1. Carole Shelley won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in The Elephant Man and received additional nominations for her work on Absurd Person Singular, Stepping Out, and Billy Elliot.
15 Facts About Carole Shelley
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Carole Shelley's father had emigrated to London before World War II.
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Carole Shelley made her Broadway debut as Gwendolyn Pigeon in the original 1965 production of The Odd Couple.
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Carole Shelley reprised the role for the 1968 film version, and the first season of the subsequent television series.
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Carole Shelley received her first Tony Award nomination in 1975 for her performance as "Jane" in Absurd Person Singular.
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Carole Shelley won the 1979 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Mrs Kendal in The Elephant Man, and was nominated for the Tony Award as Featured Actress in a Play in 1987 for her performance in Stepping Out as "Maxine".
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Carole Shelley began appearing in musicals in the late 1990s, with the revivals of Show Boat as Parthy and Cabaret as Fraulein Schneider in 1999.
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In 2003, Carole Shelley debuted the role of Madame Morrible in the original Broadway cast of Wicked, a role which she later reprised in the show's first national touring company in 2005, in the 2006 Chicago production, and in a return Broadway engagement in 2007.
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Carole Shelley played the role of Grandma in the Broadway production of Billy Elliot at the Imperial Theatre, beginning performances in October 2008.
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Carole Shelley was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 2009.
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In 1968 Carole Shelley starred as Gwendolyn Pigeon in the film The Odd Couple.
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Carole Shelley was featured as "Aunt Clara" alongside Nicole Kidman and former Wicked co-star Kristin Chenoweth in the 2005 film Bewitched.
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Carole Shelley lent her voice to several roles in Disney animated films; notably, Amelia Gabble in The Aristocats, Lady Kluck, Maid Marian's sidekick and lady-in-waiting, in Robin Hood, and Lachesis the Fate in Hercules.
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Carole Shelley's final role was a cameo at the beginning of John Mulaney's 2018 comedy special Kid Gorgeous; she played Mulaney's guide around Radio City Music Hall.
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Carole Shelley died of cancer on August 31,2018, at the age of 79 in Manhattan, New York.