argument that the right actresses can perform some of the great classic roles traditionally denied to women and make them their own. It's not a new argument, to be sure; female Hamlets stretch back into history. But what separates Ms. Carroll's Falstaff from some other similar casting experiments of late is that her performance exists to investigate a character rather than merely as ideological window dressing for a gimmicky production."
Drama critic [[Frank Rich]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote: "Her performance is a triumph from start to finish, and, I think, a particularly brave and moving one, with implications that go beyond this one production. Ms. Carroll and Mr. Kahn help revivify the argument that the right actresses can perform some of the great classic roles traditionally denied to women and make them their own. It's not a new argument, to be sure; female Hamlets stretch back into history. But what separates Ms. Carroll's Falstaff from some other similar casting experiments of late is that her performance exists to investigate a character rather than merely as ideological window dressing for a gimmicky production."

As a member of [[The Actors Studio]] Carroll is currently working in stage productions. Her past work includes not only off-Broadway productions but the Kennedy Center and national tours. In 2005, she played a homeless woman in three episodes of the television series ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]''. In 2007, she became a first lady headmaster of Intercontinental Television in [[Houston, Texas]].


==Personal life==
==Personal life==

Revision as of 22:27, 26 May 2013

Pat Carroll
Carroll in 1972.
Born
Patricia Ann Carroll

(1927-05-05) May 5, 1927 (age 97)
Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1947 – present

Patricia Ann “Pat” Carroll (born May 5, 1927) is an Emmy and Grammy winning American actress who is known for being the voice of Ursula in The Little Mermaid films as well as having a long acting career, including appearances in CBS's The Danny Thomas Show, ABC's Laverne & Shirley, ER, other guest-starring and series-regular roles on American television as well as voice-acting in several cartoon series.

Early life

Carroll was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Kathryn Angela (née Meagher) and Maurice Clifton Carroll.[1] Her family moved to Los Angeles when Pat was five years old. She graduated from Immaculate Heart High School and attended Catholic University of America after enlisting in the US Army as a civilian actress technician.[2]

Career

In 1956, Carroll won an Emmy Award for her work on Caesar's Hour and was a regular on the sitcom Make Room for Daddy. She guest starred in the drama anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. Carroll also appeared on many variety shows of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, such as The Red Buttons Show, The Danny Kaye Show, The Red Skelton Show, and The Carol Burnett Show. In 1965, she co-starred as "Prunella", one of the wicked stepsisters in the 1965 production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical version of Cinderella.

In the late 1970s Carroll's successful one woman show on Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein (by playwright Marty Martin), won several major theater awards,[3] her recorded version won a 1980 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama.[4]

In early 1976, Carroll was cast as Lily, the mother of Shirley Feeney (played by Cindy Williams) in the episode, "Mother Knows Worst" on the hit ABC sitcom, Laverne & Shirley.[5] Her frequent television roles in the 1980s included newspaper owner Hope Stinson on the syndicated Ted Knight Show (the former Too Close for Comfort) during its final season in 1986; and that of Gussie Holt, the mother of Suzanne Somers' lead character in the syndicated sitcom She's the Sheriff (1987–1989).

Since the late 1980s, Carroll has had a great deal of voice-over work on animated programs[5] such as A Pup Named Scooby Doo, Galaxy High and A Goofy Movie. On TV's Pound Puppies, she voiced Katrina Stoneheart. On two Garfield television specials (A Garfield Christmas and Garfield's Thanksgiving), she voiced Jon's feisty Grandma.

Carroll portrayed the sea witch Ursula in The Little Mermaid[5] and in other forms of media, including the Kingdom Hearts series of video games, TV-series and in various Disney theme parks attractions and shows. She also voiced Ursula's sister Morgana in The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea.

Carroll has also appeared on a variety of game shows, including Celebrity Sweepstakes, You Don't Say, To Tell the Truth, Password, I've Got a Secret, and Hollywood Connection. Taking a break from various villains she's played, her most recent voice over role was the kind and compassionate character of Granny in the re-release of Hayao Miyazaki's warm hearted story My Neighbor Totoro.

A member of The Actors Studio, she has also had a successful career in the theater, appearing in numerous plays including productions of [[Our Town and Sophocles' Electra.[6] [7] In 1990, she starred in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger in the role of Sir John Falstaff, a balding knight with whiskers.[8]

Drama critic Frank Rich of The New York Times wrote: "Her performance is a triumph from start to finish, and, I think, a particularly brave and moving one, with implications that go beyond this one production. Ms. Carroll and Mr. Kahn help revivify the argument that the right actresses can perform some of the great classic roles traditionally denied to women and make them their own. It's not a new argument, to be sure; female Hamlets stretch back into history. But what separates Ms. Carroll's Falstaff from some other similar casting experiments of late is that her performance exists to investigate a character rather than merely as ideological window dressing for a gimmicky production."

Personal life

She is the mother of two daughters, Kerry and Tara Karsian. Her only son, Sean Karsian, died on July 30, 2009. She has received honorary degrees from Barry College in Miami, Florida and Siena College in Albany, New York.

Filmography

Television

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Pat Carroll Biography (1927-)". FilmReference.Com/City-Data.Com. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  2. ^ "Pat Carroll". Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center Boston University. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  3. ^ Casselberry Manuel, Diane (January 8, 1981). "Pat Carroll; Gertrude Stein was never a bore". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  4. ^ "1980 Best Spoken Word, Documentary Or Drama". Grammy.Org/The Recording Academy. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  5. ^ a b c Hill, Jim. "Why (For) Pat Carroll wasn't actually Disney's first choice to voice Ursula in "The Little Mermaid"". JimHillMedia. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  6. ^ Simonson, Robert (September 4, 1998). "Stephen Spinella Joins Claire Bloom & Pat Carroll in NJ Electra Sept. 15". Playbill.Com. Retrieved May 26, 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ "A Conversation With Pat Carroll at the High Falls Film Festival, May 14, 2009". The Film Panel Notetaker. May 21, 2009. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  8. ^ Rich, Frank (May 30, 1990). "Review/Theater; Pat Carroll as Falstaff in 'Merry Wives' at Folger". New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2011.

Further reading

  • Young, Jordan R. (1989). Acting Solo: The Art of One-Person Shows. Beverly Hills: Past Times Publishing Co.

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