Carol Ann Burns was an Australian actress, theatre director and patron of the arts, with a career spanning 50 years.
14 Facts About Carol Burns
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Carol Burns worked extensively in theatre and television serials, as well as telemovies and mini-series in Australia and the United Kingdom.
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Carol Burns's mother Mary was a receptionist and her father William was a motor spare parts manager.
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Carol Burns attended Milton State Primary School where her initiation into the world of theatre began with speech and drama classes in 1958.
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Carol Burns acted with Brisbane Arts Theatre and Twelfth Night Theatre, where she was a student of theatre director, Joan Whalley, and tutored within the junior drama workshops, in Brisbane.
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Carol Burns stated in a 2011 interview that she left the show due to very low pay and an increased workload as a result of the more rapid production of episodes.
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Carol Burns stated that it was her decision to be killed off as she did not want to be lured back.
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Carol Burns, an experienced and versatile theatre actress, went to the UK and appeared in numerous West End theatre productions and had roles in TV series such as The Bill, Taggart and Heartbeat.
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Carol Burns appeared in films, particularly during the late 1970s and 1980s, including The Mango Tree, Bad Blood, Starstruck and Strikebound.
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Carol Burns had acted exclusively in the theatre for ten years before film or television, based in Brisbane.
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Carol Burns was in a stage production of Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman by Italian playwright Dario Fo.
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In 2015, Carol Burns played, in what turned out to be her final performance, the lead role of Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days for Queensland Theatre Company.
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Carol Burns directed the Queensland Theatre Company productions of The Road to Mecca and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, as well as her own adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock at Brisbane Arts Theatre.
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Carol Burns was married to Alan Lawrence, a British-born musician and composer, for 36 years.