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Patricia Ann “Pat” Carroll (born
May 5 1927) is an
Emmy Award-winning
American actress. She has performed in numerous stage productions, but is best known for her role as "Bunny Halper" on
The Danny Thomas Show and as Shirley Feeney's mother on
Laverne and Shirley.
She is also well-known for participating on TV game shows and as the voice of the villainess, Ursula, in
The Little Mermaid. Her most recent appearances were on three episdes of
ER in which she played a bag lady and as
Miep Gies in the film
Freedom Writers.
Hanna-Barbera fans may remember her as the voice of Katrina Stoneheart in the company's
Pound Puppies TV series.
Biography
Early life
Carroll was born in
Shreveport, Louisiana, to Kathryn Angela Meagher and Maurice Clifton Carroll.
Her family moved to
Los Angeles when Pat was five years old. She graduated from
Immaculate Heart High School, an all-girls Catholic school, in Hollywood. For college she attended
Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles (the college closed in 1981) and
Catholic University of America.
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 appeared on many variety shows of the 1950s and 1960s, 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 a TV production of
Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical version of
Cinderella, which starred
Lesley Ann Warren in the title role.
Carroll scored a personal and artistic success in the late 1970s with her one woman show on
Gertrude Stein,
Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein (by playwright Marty Martin), winning several major theater awards, and even a
Grammy in 1981 for her recorded version of the performance.
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 she's done a great deal of voice-over work on animated programs 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.
She portrayed the sea witch Ursula in many forms of media, such as the
Kingdom Hearts series of video games, the
Fantasmic! show at two
Disney theme parks, the spin-off TV series as well as for the puppet version of Ursula in Disneyland's Parade of Dreams and in the
HalloWishes Halloween-themed fireworks spectacular at
Walt Disney World's "Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween" event in the
Magic Kingdom. She also voiced Ursula's sister Morgana in
Little Mermaid II.
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 stunned the theater world with an acclaimed performance in
The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Shakespeare Theater at the Folger playing a male role,
Sir John Falstaff, a balding knight with whiskers.
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. In 2007, she became a first lady headmaster of Intercontinental Television in
Houston, Texas.
Personal life
As a devout
Roman Catholic, her religious views inform her choice of what roles to accept, and in which productions to appear. According to a
Current Biography article, she's a supporter of the Republican Party.
She is the mother of two daughters, Kerry and Tara Karsian, and one son, Sean Karsian, as well as grandmother to Evan Patricia Karsian.
Filmography
Television
Film
Nancy Drew (2007) - Landlady
Freedom Writers (2007) - Miep Gies
Outside Sales (2006) - Mrs. Poole
Mickey's House of Villains (2002) - Ursula (voice)
(2001) - Ursula (voice)
Songcatcher (2000) - Viney Butler
(2000) - Morgana (voice)
A Goofy Movie (1995) - Additional Voices (voice)
The Little Mermaid (1989) - Ursula (voice)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988) - Granny (voice - 2006 Disney re-dub)
The Brothers O'Toole (1973) - Callie Burdyne
With Six You Get Eggroll (1968) - Maxine Scott
Video games
Kingdom Hearts II (2005) - Ursula (voice)
(2004) - Ursula (voice)
Kingdom Hearts (2002) - Ursula (voice)
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