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Carol Burnett

Carol Burnett is an American actress, comedian, singer, and writer whose six-decade career spans television, stage, and film, featuring her iconic role hosting The Carol Burnett Show.

Carol Cleveland

Carol Cleveland (born 1942), English-American actress and comedian, the only significant female performer in Monty Python's Flying Circus and its films; known as the unofficial seventh Python, RADA-trained, appeared in 30 of 45 episodes and all four Python films.

Carol Drinkwater

Carol Drinkwater (born 1948, London) is an Anglo-Irish actress and author, best known as Helen Herriot in the BBC's All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1985) and for her million-selling Olive Farm memoirs set on her Provence olive farm with husband Michel Noll.

Carol Grace

Carol Grace, later Carol Matthau, also known as Carol Saroyan, was an American actress and writer, wife of William Saroyan and then Walter Matthau, who died in 2003.

Carol Kane

Carol Kane (Carolyn Laurie Kane, born 1952, Cleveland) is an American character actress Oscar-nominated for Hester Street, a two-time Emmy winner as Simka on Taxi, known for The Princess Bride, Scrooged, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Carol Lawrence

Carol Lawrence, born Carolina Maria Laraia, is an American dancer and actress who won a Theatre World Award and was nominated for a Tony for West Side Story.

Carol Lynley

Carol Lynley (Carole Ann Jones, 1942–2019), American actress and child model, star of Blue Denim, Bunny Lake Is Missing, and The Poseidon Adventure as singer Nonnie Parry; died 2019 in Pacific Palisades.

Carol Wayne

Carol Wayne (1942–1985), American actress and comedian, the "Matinee Lady" of the Art Fern Tea Time Movie sketches on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, with 101 skit airings, film roles in The Party and Heartbreakers, and a 1985 drowning at Manzanillo, Mexico.

Carol White

Carol White (Carole Joan White, 1943–1991) was an English actress, the "Battersea Bardot", known for Ken Loach's Up the Junction, Cathy Come Home, and Poor Cow (1967).

Carole Ann Ford

Carole Ann Ford (birth name Carole Ann Lillian Higgins) is an English actress who played Susan Foreman, the Doctor's granddaughter, in Doctor Who from 1963 to 1964.

Carole Bouquet

Carole Bouquet (born 1957, Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French actress, Buñuel's Conchita in That Obscure Object of Desire, Bond girl Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only, César winner, and former face of Chanel No 5.

Carole Cole

Carole Cole (1944–2009), also Cookie or Cooke Cole, American actress, eldest daughter of Nat King Cole, CEO of King Cole Partners, and executive producer of Nat King Cole reissues from 1997 to 2009.

Carole Cook

Carole Cook (Mildred Frances Cook, 1924–2023) was an American stage, TV, and film actress, Lucille Ball's protégée, known for The Lucy Show, Hello, Dolly!, and Sixteen Candles.

Carole Lombard

Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters, 1908–1942), American screwball comedy star of Twentieth Century, My Man Godfrey, and To Be or Not to Be, wife of Clark Gable, killed in the 1942 Flight 3 crash after a war bond rally.

Carole Mathews

Carole Mathews, born Jean Deifel, was an American actress who appeared in 33 feature films between 1944 and 1962, including Swamp Women and Tender Is the Night.

Carole Shelley

Carole Shelley (1939-2018), London-born Broadway character actor; original Gwendolyn Pigeon in The Odd Couple on stage, film, and TV; 1979 Tony winner for The Elephant Man; originated Madame Morrible in Wicked; Disney voice roles in The Aristocats, Robin Hood, Hercules.

Caroline Aaron

Caroline Aaron (Caroline Sidney Abady, born 1952, Richmond, Virginia) is an American character actress of Broadway, film, and TV, best known for Shirley Maisel on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Edward Scissorhands.

Caroline Aherne

Caroline Aherne (Caroline Hook), English comedy writer and actress, creator of The Mrs Merton Show and co-creator of The Royle Family, Fast Show performer, Gogglebox narrator; died 2016 aged 52.

Caroline Blakiston

Caroline Blakiston (born 13 February 1933, Chelsea, London) is an English actress, the original Mon Mothma in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Lady Patience Hardacre in Brass, and Aunt Agatha in Poldark (2015–2018).

Caroline Catz

Caroline Catz (Caroline Caplan) is an English actress, director and narrator, born in Manchester, known for Louisa Glasson in Doc Martin, DI roles in Murder in Suburbia and DCI Banks, and her Delia Derbyshire film.

Caroline Cossey

Caroline Cossey, also known as Tula, is an English model born Barry Kenneth Cossey in 1954, an uncredited Bond girl in For Your Eyes Only (1981), outed by News of the World, first transgender Playboy model (1991), and Cossey v UK petitioner.

Caroline Dhavernas

Caroline Dhavernas (born 1978, Montreal) is a Canadian actress known for Wonderfalls, Dr. Alana Bloom on Hannibal, Dr. Mary Harris in Mary Kills People, and her first Quebec-series lead in Ravages.

Caroline Goodall

Caroline Cruice Goodall (born 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter, also Australian-connected, known for Hook, Schindler's List, Cliffhanger, Disclosure, The Princess Diaries, The White Queen, and The Bay of Silence.

Caroline Langrishe

Caroline Langrishe (born 1958) is an English actress known as Charlotte Cavendish in Lovejoy, Georgina Channing in Judge John Deed, and Marilyn Fox in Casualty; trained at Elmhurst Ballet School and active in British theatre since the mid-1970s. Not the Pinter film Langrishe, Go Down.

Caroline Menton

Caroline Menton is an Irish actress from Dublin, trained at RADA and Drama Centre London, known as Yana in Oddity (2024), Doris in All Creatures Great & Small, and Rachel Walsh in The Walsh Sisters (2025).

Caroline O'Neill

Caroline O'Neill, English actress (born 1961, Blackpool, per IMDb; other records say 1958), best known as Win Thursday in Endeavour, Janice Maloney in Queer as Folk, and roles in Happy Valley and The Devil's Hour.

Caroline Quentin

Caroline Quentin (born Caroline Jones, 1960) is an English actress and presenter known for Dorothy in Men Behaving Badly, Maddie Magellan in Jonathan Creek, DCI Janine Lewis in Blue Murder, and presenting Restoration Home.

Caroline Rhea

Caroline Rhea (Caroline Gilchrist Rhea), Canadian stand-up comedian and actress born 1964 in Montreal; played Aunt Hilda on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, hosted The Caroline Rhea Show and The Biggest Loser, voices Linda Flynn-Fletcher on Phineas and Ferb.

Caroline Sunshine

Caroline Sunshine (born 1995) is an American former actress known as Tinka Hessenheffer on Disney Channel's Shake It Up and in Marmaduke, later a Trump White House press assistant and political commentator.

Carolyn Bock

Carolyn Bock is an Australian stage, film, and television actress, VCA graduate, and dancer. Known for Neighbours (Dr. Peggy Newton), City Homicide, co-founding The Shift Theatre in 2009, and co-writing Hallowed Ground.